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Allentown Student Activists Prepare to Walkout of Classes on September 28

September 16, 2015 1

Instead of watching their schools die a slow death by defunding and neglect, a group of Allentown students is taking their education to the streets during the week of September 28 – October 2. In […]

PASSHE Budget Ax Falls Again: Mansfield University to Face Loss of 12 Faculty

October 4, 2014 1

On July 30, PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) administrators announced their intentions to deepen the austerity at five state-owned universities: Mansfield, Edinboro, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, and Cheyney. These are the same five universities that claimed “financial […]

Capturing the Corbett Budget Bird: Kudos to Keystone Politics

July 10, 2014 2

Sometimes you don’t even have to try. Huge HT to Keystone Politics for this one. Earlier today, John Geeting published this photo under the title: “#PABudget: The Republican Budget in One Photo.” The Corbett Budget […]

Kutztown University Getting Ready for Retrenchment?

February 5, 2014 1

Kutztown University administrators seem poised to get a jump start on cutting faculty, staff, and programs in the 2014-2015 academic year. This past Friday, department chairs received emails requesting they attend a meeting with the […]

ESU Grad Student Takes on President Marcia Welsh’s OpEd, “Recent Changes to Steer ESU in the Right Direction”

November 18, 2013 3

Editor’s note: On November 13, 2013, ESU President Marcia Welsh wrote a Pocono Record Op-Ed responding to growing resistance to her decision to slash faculty and gut academic programs. Welsh claimed that “While the recent decisions made […]

Downsizing From Academic Renaissance to Trade School: An Open Letter to East Stroudsburg University President, Marcia Welsh

November 7, 2013 0

Editor’s note: For all of our coverage of PASSHE layoffs and cuts click here. Follow #slasshe on Twitter for the latest news and resistance. From the moment that East Stroudsburg Normal School opened in 1893 […]

Kevin Mahoney on the Rick Smith Show: PASSHE’s Beautiful Buildings, Bond Schemes, and Corporatization of Higher Ed

October 23, 2013 0

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Kevin Mahoney on the Rick Smith Show: PASSHE's Beautiful Buildings, Bond Schemes, and Corporatization of Higher Ed

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Last night, Kevin Mahoney was talking about his recent article, “Wall Street on the Susquehanna: PASSHE Bond Scheme Bleeds Education Budget for Beautiful Buildings,” on the Rick Smith Show. Listen to the interview below or […]

Wall Street on the Susquehanna: PASSHE Bond Scheme Bleeds Education Budget for Beautiful Buildings

October 21, 2013 12

This past July, eight of the fourteen PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities sent letters to their faculty and staff warning of the possibility of deep cuts, layoffs, and program elimination (what they […]

PASSHE’s Austerity Magic: Save Your Despair for Better Days

September 19, 2013 3

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PASSHE's Austerity Magic: Save Your Despair for Better Days

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I have a rule when I hear Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) administrators explain the “budget crisis” in the system or at any one of the 14 state-owned universities: the first two reasons […]

Beth MacDaniel, President Clarion-APSCUF on the Rick Smith Show

August 21, 2013 0

Last night, Beth MacDaniel, Chair of the English department and President of the local chapter of APSCUF at Clarion University talked to Rick Smith about plans to cut over 40 jobs and eliminate programs and […]