How will you show up in this decisive moment for PSU?

The Cudd administration released its timeline for PIVOT implementation this week. With “final program classifications” scheduled for mid-February, it leaves administrators little time to crunch all the data so many of us have spent endless uncompensated hours pulling. Following a November Board of Trustees meeting, which saw its public comment cancelled, the meeting shortened, and then cancelled altogether, the Board has changed the time for the January 30th BoT meeting to 9am and removed the public comment sign up from the Board’s website. All of these dynamics impact the degree to which we have meaningful shared governance over decisions that will have immense impacts on our departments, colleagues, students, and the state’s leading access institution. Additionally, some departments, including those of Tenure-Track faculty, are already being informed of the increased course loads if the Cudd administration’s deepest layoffs in PSU history are pushed through. All of these affronts to shared governance come after an April no confidence vote which critiqued the Cudd administration for a lack of shared governance around layoffs in Bridge to the Future 1.0.

Join us in speaking out at the January Board meeting beginning at 8:30am as Trustees enter ASRC and continuing at 10am in Urban Plaza for a teach in following public comment.