Video/Photo Montage from March 28th Rally in Harrisburg

The first major Harrisburg rally in opposition to Gov. Corbett’s budget cuts took place on March 28th.  The rally was spearheaded by students from Shippensburg University and supported by APSCUF.  APSCUF-KU sent four buses filled with students and faculty. Here is APSCUF’s video/photo montage of the event:

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Mahoney and Quinn speak @ April 26th rally

Just one week ago, we were in Harrisburg for the NAACP sponsored, Children’s March to Save PA Public Education.  APSCUF-KU President, Paul Quinn and I were both invited speakers.  Here is the video of our speeches thanks to our state APSCUF office:

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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 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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no compromise on the future of pennsylvania

APSCUF-KU represents:

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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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APSCUF agrees to negotiate wage freeze

Just in from state APSCUF concerning our current contract negotiations: APSCUF Agrees to Negotiate Wage Freeze HARRISBURG – On Sunday, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), the organization representing the 6,000 faculty and coaches at the 14 state-owned universities, agreed in principle to negotiate a one-year wage freeze as called for [...]

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JKast – Paul Quinn on Corbett’s Budget (E016) | Mixcloud – Re-think radio

On Tuesday, shortly after President Cevallos’s “open forum” to discuss the impact of Governor Corbett’s cuts, APSCUF-KU president Paul Quinn appeared on KU Radio’s “JKast.”  Quinn’s interview is later on in the show, but the whole show is worth listening to.  If I can secure an MP3 I will also post just the segment with [...]

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APSCUF-KU President Paul Quinn interview on KUR re: Wisconsin Protests

***updated 2.23.11*** [shortened clip of Quinn interview in .wav ] Earlier today APSCUF-KU President, Paul Quinn was interviewed on Kutztown University radio station, KUR, on the protests in Wisconsin.  This is the first time I’m trying to include audio files on this particular blog, so please let me know if there are any problems listening [...]

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Morning Call: Kutztown U. makes $4.2 million in cuts + Commentary

For readers of the XChange, this article from the Morning Call will come as a surprise–it merely confirms the fact that President Cevallos is playing the hatchet man these days.  And the only guiding principle to his cuts seems to be his “projected budget shortfalls.”  The one “interesting” thing about this article is we finally [...]

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some highlights of last week

As I am slowly going through the 800+ unread emails from this past week, I came across APSCUF-KU president Paul Quinn’s email to faculty, which I thought would be of interest to readers of the xchange. A couple key items in the email have to do with the March 17th, 2010 meeting with APSCUF-KU Meet [...]

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more departments on the chopping block +

And the list just grows.  One of the key questions we posed at today’s Meet and Discuss was if there were any additional departments or programs being considered for retrenchment.  The administration’s answer was: YES. That’s right, Academic Enrichment has been placed in the retrenchment pool.   Here is part of APSCUF-KU President Paul Quinn’s [...]

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Paul Quinn’s letter to faculty concerning today’s budget meeting

Here is Paul Quinn’s summary of what happened at the budget meeting today.  I will also say that Ken Ehrensal has put out the call to all members of Meet and Discuss for a special meeting 0f Meet and Discuss on Monday, March 8th: Fellow Faculty, I am writing you this email to discuss with [...]

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