Faculty members at East Stroudsburg University learned yesterday that some of them may not have jobs in the near future. ESU administrators dropped the bomb at a meeting between the university administration and representatives of the ESU chapter of the…
This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned…
Editor’s Note: After a friend emailed him Raging Chicken Press’s story, “Welcome to Wild West U,” Alan Magee sent us this video to post. He says, “ I made it shortly after the Newtown shootings as a response to NRA efforts…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is a special Earth Day edition of my weekly social issues column, Wanderings. The information is from my latest book, Fracking Pennsylvania, an overall look at the nature and consequences of high-pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. Even…
Editor’s Note: This was originally published yesterday on @ the chalk face. @ the chalk face endeavors to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely progressive perspective. Check out their main blog, their weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio,…
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…
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…
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…
Editor’s Note: This is the first of what I hope to be many cross-posts by Timothy Slekar and other folks @ the chalk face. @ the chalk face endeavors to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely…
