HIGHER ED FACULTY
How Three Professors Use Trigger Warnings
September 06, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Chronicle of Higher Ed reports on how 3 professors use trigger warnings read more >
September 06, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Chronicle of Higher Ed reports on how 3 professors use trigger warnings read more >
August 29, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Summer 2016 Bulletin Board read more >
August 23, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
The ruling overturns one from 2004 that said graduate students who served as teaching or research assistants were still students, and not subject to union rights for which workers are entitled. read more >
August 09, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Peter Stott tells GOP: "Remove my name from any invitations or other materials.” read more >
August 08, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Unfortunately, the news media and other observers often overlook the fact that student debt is a problem with a color and class element, writes Mark Huelsman. read more >
August 05, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"There are more school security officers than counselors in four of the 10 biggest school districts in the country. And whereas spending on corrections increased by 324 percent between 1979 and 2013, that on education rose just 107 percent during the same time." read more >
August 04, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Bernie Sanders’s idea has made its way into Hillary Clinton’s education plan, but private schools are pushing back. read more >
August 03, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“Nobody cared about the buildings,” Sullivan said. “Nobody took ownership.” read more >
August 02, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"Colleges and universities are like businesses that can be improved by hiring administrators who adopt business practices and act like CEOs." read more >
July 29, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“This story is everywhere. Worse than pepper spray. It will fade away, but not for a while. And based on our track record, it's a sure thing we will do more stupid stuff as we try to put it behind us.” read more >
July 28, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"Free tuition" is a simple promise that some researchers, like Sara Goldrick-Rab now at Temple University, believe would motivate more working class students to dream of college and actually make it through. read more >
July 27, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Wiewel will leave after nine years on the job. read more >
July 26, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Even as long-neglected maintenance threatens to further escalate the price of higher education, universities continue to borrow and spend record amounts on new buildings. read more >
July 25, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“We took the strike-authorization vote. When are we going to fight, if not now?” read more >
July 19, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Welcome to PSU fellow organizers, data analysts, seasoned campaigners, and advocates for improved higher education! read more >
July 18, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"Public research universities are being asked to educate more students and effectively prepare them for the workforce and society at the same time they continue to face reduced state and local funding," APLU President Peter McPherson said. read more >
July 14, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“Students’ backgrounds tended to shape what they got out of the course. For minority students, the dialogue did little to reframe their thinking. It did, though, give them an opportunity to trade perspectives and bond with other students, in a room where others looked like them. But for many white students, hearing about their classmates’ experiences upended their assumptions.” read more >
July 13, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"While each school's board of trustees has the authority to hire and fire the presidents and holds public meetings, the presidential council doesn't intend to open its doors to the general public." read more >
July 12, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“College leaders could and should be doing far more to promote the use of free, openly licensed materials, to prevent publishers from treating students ‘like walking cash registers.’” read more >
July 11, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
Universities are discovering that keeping low-income students in school takes more than financial aid. read more >