On Wednesday morning, faculty members at Kutztown University opened their morning email to find a heart-wrenching message from Dr. Amanda Morris, president of the Kutztown chapter of the faculty union, APSCUF. “Good morning, everyone, although […]
In the morning session of APSCUF’s Legislative Assembly meeting, faculty delegates received the unvarnished news about the state of negotiations from the union’s chief negotiator Stuart Davidson. Davidson emphasized that PASSHE’s behavior at the bargaining […]
Faculty union members at the 14 Pennsylvania state-owned universities (PASSHE) have had just about enough. Following three consecutive days of marathon negotiating sessions on Tuesday and more sessions scheduled for Wednesday and beyond, faculty members were showing signs […]
It appears that faculty members working at Pennsylvania’s fourteen university State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) have had just about enough. Negotiations between the faculty union, APSCUF, and PASSHE administrators have gone nowhere since their […]
Editor’s note: Corrected 6:13 PM. See strike-through below Faculty at the fourteen university Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) have been without a contract since June 30, 2015. Despite high-hopes that the election of […]
UPDATED: 2:41 pm, 1/14/16 Earlier today, the Rick Smith Show was named as one of Podbean’s top ten podcasts for 2015 in the News and Politics category. Rick’s Labor History in 2:00 podcast also made it […]
The days of former Governor Tom Corbett’s direct attacks on the 14 universities that make up the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) may be gone, but for many faculty, staff, and students this […]
Yesterday, Pennsylvania’s Auditor General Eugene DePasquale issued a report that should be a clarion call for action concerning the future of the nation’s first historically black university: Cheyney Univesity. The summary of the report began: Auditor […]
Late yesterday afternoon, APSCUF’s state president, Ken Mash, sent a letter to PASSHE Chancellor, Frank Brogan, and PASSHE Board of Governors Chair, Guido Pichini, regarding on-going problems with KU’s Presidential Search process. Mash’s letter began: […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article was posted on the APSCUF-KU XChange blog earlier today. At a special “Emergency Meeting” of APSCUF-KU’s [the faculty union] representative council meeting late Tuesday afternoon, the union’s governing body […]
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