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RAGING MONDAY! This Week's Feature: Whistleblower Lawsuit at West Chester University

RAGING MONDAY! This Week’s Feature: Whistleblower Lawsuit at West Chester University

Kevin Mahoney, Editor Zero at the Raging Chicken Press joins Rick to talk about the lawsuit filed against West Chester University’s former Director of Budget and Financial Planning, Colleen Bradley. The lawsuit alleges that WCU was presenting false budgets to the Commonwealth in order to “fraudulently maintain or increase taxpayer-funded appropriations.” And, it gets better.

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Budgeting "an Art, Not a Science": Whistle-Blower Alleges Fraud and Deception at West Chester University

Budgeting “an Art, Not a Science”: Whistle-Blower Alleges Fraud and Deception at West Chester University

West Chester University’s Director of Budget and Financial Planning, Colleen Bradley, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last Thursday, alleging that she was wrongly terminated for blowing the whistle about the university’s “false and misleading” budgets. The lawsuit alleges that WCU administrators purposely misrepresented the university’s budget in order to increase its funding from the…

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#PABudget: Bloomsburg University President Considers Dropping Controversial "Pay-For-Credit" Tuition Model

#PABudget: Bloomsburg University President Considers Dropping Controversial “Pay-For-Credit” Tuition Model

It was advocacy day for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) on the hill today.  Students, legislators and officials from the 14 State System of Higher Education (SSHE) gathered in the lower rotunda to display their music technology, their robots, drones and what their schools have to offer to the next generation of college students.  The SSHE released an economic report…

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RAGING MONDAY! Kevin Mahoney and Rick Smith Talk about PASSHE's Underhanded Plans to Hike Tuition & the Kick Off to National Adjunct Action Week | February 23, 2015

RAGING MONDAY! Kevin Mahoney and Rick Smith Talk about PASSHE’s Underhanded Plans to Hike Tuition & the Kick Off to National Adjunct Action Week | February 23, 2015

Kevin MahoneyEditor Zero and founder of the Raging Chicken Press lays out the recent plot by University President to raise tuition while not raising tuition.  Both ways the students and their families lose.  Also, it’s National Adjunct Action Week! Today, Temple University Adjuncts took it to the streets to demand the university quit union-busting and let 1,300 adjuncts vote for a union. It was a…

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Right-Wing Activists Lining Up Behind ESU President, Marcia Welsh

Right-Wing Activists Lining Up Behind ESU President, Marcia Welsh

Last week, I published a frustrated tirade about the latest social media blunder of East Stroudsburg University’s president Marcia Welsh. As you know, Welsh tweeted out a picture of her posing with a group of half-clad male students calling themselves “The Hawthorne Hotties.” The Hotties are a group of students who perform an “exotic dance” routine – apparently mimicking scenes from the film Magi…

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#PAGov: Tom Corbett's $140,000 Name Plate

#PAGov: Tom Corbett’s $140,000 Name Plate

I am away from my computer and blogging from my tablet and wireless keyboard so please mind the lack of hyperlinks in this blog…

Last week the Pittsburgh Post Gazette released a bombshell story revealling that Governor Tom Corbett’s former education secretary, Ron Tomalis, is a ghost worker in the Pennslyvainia Department of Education.  The former DOE secretary is being paid $140,000 to…

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Kutztown University's President Lays One More Rotten Egg Before Leaving for Greener Pastures

Kutztown University’s President Lays One More Rotten Egg Before Leaving for Greener Pastures

At a Kutztown University faculty union meeting late Thursday afternoon, local union president, Paul Quinn, shared a letter he sent to the university administration earlier in the day. Quinn was responding to revelations that administrators are projecting an enrollment drop between 2.5% and 4% next year. This news came as a surprise to local union leaders who had been told as recent as a couple of…

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Pennsylvania Senate GOP Using Social Media to Gin Up Support for PASSHE Secession Legislation

Pennsylvania Senate GOP Using Social Media to Gin Up Support for PASSHE Secession Legislation

In order to push for PASSHE secession legislation, the Pennsylvania Senate GOP will be using Twitter, and probably other social media platforms.  The twitter handle that the Senate GOP is Stronger PA Public U, and the give away came from the PA Senate GOP webpage that lays out Senate Bill 1275.  Notice how the the textbooks look so cozy?

Here’s a storify of the Senate Republicans social media…

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