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Indivisible Mayday rally at the courthouse today.

OPEN LETTER: West Chester University Faculty Against PASSHE Consolidation – The Quad The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) was created to provide accessible high quality university education “at the lowest possible cost to the students” of the Commonwealth. Yet the system has suffered ongoing defunding, with cuts totalling more than 30% in just over ten year...

Speak up! Here's how you can submit your feedback about university-consolidation plans. (We've updated this graphic to reflect the State System's dedicated page for public comment: https://www.passhe.edu/publiccomment/Pages/default.aspx)

"Large cuts in staffing, both of faculty and of professional and classified staff in good unionized jobs, constitute the core of the restructuring. The cuts, amounting to 14 percent of overall PASSHE employment, are of a magnitude equivalent to the largest private-sector plant closing and mass layoffs of the previous decade in Pennsylvania."

READ the FULL REPORT on the economic impact of Chancellor Greenstein's consolidation plan here:

https://www.peri.umass.edu/component/k2/item/1439-the-economic-impact-of-the-passhe-employment-reductions?fbclid=IwAR1E98HYizLtZ6d9VgCvLMcwab-GwtL5L1K9Cnj-H5avsFMm9uvPhxBTSek

PERI - The Economic Impact of the PASSHE Employment Reductions Abstract The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) comprises 14 public universities across the state. The PASSHE universities are key...

Faculty & staff colleagues: while the university isn't giving faculty shots outright, the county will be opening up. Also, if you are inclined to get the first possible vaccination, I found it easy to get an appointment for the Johnson&Johnson at a local Giant. Unlike the pharmacy, they don't force you to go through hoops that limit your ability to get an appointment. Rite Aid saw that I wasn't 1a yet (we are all eligible as 1b starting on April 5!) so I couldn't schedule with them until next week. But Giant allowed me to schedule this week, for an appointment next week. FWIW.

State university system chancellor Greenstein would ax his own job if there’s no OK of merger rescue plan Confidence among parents and students in the State System should be tempered with a realistic assessment that this is a system in trouble.

Instead of disbanding PASSHE, Chancellor Greenstein should resign For the better part of the last two years, we have been hearing from PASSHE Chancellor Dan Greenstein that we need to reform the way we manage our Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or increase the state’s funding for it. Yesterday, he publicly offered another solution:...

State university program would offer free education in exchange for staying in Pennsylvania When Edinboro University senior Sam Bohen graduates in May, he’ll bring a wealth of knowledge, lifelong friendships and $40,000 in student debt. “Many students are working our way through college by spending our days in class and our nights on the job so that we can afford rent and books,”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/51OOCu5dJUrLpas51TEJqi?si=r6RmuU87SfOiDzlTqEWhxA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7IT5Yn1zGDH1cYXh38dned

TBD | Was This Google Ethicist Fired for Doing Her Job? - What Next | Daily News and Analysis Recently, one of the world’s leading AI ethics researchers, Timnit Gebru, left Google. Google says she resigned. Timnit says she was fired. In the days since, Timnit’s departure has turned into a public relations crisis for the search giant, prompting its CEO to issue a public apology. What happ...

Find another way to reduce costs at IUP I am disappointed by the Post-Gazette’s Nov. 12 editorial “Necessary Cuts at IUP,” that faculty layoffs at Indiana Universty of Pennsylvania...