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In a letter to the editor published in the Reading Eagle on Wednesday, Kutztown student and president-elect of the Student Government Board, Nick Imbesi, made the following appeal: The negative media coverage of Kutztown University must end. The media day in and day out are slandering the school’s name and ignoring the world-changing accomplishments coming out...
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Just over a week before Kutztown University will welcome the families and friends of soon-to-be graduates, the university has decided to revise a long-standing policy in order to welcome guns onto its 289 acre campus. While the massacre of students and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT is still fresh...
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As Millersville University students prepare to meet and organize against PA Gov. Tom Corbett as their 2013 commencement speaker and his continuing attacks on public education this Wednesday, university administrators seem hell-bent on providing additional fuel for their outrage. It appears that the university did not follow its own policies for choosing this year’s...
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Students at Millersville University return from spring break this week for the last half of the spring 2013 semester and there will be more on their minds than their studies. This Wednesday, March 27, students, faculty, and alumni will meet at 5:00 pm in the Commuter Lounge of the Student Memorial Center (SMC) to...
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Editor’s note: a version of this article was originally posted on the AAUP’s Academe Blog. Academe Blog is a production of Academe magazine, and focuses on issues in higher education. The blog and Academe are published by the American Association of University Professors, but opinions published in them do not necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP. Check out their...
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Editor’s Note: I published a version of this article on AAUP’s Academe Blog earlier today. Check them out and give them some love.  At my monthly department meeting yesterday, the department’s representative to our University Senate gave his report on their last meeting. As part of his report, he told us some of the...
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 Na, Na, Na, Na – Hey, John! Goodbye Today, Thursday, February 28th, Chancellor John Cavanaugh will bid farewell to his stepping-stone job as head of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education after unexpectedly announcing his departure this past December. His announcement came in the middle of the most contentious contract negotiations with the...
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It’s been a little over two weeks since Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett delivered his annual budget address. Corbett’s office signaled in advance that his proposed 2013-2014 budget would not be as draconian as the previous two. I think it would be fair to say that the governor would have to work extraordinarily hard to...
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This past Sunday morning (2/3/13), APSCUF – the union that represents more than 6,000 faculty and coaches in the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) – announced it had reached an agreement on a “framework” for a faculty contract after more than two years of negotiating and 19 months working without a contract....
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A Little Review of APSCUF Negotiations I’ve been teaching at Kutztown University and have been an active member in my faculty union, APSCUF, for over ten years now. As readers of Raging Chicken Press know, APSCUF is in the midst of very contentious, history-making contract negotiations. We have been without a contract for almost...
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