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Posts Tagged ‘ pa budget ’

In Defense of Public Education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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April 1, 2013
Defend Publid Ed YJB Featured

Over the past month, Millersville University has become riled with frustration and anger. The catalyst for this discontent among the students, faculty and alumni can be traced back to 2011. Governor Tom Corbett, newly sworn into office, proposed the most drastic cuts to a state’s public education system in the country. Basic education programs...
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Millersville Students Return from Spring Break to Organize Against Corbett

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March 25, 2013
MU FAIL

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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Cliff Diving – The New Normal for Public Higher Education in Pennsylvania?

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March 14, 2013
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Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted from the PA Students Voice website.  There is an old idiom that: “once is an accident, twice is a trend.”  And with regards to the cliff funding – the proposed “flat funding” of public higher education for a second consecutive year –  of higher education, that idiom is...
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Millersville U Commencement Speaker Controversy: It’s About Self-Respect

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March 13, 2013

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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Gov. Corbett to Give Commencement Address at Millersville University?

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  When Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2011, one of his first orders of business was to propose a 50% cut in funding for the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). By the time the budget was approved, legislators reduced the cut to “only” 20%. In his 2012, budget address Corbett sought...
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The Persistence of Crisis @ Kutztown U: Work Harder or Fight Back

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March 6, 2013
OMG KU

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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PASSHE Chancellor Cavanaugh Hits the Road, Attacks on Public Higher Ed Likely to Continue

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February 28, 2013
PASSHE Heritage FEATURED

 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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Why Support Progressive Media?

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February 25, 2013
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At the end of 2012, Raging Chicken Press launched a new membership campaign to help support and expand our work. We’ve grown rapidly since we launched in July 2011 and we continue to look for ways to expand our reach and help stitch together a progressive media infrastructure in Pennsylvania and beyond. We take...
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Flat? Level?: Greasing Right-Wing Agendas One Sentence at a Time

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February 21, 2013
Level and Bubble Lie FEATURED

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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You’ve Got a Friend in Pennsylvania…Who Works Hard & Doesn’t Have Health Insurance

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February 11, 2013
Let Them Eat Cake

And that’s going to change January 1st, 2014, unless state lawmakers and Governor Corbett get in the way. What’s the deal? Right now, as you probably know if you’ve ever been unemployed, worked at a job that doesn’t come with benefits, or had a loved one in either of these situations, you know it’s extremely hard if not...
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