Monday, June 21, 2021

Petitions couldn't save a popular Pennsylvania state university music professor's job, so his wife is speaking out - Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette

 For 13 years, her husband, Eddie, has taught music at one of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities — that is until Friday, when he was to be laid off from his tenured position at Lock Haven University. “I decided to speak tonight because I’m tired — I’m tired of a lot of the rhetoric,” she said, invoking State System of Higher Education Chancellor Daniel Greenstein and others. “I’m really tired of witnessing the chancellor and upper management referring to my husband as being — and I’m quoting — ‘Excess teaching capacity, part of a headcount reduction and a faculty member needing to be shed to right size the university and the PASSHE system.’ I find this incredibly offensive.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2021/06/04/State-System-of-Higher-Education-Greenstein-APSCUF-faculty-union-jobs-teaching-Pennsylvania-colleges/stories/202106040078