“United We Stand, Underfunded We Fail,” will be the theme for rallies set for Tuesday at PA State System of Higher Education universities across the Commonwealth.
Organized by the local chapters of APSCUF, the organization representing the 6,000 faculty members and coaches at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities, the events are being staged as part of an effort to prevent Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed 54 percent cut to Pennsylvania’s publically owned universities.
“The loss of state funds contained in Gov. Corbett’s budget would have a crushing impact on thousands of Pennsylvania’s working class families,” State APSCUF President Steve Hicks said.
“We stand united with our students, and I encourage everyone to visit, call, or write the members of the General Assembly,” Hicks added. “For the past decade our universities have kept tuition extremely affordable largely by cutting back to the essentials. There just isn’t room to cut more.”
Tuesday’s Schedule--
-- BLOOMSBURG Information Tables, Kehr Union Multipurpose Room, 10:30-2
-- CALIFORNIA Natali Student Union, 11:00 a.m.
-- CHEYNEY Duckery Social Science Building, 9:00 (Information Table)
-- CLARION Gemmell Student Center (outside) 12 noon
-- EAST STROUDSBURG Stroud Hall, 2:00 pm
-- EDINBORO Front of Baron-Forness Library, 12 noon
-- INDIANA Oak Grove – front of Library, 12 noon
-- KUTZTOWN EVENT WAS HELD ON 3/17;
-- LOCK HAVEN Price Auditorium Plaza, 12:30 p.m.
-- MANSFIELD South Hall Student Mall, 11:45 a.m.
-- MILLERSVILLE Student Memorial Center, Multipurpose Room, 4 p.m.
-- SHIPPENSBURG Front of Lehman Library, 11:30 a.m.
-- SLIPPERY ROCK Old Main, 12:30 pm
-- WEST CHESTER Front, Ehringer Gym & Hollinger Annex, 1:15 p.m.
