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Today is statewide Call to Action for Education! Please make certain you contact your state legislators to tell them that you support public education and are distressed at continuing attacks on it in the forms of defunding, anti-union rhetoric, and the push for charters and vouchers. See Education

No words I can utter in a semi-professional public forum. Just read this blog entry, cry, scream, and send messages to the Pittsburgh Opera.  

Kevin Kiley in today’s (May 2) Inside Higher Ed considers the firing of LSU’s President Lombardi, ostensibly for taking stances that were politically contentious–opposing Gov. Bobby Jindhal’s budget-slashing and governance-shifting maneuvers, and so on. There’s so much I’d like to say … Continue rea

Sometimes even the most official officers need to say things that they prefer not to have attached to their offices. [OK, I'm done with that riff!] Since the state APSCUF blog has rules, particularly governing length of posts, I wanted … Continue reading →

Spend 10 minutes of your day on Weds 4/18 making your statement against the proposed budget cuts to West Chester University! Join the  (peaceful) budget action “mob.” Assemble at the arch between the library & Main at approximately 12:40 tomorrow. … Continue reading →

Mike the Mad Biologist is one of my favorite progressive bloggers. He’s a research scientist somewhere in Boston with a strong interest in K-College public education; I’ve been reading him regularly for a couple of years now. In this post … Continue reading →

Not the news I wanted to wake up to on an otherwise pleasant Thurs morning. In today’s Inside Higher Ed, a story about a unionized cadre of part-time instructors (the union is an AFSCME affiliate) at the City Colleges of Chicago who … Continue reading →

I was going to write a post about this yesterday and didn’t. Fortunately, a new post just showed up on the State APSCUF blog that says what I would have anyway. If you aren’t familiar with CFHE (Campaign for the … Continue reading →

[A message from APSCUF-WCU President Lisa Millhous--I just posted it!] Preserving Quality Public Higher Education in PA: Our story so far… [Skip ahead to find out what you can do] On February 7 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett proposed his 2012-13 … Continue reading →

The Daily Local newspaper covered both of our rallies this week. South campus: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20120229/NEWS01/120229563/wcu-students-faculty-members-protest-against-budget-cuts North campus: http://www.dailylocal.com/article/20120301/NEWS01/120309949/1006/hundreds-gather-at-wcu-to