#PASSHE

[toji-fguro]

how much are you planning to drink exactly? :< you're already slurring your words...

Mmm.. thinkin' til I passh out

[dailyterukane]

I get the feeling you like Terukane…just a guess though

passh who, me? nah, could care less about them

[sandwichsakurauchi]

What if in an AU, Taiga and Ami swapped personalities. Where Taiga’s the bratty model and Ami’s the hot headed one picking up her slack while trying to hide the fact that she’s crushing on her.

"Pff-okay, firsht of all, if anyone'sh the brat, it'sh her. Shecondly, model for what? Toys R Us's girl shection? She can already passh for a toddler. Thirdly, you bashically think I'd be like Taiga, jusht it'sh... you know... me. Like... Ahem...

'Oi, are ya gonna sit around on your blob of an ass all day or are you gonna move? Don't make me get you another dozen fast food orders, you bloated mutt... H-Huh? Wha? Like it?! O-Of course I don't like how much of a slobby fatso you've gotten! D-Don't get the wrong idea, buh-buh-buh-baka!!'

...Hff... Like that, right? Pleashe~"

[teddynonstop626]

POV: When the teacher says this isn't for a grade #forward #passhe #pcss #phscedu #ppsd #fypviralシ via TeddyNONSTOP https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe6cRqzOyfOhWcu8op-MBxQ May 20, 2025 at 01:57AM

[valleyledger]

Coalition of Area Community Colleges and PASSHE Universities Benefits Students

BETHLEHEM, PA -Pennsylvania Community Colleges and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) are advancing transfer partnership reforms that will make college more accessible and more affordable for Pennsylvania college students. With the support of Governor Josh Shapiro and a bipartisan coalition of state legislators, Act 69 of 2024 guarantees junior status for community college…

[secondgenerationnerd]

Other than Damian’s pets , Haley, and krypto, what other pets are in your canon

Lucy has Hyenas 😂😂

Oh! Tiffany and Connor adopt a dog the same year they have Ziva! It a little mutt that was saved from a dog fighting ring. He had big patches of his fur missing, but they love it so much. They call him “Patches” or “Passhes” as Zizi calls him

[sillyromantic4ever]

Chapter XXIII: “Unleashing Haran, Part V” from Beneath the Armor, Volume I

Excerpt: "Her lightsaber is a blur, even to Talia. The Force spews from her like a blizzard, coming out of her, and towards her, in every direction. Amidst Passh’s labored breathing and their weapons clashing, her lips curl into a pleased smile. She senses that the slaver is tiring; his swings are becoming desperate while she feels as if she can continue fighting until the next sundown. Her movements are sharp like sleet, numerous and deadly. Like the wisp of a winter wind, her lightsaber skims along Passh’s arms and thighs, and the smell of burnt fabric and skin waft in the air. The slaver hisses at the small wounds."

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28495434/chapters/122692684

[lvsifer]

this is Passh erasure

thinking about what character would pose the biggest threat if given a forklift, it's between Pyrrha and Gideon for me right now

[ragingchicken]

Promises, Promises: Affordable College in Pittsburgh and Across Pennsylvania

Promises, Promises: Affordable College in Pittsburgh and Across Pennsylvania

“Why not free college?”

Sen. Vincent J. Hughes asked this repeatedly when he introduced the Pennsylvania Promise to Pennsylvania’s state legislature earlier this year. If passed, the legislation — introduced as Senate Bill 1111 and House Bill 2444 — would cover college costs for many Pennsylvania residents.

“I’ve heard from far too many college students who are struggling to make ends meet,” said…

[apscufku]

The Future of PASSHE

Consolidation for six Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities is coming closer day by day, with consolidated universities welcoming students as early as Fall of 2022. While consolidation of the selected universities is supposed to benefit the universities and put the PASSHE system on the right track, the impact of consolidation on morale, faculty, and retirements has proven otherwise. With consolidation less than a year away, I fear the future of PASSHE is looking bleak.

Two years ago, PASSHE universities were wrapping up a regular semester, not knowing that their future contained a pandemic full of zoom, hybrid classes, and a whole new teaching environment. Now, professors are still juggling the challenges of teaching during a pandemic while experiencing concern about how university consolidation will impact their futures. Dr. Chris Hallen, the vice president of APSCUF, shared his personal experience as a professor at Bloomsburg, one of the soon-to-be consolidated universities, during the December 1st Board of Governor's Meeting stating, "My colleagues and I wonder if we are doomed to a lifetime of overload, as retired (or retrenched) faculty are not being replaced, and somehow it makes more sense to pay me over twice what they could pay an adjunct for the same course, "My colleagues and I are wondering whether we are next — next to be retrenched as our department’s enrollments drop below a magical, moving-number target." This insight from Hallen exemplifies what it is like to be a professor on a PASSHE campus on the road to consolidation. Professors are not only experiencing uncertainty about the future but worry that their careers are on the line, all while taking on a larger workload to make up for the decreasing faculty numbers at their universities. With falling morale on campus, PASSHE should evaluate if the steps they are taking on the path to consolidation benefit those it affects or only the system's finances, which can also be questioned- but that is a whole extra blog.

In addition to low morale, retirement is on the rise for faculty members at PASSHE universities, and it appears that consolidation could be partly to blame. In the most recent round of retirement incentives offered to PASSHE employees, almost half of the 165 who signed up were from consolidating universities. By accepting the incentive, the participants will retire by the summer of 2022. The retirement incentive itself is a part of State System Chancellor Greenstein's goal to reduce PASSHE's workforce to 2010-11 levels. Knowing that this effort is in place, faculty may be more willing to retire, not knowing what their future could look like in the system. While the effort is to help maintain system efficiency, the impact on remaining faculty could do more harm than good. APSCUF President Dr. Jamie Martin shared that, "When you are losing senior faculty at that rate, it’s a significant loss not only for students but their junior colleagues.” She emphasized that through loss of senior faculty, “You lose mentors, people that can help you navigate all of the tenure promotion processes. For junior colleagues, you lose all of that.” Even though Greenstein is closer to his goal through retirement incentives, it does not mean that it will positively impact the individuals left on campus who are already stretched thin.  

As more information regarding the consolidation comes out, we hope to see concerns of faculty and students addressed. APSCUF will continue to advocate for the students, faculty, and coaches of the PASSHE system. From the ground level, Dr. Hallen speaks for himself and colleagues, "I’m tired of consolidation, and I’m not alone. And we have barely started with hundreds of issues that need resolution." The lack of morale and rapidly increasing retirements may only be the beginning of the consequences of consolidation.

To learn more about recent consolidation developments, visit APSCUF President Dr. Jamie Martin’s interview with Behind the Headlines: https://www.apscuf.org/martin-discusses-unanswered-consolidation-questions-in-interview/

By Erica Bottjer, APSCUF-KU Intern Fall 2021

Sources Referenced

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/11/faculty-retirements-at-pa-state-universities-are-double-the-number-of-a-typical-year.html

https://www.apscuf.org/see-dr-christopher-hallens-remarks-to-the-bog-dec12021/

https://www.passhe.edu/SystemRedesign/Pages/FAQs.aspx

[mrmichael55]

Words and the Ethical Dimension of Power Hello from my study, Another day, more time in front of the computer. More time on the phone.

[allen-howell]

How They Hold Us Down

Do managers in your work environment typically expect employees to compete with each other for scarce rewards (e.g., promotion, advancement, plum assignments, and the like)?  If so, your colleagues in such a climate will be more likely to hinder and obstruct each other than to create an environment where each colleague can find a clear path to individual achievement and advancement. Is such an environment conducive to the bottom line? Many managers seem to think so. In the PASSHE, for example, managers increasingly and systematically sew the seeds of dissension in academic departments across the Commonwealth. For example, by rewarding department chairs of academic departments in their attempts to deny tenure and promotion to an increasing percentage of incoming faculty, the desired outcome will be that a limited number of professors will advance to higher ranks (and higher pay and job security). An increasing percentage of professors thus will systematically be denied tenure and/or promotion and will be bumped off a successful career track. In the worst case, they will leave academia and pay off their exorbitant student loans in a field unrelated to their chosen academic discipline.  Only slightly better is if they are forced into an endless cycle of adjunct assignments. In the best case, they will merely suffer a delay as they move to a new system that encourages and nurtures them, and will allow them to settle down and prosper (academically and otherwise) in one place until retirement.

The practice of systematically discouraging and abusing new tenure track faculty members (ostensibly for the sake of creating a rigorous academic environment) can serve to create a revolving door for many new hires who accept tenure track positions. In a department that is colluding with management to keep an ongoing majority of the faculty members young, poor, and easily controllable, observant new professors may soon realize that it is in their best interests to hamstring their colleagues who have not yet reached the upper rungs of invulnerability. Behaving this way will make new professors seem more rigorous and professional and will show the cronies of management who are at the higher rungs of promotion in their department that they are willing to play ball according to the unspoken ground rules (adjunct faculty also fall into this trap because of their inherently vulnerable positions). PASSHE Deans and Provosts seem to be impressed by such behavior and have shown a propensity to lend their aid on the future paths of such professors to tenure and promotion. By playing the game well, clever new faculty will reap the rewards of having (a) reasonable course loads (with small class sizes and desirable meeting times/locations), (b) reasonable course assignments (to courses topics that they know well and are passionate about), (c) reasonable committee assignments, (d) reasonable related work assignments (accreditation, recruiting, community outreach, and the like), (e) reasonable office size/location, and on and on.

My department chair has baldly stated that it is much more difficult to get positive student evaluations in large classes than in small ones. Even though he said this to me in a conversation where he was commending me for my positive student evaluations, his statement nevertheless demonstrates that he is aware that the path to positive evaluations is steeper for faculty members who are assigned huge classes of non-majors than for those who work primarily with majors in small classes or one-on-one. He also has said that he works actively to keep the ratio of tenured faculty to adjunct faculty as low as possible, ostensibly to limit the likelihood, by keeping expenses low, that any of our tenured faculty members will be retrenched in the future. He has said that the purpose of our huge general education courses is to pay for our smaller more expensive music major courses, particularly for one-on-one studio instruction.

Recent Article 29 retrenchments (furloughs) in the PASSHE have disproportionately affected small cohesive departments. In cohesive departments, everyone is likely to thrive and thus be rewarded and become more expensive for the system as they grow older together. It is seemingly in the best financial interests of the PASSHE if managers can break these departments up (or get rid of them altogether) and create more cutthroat environments for new faculty who will then be more likely to obligingly shuffle through the revolving door of academic “rigor” than to insist on fair treatment. This is not to say that cohesive departments need to protect unproductive colleagues. Rigor is not antithetical to collegiality. The sad fact of the matter is that the bottom line has become the bottom line in an educational environment that increasingly favors managers who possess a bean counter mentality. Educational and human outcomes have taken a back seat to financial outcomes. The losers in this game are not only faculty members (of all ages). The primary losers are the hardworking yet vulnerable students (and their families) who are desperately trying to complete and to pay for an authentic education that includes reasonable class sizes in courses taught by academically and personally fulfilled professors.

[bloomsburgu]

Top honor graduates named for 150th commencement ceremonies

Bloomsburg University will hold its 150th undergraduate commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11. Graduate commencement will be held on Friday, May 10, at 6 p.m. in the Haas Center for the Arts.

A total of 1,550 undergraduates will receive diplomas during the ceremonies at Redman Stadium on upper campus. A clear bag policy is in effect for all the ceremonies.

Top Honor Graduates

The students who earned the highest grade-point average in each college will be recognized during the ceremonies. The top honor graduates are:

College of Education

Nancy Marie Zola, Sugarloaf, Bachelor of Science in education in secondary education with an emphasis in English

College of Liberal Arts

Joshua Lloyd, Muncy, Bachelor of Arts in languages and culture (Spanish); Bachelor of Arts, communication studies

College of Science and Technology

Erin Elizabeth Riley, Birdsboro, Bachelor of Science in speech pathology and audiology

Natalie Grace Smetana, Milford, Bachelor of Science in speech pathology and audiology

Andrew Scott Cross, Benton, Bachelor of Science in biology

Mitchell Alexander Kile, Millville, Bachelor of Science in electronics engineering technology

Zeigler College of Business

Jillian Elizabeth Oley, Elysburg, Bachelor of Science in business administration/management.

Matthew Curtis Swales, Muncy, Bachelor of Science in accounting

The first undergraduate ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. for the 560 graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and the 140 graduates in the College of Education. Daniel Greenstein, chancellor of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will address the graduates.

The second commencement ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. for the 471 graduates of the College of Science and Technology and the 379 graduates of the Zeigler College of Business. Michael Boguski ‘85, CPCU, a director and president of Eastern Alliance and its operating subsidiaries will address the graduates.

Spring Graduation Announcements!

New guidelines for bags allowed at commencement: Bloomsburg University is announcing guidelines for the size and type of bags to be permitted at its 2019 spring commencement ceremonies at both the Haas Center for the Arts and Redman Stadium on May 10 to 11. The guidelines are being instituted to help provide a safer environment for students, family members and guests and to expedite entry into the facilities for the commencement ceremonies.

The guidelines limit the size and type of bags that can be brought into the venues. These guidelines do not change the items individuals may bring, but restricts the type of bag used to carry items. Small clutches and wallets are permissible per the guidelines outlined below. Larger bags must be clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and cannot exceed 12 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches. Clear one-gallon plastic freezer bags (Ziploc bag or similar) are also permitted.

Lightstreet Road traffic detour through Friday, May 17: A portion of Lightstreet Road will be closed from Monday, April 29 at 7 a.m. until May 17 for the installation of the new pedestrian footbridge which will make it safer for our students to access campus from Honeysuckle and the other housing complexes. Work will be performed seven days a week until completed. A detour will be in effect for those traveling from the south. Traffic will be detoured by turning right at the light by the Town Hall, remaining on Route 11, heading along the river several miles and then turning left onto Central Road meeting PA-487 adjacent to I-80. Access from I-80 to the new intersection at the main campus entrance and McCormick parking lot entrance is unaffected.

Weather Conditions: Commencement is a rain or shine event. If the weather is a concern, the university may decide to delay the ceremonies or move them to Sunday, May 12. You will be notified of a change; otherwise, the ceremonies will continue as planned.

Undergraduate Commencement

We want your commencement to be a dignified and memorable event that you will remember with pride and joy. To help accomplish this, please familiarize yourself with these instructions, as there is no rehearsal.

Assembly and Processional

10 a.m. Ceremony - College of Education and College of Liberal Arts

9 a.m. Graduates are expected to arrive at Nelson Field House Gymnasium

9:30 a.m. Graduates begin to line-up

10 a.m. Platform party, faculty, graduates process

3 p.m. Ceremony - Zeigler College of Business and College of Science and Technology

2 p.m. Graduates are expected to arrive at Nelson Field House Gymnasium

2:30 p.m. Graduates begin to line-up

3 p.m. Platform party, faculty, graduates process

Seating: The Marshals will lead you to Redman Stadium and direct you to your seats. Move into your row and fill all seats. Gentlemen, remove your mortarboards during the national anthem, invocation, alma mater, and benediction.

Tassels: Position your tassel on the right side of your mortarboard. You will be instructed to shift it to the left side during the ceremony.

Diploma Presentation: During the ceremony graduates will be directed by a university marshal on where to stand and when to walk to the stage to receive the diploma cover (The actual diploma will be mailed after degrees are granted). When graduates proceed to the stage, the color-coded index card is given to the reader who will announce the name and honor distinction of the graduate, if appropriate. Graduates will cross the stage, and receive congratulations from various university members and will be presented the diploma cover.

After exiting the stage, proceed back to the graduate seating area. Graduates are to remain in their seats for the entire program.

Photographs at Commencement: Family and guests are not permitted to approach the stage to photograph graduates. Island Photography will email proofs and cost to purchase the photographs of graduates that will be taken as the diploma cover is received and another off stage posed photo. Payment in advance is not necessary in order to view proofs. If you do not receive your proofs or have questions, contact Island Photography at 1-800-869-0908 for assistance.

The Obiter Yearbook: Summer 2018, Fall 2018, December 2018 and Spring 2019 graduates will appear in the same yearbook (based on official graduation). Pictures must be taken and submitted during this time period in order to appear in the yearbook that they will receive (based on official graduation). There is no sitting fee charged and the background color will be tan. Suggested attire is for men is a suit and for women is a blouse (business attire).

Questions: Should you have any questions concerning participation in the ceremony, please contact gradquestions@bloomu.edu.

[valleyledger]

Schweyer issues statement on PASSHE Chancellor stepping down

HARRISBURG, July 23 – Pennsylvania House Education Committee Majority Chairman, Peter Schweyer, today issued the following statement on the announcement of PASSHE Chancellor Dr. Dan Greenstein stepping down. “Since becoming the Chair of the House Education Committee, Dr. Greenstein and I have enjoyed a positive working relationship working on behalf of the students, faculty and the member…

[boobytrapzap]

The Pennsylvania state schools have been making terrible decisions lately but West Chester University of Pennsylvania is particularly cruel.

[sillyromantic4ever]

Chapter XXII: “Unleashing Haran, Part IV” from Beneath the Armor, Volume I

Excerpt: "Din still dislikes the reckless tactic of meeting Passh on his terms rather than theirs. Even though Talia may have forced the Trandoshan to retreat to the Command Center, this does not change the fact that everyone knows there is only one entrance for the Mandalorians to use. It all seems too predictable—which is something he avoids when doing any kind of bounty mission.

"Lifting his gaze just a little, he watches as Talia enters the passenger lift. She is so determined, and almost stubborn, about rushing into meeting Passh. Since he already voiced his opinion against this plan more than once, he knows he needs to be careful when he brings up the subject for—what he hopes will be—the final time."

Read here: archiveofourown.org/works/28495434/chapters/122141779