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Gutting Public Higher Education
In a meeting on October 22, APSCUF, the faculty union, once again rejected the contract proposed by PASSHE, which seeks to gut benefits and increase workloads without fair compensation. The proposal calls for a dramatic decrease – 35% […]
And the Winner Is…
Want to know who is going to win this year’s presidential election? I can tell you. In fact, I am so confident that I am correct, I would stake everything I own on this prediction. […]
You Can Tell A Lot About A College By The Way It Treats Its Adjuncts
To borrow a turn of phrase, you can tell a lot about a college by the way it treats its adjuncts. If you read the PASSHE Negotiation Objectives recently distributed to PASSHE faculty via email […]
Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education – That’s What It’s All About
Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates a new Raging Chicken Press series by the same name: Smashing Apples. This series will focus on the ongoing attacks against public education from kindergarten through higher education both in […]
Occupy My Foreclosure
For millions of Americans, owning a home is the grandest symbol of having accomplished the illusion of the “American Dream”. Being a homeowner signifies success, financial stability and responsibility. I too had the indoctrinated belief […]
Pennsylvania Higher Education: Privatized and Sold-Out by House and Senate
In an attempt to look for funding for public higher education, the Pennsylvania House and Senate voted – in a spineless bi-partisan effort – to submit and sell-out the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) […]
Should Penn State Lose Accrediation for Marcellus Shale Advocacy?
If you are a major university and research institution and if members of your staff are blatant advocates for a genocidal, profiteering, propaganda mongering industry, your institution deserves to lose all accreditation – at least […]
An Appeal for Clemency for Terrance Williams: URGENT
Currently, Terrance “Terry” Williams is awaiting his death, scheduled for less than a month from today. On October 3, 2012, Terry will be executed by the state of Pennsylvania unless Governor Tom Corbett and the […]
Rick Smith Files | Sherri Magunson of the Harrisburg Education Association on Defunding Harrisburg City Schools to Make Room for Profiteers
Full audio | August 27, 2012 Rick Smith Show [Rick Smith]: Again you go back to what are critical government programs that our governor thinks of? Tax cuts for wealthy corporations? Handouts to the cracker? […]