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Comment on Our APSCUF-KU brother Kevin Mahoney on the tentative agreement by sethkahn

sethkahn — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:24:02 +0000

I think you nailed what this is about. Nobody is thrilled with the economics of the package; we played defense. I hope everybody will commit to spending every penny they can in 2014 to send every anti-higher-ed legislator and Governor Frackenstein out the door. If they’re going to be shills for private industry, let private industry sign their paychecks too. In the meantime, we’ve demonstrated an ability to stand our ground on educational quality and care for the system that we hadn’t before–not that we hadn’t thought it or believed it, but the way we demonstrated it this time was different and, I hope, the launch of something really profoundly important in PA

Comment on Our APSCUF-KU brother Kevin Mahoney on the tentative agreement by Kevin Mahoney

Kevin Mahoney — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:14:58 +0000

Thanks for the shout out, brother!

Comment on Some negotiations basics for students by Wanko

Wanko — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:53:51 +0000

Can you let us know the source of your information, Wesley? Because otherwise, all we have from you is unsubstatiated claims and insults, neither of which helps the conversation on the issues. And I know I speak for all of us working hard fro our students when I say that a strike is the last resort.

Comment on Some negotiations basics for students by Wesley Thomas

Wesley Thomas — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:50:15 +0000

He has been an unprofessional slob . If you believe Mr. Hicks , you have been lied to. Both sides have made proposals but you only get one side of the story. As a victim of the Apscuf central office stupidity
I can assure you that you will get very little. The members will posture and threaten but will never strike. As long as Apscuf protects the most incompetent professors, the system will continue to be mediocre

Comment on Some negotiations basics for students by sethkahn

sethkahn — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:08:09 +0000

By all accounts but this one, Stewart has been an outstanding chief negotiator. Our side has had substantive and reasonable proposals on the table for two years. PASSHE hasn’t. Some people might not like Stewart’s style, but to call him a “moron” is out of line.

Comment on Some negotiations basics for students by Wesley thomas

Wesley thomas — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:14:32 +0000

The video saying the negotiation delays are solely te fault of the Chancellors is ridiculously misleading. Your own chief negotiator stalled and acted like a moron

Comment on Some negotiations basics for students by Kevin Mahoney

Kevin Mahoney — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:34:57 +0000

Reblogged this on APSCUF-KU xchange and commented: More faculty speaking out on their frustration with PASSHE's negotiations strategy.

Comment on I don’t want to strike, but I will — a faculty perspective by sethkahn

sethkahn — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:37:05 +0000

Molly, although we can’t say for sure whether we’ll have to strike, you can rest assured two things: (1) it’s a last resort for us, and we’ll do everything we can to avoid it short of damaging the institution by caving in to badly thought-out demands; and (2) if it happens, it won’t be sudden and unannounced. We’re professional educators because first and foremost we’re committed to students; that’s why we come to work. Even if a strike has to happen, we will always work to minimize its impact on you while making our point as strongly as we can to PASSHE that they’re not doing their part.

Comment on I don’t want to strike, but I will — a faculty perspective by Molly

Molly — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:29:51 +0000

As a student, I just want to know what except. It is the profressors right to what they believe is best for them. But for us students we need to be informed soon on whether we have class or need to be looking for jobs for the spring .

Comment on I don’t want to strike, but I will — a faculty perspective by sethkahn

sethkahn — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:39:00 +0000

The position of “That’s just the way it is” is unhelpful and, I think, incorrect. Regarding distance ed, if PASSHE wants to do it because it’s cheaper, they’re doing it wrong. Quality equipment, training, pedagogical and curricular support for faculty AND STUDENTS, etc, is rather expensive. To try to make it a cost-cutting measure automatically and unequivocally makes it a quality-slashing measure, and anybody who supports that needs not to be an education professional.

And the willingness to pin support of PASSHE’s propaganda to an imagined future blamed on Obamacare? There’s not one reputable source, analysis, or study to support the claim that everybody’s, or anybody’s, health care costs will go up under the new law. There’s a lot of blind assertion, and a lot of guesswork (some of which might turn out to be true, but there’s no way to know yet).

There’s plenty of money in PASSHE to support reasonable health care for faculty, who work very hard to earn that benefit–and who are much better able to support the students and the system because we get it–and to support quality distance education to the extent that it’s consistent with PASSHE’s mission instead of overriding the mission based on bad accounting. We all know this.