selected news coverage from this week’s rallies

As readers of the XChange are aware, I’ve been a little behind posting news coverage from this past week’s rallies.  It’s been quite a week and I don’t see things slowing down in the foreseeable future.  Here’s some selected coverage of this week’s rallies. Monday, March 28th “United We Stand, Underfunded We Fail” rally in [...]

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#PaEdCuts: video from March 28, 2011 rally in Harrisburg

On March 28, 2011 1,000 plus converged on our state capitol in Harrisburg carrying the message, “United We Stand, Underfunded We Fail.”  Here are three more videos from that rally. For more videos from the rally and from rallies across the entire State System of Higher Education, check out APSCUF’s YouTube channel: APSCUF President, Steve [...]

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#PaEdCuts: video of March 29, 2011 rally @ KU

There was a lot of media at Tuesday’s rally to Defend Kutztown University and resist Gov. Corbett’s cuts to education.  Here is some video of the rally.  There were some other speakers, including APSCUF-KU President Paul Quinn, KU Provost Carlos Vargas-Aburto, and Rick Smith of the Rick Smith Show, but I don’t have those videos [...]

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#PaEdCuts central: check out Rick Smith Show coverage of budget cuts

As readers of the XChange know, I’ve been on the Rick Smith Show a couple of times now.  Rick’s show is pretty much the strongest voice out there right now covering the resistance to draconian budget cuts in PA and around the nation.  Rick was the ONLY radio show, for example, to broadcast from inside [...]

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It Doesn’t Pay to be Modest

If there’s one thing the education and public services budget cuts over these last few years as taught me, it’s that it doesn’t pay to be modest; in fact it will cost you in the end. Libraries have been dealing with extreme budget cuts for some time now, and they’ve admitted one of the major [...]

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Speak Out & Write Out

Here’s an opportunity  to write and publish on the relationships between quality education and the underfunded,  casualized labor system in higher education. The journal Open Words: Access & English Studies has put out a Call for Papers for a special issue on contingent labor and educational access. (Full disclosure: I am one of the three [...]

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Rally to Defend Kutztown University

Please join us today on the Schaeffer Auditorium Lawn any time between 11am through 1pm. KU faculty, staff and students, as well as concerned Kutztown residents, will hold a rally to protest the $26 million dollar cut the university will suffer if the Governor Corbett’s budget-attack passes. Tuition could increase by as much as 33%! [...]

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The Young Turks put PA education cuts front and center

You can’t understate the critical importance of doing your research.  Now, if you cut funds to education and students don’t learn how to do critical research, then they’ll never be able to do what The Young Turks do here:

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united rabble rousers: this is our house!

Rick Smith joined on the steps of the capitol and reminded everyone: “if you’re not seated at the table, you’re on the menu.” Whose house? Our house!!!! Pics of today’s really by Brett Banditelli from the Rick Smith Show:

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no compromise on the future of pennsylvania

APSCUF-KU represents:

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Inside Higher Ed: NY State Budget Deal Announced, Education Cuts and Performance Funding

Despite the protests in Albany, Cuomo moves to cut education and make schools compete for state funds. Budget Deal in New York Includes Cuts New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders on Sunday announced a budget deal that appears likely to include significant cuts to the City University of New York and State [...]

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News: Wisconsin Gets Weirder – Inside Higher Ed

If you haven’t been following this story, you should.  If it was not enough for Wisconsin Gov. Walker to underhandedly strip collective bargaining rights from public employee unions, his operatives are now going after faculty members — one noted historian at UW-Madison in particular, William Cronon — who have sought to critique the Governor’s actions. [...]

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showing up is half the battle: GET ON THE BUS

A few hours from now (yes, it’s 3am), four buses will be leaving Kutztown University for a rally in Harrisburg against Gov. Corbett’s draconian cuts to public education in Pennsylvania, PASSHE in particular.  You can follow my live tweeting during the rally at @kuxchange.  I would encourage anyone who is attending today’s rally or commenting [...]

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Corbett’s education cuts fight brain drain with lobotomy – Local Columns – GoErie.com/Erie Times-News

Excellent editorial by Edinboro professor, John Bavaro: For Edinboro, other regional state institutions, such as Penn State Behrend, and for other institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the task of attracting top talent — administrators, professors and students — requires that we offer a competitive product. But how can we do that [...]

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EDUSolidarity

VERY COOL project.  I wish I had come across this sooner.  On Tuesday, March 22nd, teachers posted their stories under the topic “Why Teachers Like Us Support Unions.”  Just some great stuff. EDUSolidarity.

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“students hold their fate in their own hands”

Over the past week or so, there has been renewed attention to the ways in which Pennsylvania students — students in PASSHE and the state-related universities (Temple, Lincoln, Pitt, and Penn State) — have mobilized against Gov. Corbett’s cuts.  In my conversations with some of the student organizers at KU and across the state, it [...]

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KU Keystone lead: “Corbett Cuts, Universities Bleed”

Kutztown University’s Student Newspaper The Keystone 3-24-11 Here’s the lead article by Matt Keefer: Possible Budget Cuts Spring KU to Action    

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A Guide to the Governor’s Proposed Budget Cuts

Kutztown Univesity’s Rohrbach Library now has a guide that can help you understand what’s happening with the proposed budget cuts. In an age where everyone wants to turn to Google to provide them with scattered information that is not always reliable, the Rohrbach Library is doing a service to everyone in the Commonwealth who wants [...]

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Pa. State System of Higher Education Chancellor gets a sympathetic ear in pleas to trim Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed funding cuts | PennLive.com

Harrisburg’s Patriot-News on yesterday’s hearings. Pa. State System of Higher Education Chancellor gets a sympathetic ear in pleas to trim Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed funding cuts | PennLive.com.

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Morning Call article on PASSHE state appropriation hearings

I am hoping that I will be able to post segments from the hearings.  PCN broadcast the hearings live…Haven’t seen video up on their web site yet.  In the meantime, here’s a little breakdown of yesterday’s hearings. Senators sympathetic to colleges’ plight

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