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December 2016
Executive Committee: President – Ray Feroz; Vice President – Joyce Overly; Secretary – Karen Bolinger; Treasurer – Linda Lillard; Delegates –Ray Feroz, Karen
Bolinger, Barry Sweet; Jonathan Touster, Uraina Pack Alternate Delegates – Nancy Clemente, Ellen Foster, Jennifer May, Karl Sprenger, Lorie Taylor; Coaches
President - Al Modrzejewski ; Coaches Vice President – Sean Esterhuizen; Coaches’ Grievance Chair – Eric Laughlin; Venango Campus – Paul Klenowski; CAP –
Joseph Croskey; DRC – Mary Buchanan; Grievance – Mark Kilwein; Health & Welfare – Marilyn Howe; Legislative – Jonathan Touster; Membership – Rhonda
Clark; Negotiations – Ray Feroz; Nominations & Elections – YooJin Ha; Social Justice – Amy Conner-Love; Public Affairs/Relations – Christopher McCarrick;
Student Liaison – Naomi Bell O’Neil; Rules & Bylaws – Carey Childers; Mobilization Co-Chairs – Dan Clark & Lorie Taylor; State APSCUF Executive Council – Joyce
Overly
The President’s Message…
Dear Colleagues,
As I write this message, APSCUF members are voting on ratification of the
tentative agreement.
It has been an eventful semester. The strike was nearly two months ago and it seems like it was yesterday.
We can be thankful for the positive developments this semester: improved faculty collegiality and
strength, enhanced appreciation for our students, and resolve to see reality as it is and speak truth to
power.
Thank you colleagues for being the best part of working at Clarion
University!
Wishing you peace and joy,
Ray
NOTE: The Clarion APSCUF Office will be closed the following days during the
semester break: Tuesday, December 13th; Wednesday, December 21st thru Tuesday,
January 3rd; Monday, January 16th. The office will reopen on Wednesday, January
4th at 8:00 am.
December, 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
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SPRING 2017 MEETING DATES
(Please mark your calendars!)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC)
(Rhea Conference Room @ 3:30 pm)
Tuesday, January 31
Tuesday, February 14
Tuesday, February 28
Tuesday, March 21
Tuesday, April 4
Tuesday, April 18 (Spring Elections)
Tuesday, May 2
SPRING 2017 MEET & DISCUSS (M&D)
Tuesday, January 17 - Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, January 20 – Meet & Discuss (Rhea)
Friday, February 3 – Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, February 17 Meet & Discuss (Carrier)
Friday, March 24 – Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, March 31 – Meet & Discuss (Rhea)
Thursday, April 13 - Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, April 21 – Meet & Discuss (Carrier)
DEPARTMENTAL REP COUNCIL (DRC)
(Rhea Conference Room @ 3:30 PM)
Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday, March 7
Tuesday, April 11
Legislative Assemblies Spring 2017
*February 9-11, 1017
Wyndham, Gettysburg
*April 27-29, 2017
Toftrees, State College
GENERAL APSCUF & BARGAINING UNIT MEETING is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28, 2017, @
3:30 pm. Location is to be announced. This will also include “Meet the Candidates” forum for the
2017 Spring Elections. Please “pencil in” this meeting on your meeting calendar.
NOTE: Spring Elections will be held on Tuesday, April 18th.
COMING SOON…..SPRING 2017 ELECTIONS!!! GET INVOLVED!!!
Nominating petitions will be arriving in your mailboxes in early February 2017. If you
would like to run for positions on APSCUF Offices and Committees and/or Contractual
Committees in the April election, please check out the upcoming local APSCUF January
2017 Newsletter for election information and consider running for the available positions.
Welcome Aboard New APSCUF Members!!
Sheila Kazar – Biology & Geosciences
Karen Spuck – Education
Cheryl (Brooks) Bowersox – Nursing
Are you registered for the NEW MEMBERS ONLY site? To get yourself registered, go to
www.apscuf.org. (Note that this takes the place of the old Members Forum site.) Here is
the direct link to the registration page: http://www.apscuf.org/membersonly/membershipregistration/ . There you will find all the information on APSCUF’s Special Services such as discounts
on magazines, rental vehicles, amusement parks, Verizon Wireless, etc. etc.
TAX TIP: TAX SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! IF YOU ITEMIZE, PLEASE NOTE
THE FOLLOWING 2016 FEDERAL TAX DEDUCTION FOR UNION DUES OR FAIR SHARE
PAYMENTS: NINETY-ONE (91%) PERCENT OF UNION DUES ARE DEDUCTIBLE WHEN
FILING YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN. NON-MEMBER FAIR SHARE PAYMENTS
EQUATE TO NINETY (90%) PERCENT OF UNION DUES AND ALL OF THESE PAYMENTS
ARE DEDUCTIBLE.
December, 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
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CLARION UNIVERSITY APSCUF 2017 FALL SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications are now available for the Clarion University APSCUF Fall 2017 Scholarship to be awarded to six (6)
Clarion University currently enrolled students. Applications can be picked up at the local APSCUF Office located in
former Rhea Building or at the Venango Campus in Suhr Library and Admissions & Financial Aid office. Or you can
now download the instructions and application from the web at: www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion.
We are asking once again for you to please announce this scholarship to your students in your classes along with
posting this link in each of your D2L course-sites.
In advance, the Scholarship Committee wants to thank you for your assistance. (See page 4)
Simon Aristeguieta (Chair), Todd Lavin & Deborah Ellermeyer
Clarion APSCUF Scholarship Committee
2017 STATE APSCUF SCHOLARSHIP: For Family Members of APSCUF/APSCURF Members Only:
State APSCUF is now accepting applications for their annual scholarship program. The scholarship award of $3,000
will only be presented to one (1) eligible applicant in his/her higher education career in August 2016. An eligible
applicant must be a “family member” of an APSCUF/APSCURF member in good standing or an APSCUF staff
member and must be enrolled at one of the fourteen (14) state-owned universities. Deadline is March 3, 2017.
For more information on eligibility and to download the complete application, go to
http://www.apscuf.org/images/PDFs/students/APSCUFStateScholarshipProgram2017.pdf .
A “HEALTHY U” REMINDER
What is Healthy U? The Healthy U program is a customized plan for
PASSHE employees, spouses and same-sex domestic partners who are
members of the Highmark Indemnity or PPO plan. This program
promotes a phased-in approach to wellness and offers additional voluntary tools and resources to assist in
improving your health. All personal health information you provide as a participant in the program
will be kept strictly confidential and participation is voluntary.
Successful completion of the Healthy U 2016-2017 participation requirements by the program deadline of
May 31, 2017 will allow you to save significant dollars on your healthcare premiums for the
following plan year. Don’t put this off till the last minute. Participate today!
Please remember that participating in Healthy U saves you $$$$ (10%) on your premium. This affects anyone who is enrolled
in the Highmark, PPO or Comp Indemnity Plan. This includes temporary faculty as well that qualify for the health plan and
enroll in the PPO or CI. You should complete Healthy U because you too will pay the additional 10%. Even if you do not know
if you will be rehired in the fall – it has been recommended that you should complete it because if you do get rehired, the
State System will assess the penalty if they were actively employed during the “activity phase”.
A REMINDER to the new Fall 2016 Part-time Temporary Faculty: If you
were a new part-time temp for the fall 206 semester and are returning to Clarion
University for the spring 2017 semester, please contact Jan Walters in the APSCUF
office in January for a PA Faculty Health & Welfare Fund enrollment card. YES,
you do qualify for partial vision and dental coverage for you have fulfilled the obligation of serving one semester
of the previous three semesters. NOTE: THIS IS NO COST TO YOU WHATSOEVER. Just one of the benefits
from APSCUF’s collective bargaining. For detailed coverage for part-time temporary faculty, go to
http://www.pafac.com/ptbenefits.htm.
December 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
3
-NOW ACCEPTINGApplications for Clarion APSCUF Scholarship
To be awarded for Fall Semester 2017
*Applications are available at:
*Clarion Campus: Clarion APSCUF Office, Rhea Building
*Venango Campus: Suhr Library and Admissions & Financial Aid Office
*Or to download the instructions and application, go to: www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 12:00 pm (noon)
Return completed application to the Clarion APSCUF Office,
Rhea Building, Clarion University of PA
Scholarships will be announced on Friday, April 7, 2017
Six (6) $500 scholarships will be awarded to Clarion University students currently enrolled for the Spring
2017 semester, one in each of the following categories:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Child or spouse or parent or domestic partner or their child of a Clarion University APSCUF member
Graduate student in Fall 2017
Senior in Fall 2017
Junior in Fall 2017
Freshman or Sophomore in Fall 2017
At large in Fall 2017
Students will be considered for all categories in which they fit. Order of selection will be as per the above.
Only one (1) scholarship will be awarded to any one (1) student. If there is not a qualified applicant in a
category, the scholarship committee reserves the right to roll that scholarship into the at-large category.
The following criteria will be considered in the selection of the recipients:
Minimum of 3.2 QPA of Clarion University coursework
Participation and leadership in campus and community service organizations
A one page narrative outlining goals and objectives for the future
The scholarship award will be made directly to the university in the name of the student to be applied
toward fees and/or room and board.
NOTE: PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE APSCUF SCHOLARSHIP
ARE INELIGIBLE FOR THIS YEAR’S AWARD.
Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties
December 2016
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December 2016
Executive Committee: President – Ray Feroz; Vice President – Joyce Overly; Secretary – Karen Bolinger; Treasurer – Linda Lillard; Delegates –Ray Feroz, Karen
Bolinger, Barry Sweet; Jonathan Touster, Uraina Pack Alternate Delegates – Nancy Clemente, Ellen Foster, Jennifer May, Karl Sprenger, Lorie Taylor; Coaches
President - Al Modrzejewski ; Coaches Vice President – Sean Esterhuizen; Coaches’ Grievance Chair – Eric Laughlin; Venango Campus – Paul Klenowski; CAP –
Joseph Croskey; DRC – Mary Buchanan; Grievance – Mark Kilwein; Health & Welfare – Marilyn Howe; Legislative – Jonathan Touster; Membership – Rhonda
Clark; Negotiations – Ray Feroz; Nominations & Elections – YooJin Ha; Social Justice – Amy Conner-Love; Public Affairs/Relations – Christopher McCarrick;
Student Liaison – Naomi Bell O’Neil; Rules & Bylaws – Carey Childers; Mobilization Co-Chairs – Dan Clark & Lorie Taylor; State APSCUF Executive Council – Joyce
Overly
The President’s Message…
Dear Colleagues,
As I write this message, APSCUF members are voting on ratification of the
tentative agreement.
It has been an eventful semester. The strike was nearly two months ago and it seems like it was yesterday.
We can be thankful for the positive developments this semester: improved faculty collegiality and
strength, enhanced appreciation for our students, and resolve to see reality as it is and speak truth to
power.
Thank you colleagues for being the best part of working at Clarion
University!
Wishing you peace and joy,
Ray
NOTE: The Clarion APSCUF Office will be closed the following days during the
semester break: Tuesday, December 13th; Wednesday, December 21st thru Tuesday,
January 3rd; Monday, January 16th. The office will reopen on Wednesday, January
4th at 8:00 am.
December, 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
1
SPRING 2017 MEETING DATES
(Please mark your calendars!)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC)
(Rhea Conference Room @ 3:30 pm)
Tuesday, January 31
Tuesday, February 14
Tuesday, February 28
Tuesday, March 21
Tuesday, April 4
Tuesday, April 18 (Spring Elections)
Tuesday, May 2
SPRING 2017 MEET & DISCUSS (M&D)
Tuesday, January 17 - Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, January 20 – Meet & Discuss (Rhea)
Friday, February 3 – Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, February 17 Meet & Discuss (Carrier)
Friday, March 24 – Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, March 31 – Meet & Discuss (Rhea)
Thursday, April 13 - Pre-Meet & Discuss (APSCUF Office)
Friday, April 21 – Meet & Discuss (Carrier)
DEPARTMENTAL REP COUNCIL (DRC)
(Rhea Conference Room @ 3:30 PM)
Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday, March 7
Tuesday, April 11
Legislative Assemblies Spring 2017
*February 9-11, 1017
Wyndham, Gettysburg
*April 27-29, 2017
Toftrees, State College
GENERAL APSCUF & BARGAINING UNIT MEETING is scheduled for Tuesday, March 28, 2017, @
3:30 pm. Location is to be announced. This will also include “Meet the Candidates” forum for the
2017 Spring Elections. Please “pencil in” this meeting on your meeting calendar.
NOTE: Spring Elections will be held on Tuesday, April 18th.
COMING SOON…..SPRING 2017 ELECTIONS!!! GET INVOLVED!!!
Nominating petitions will be arriving in your mailboxes in early February 2017. If you
would like to run for positions on APSCUF Offices and Committees and/or Contractual
Committees in the April election, please check out the upcoming local APSCUF January
2017 Newsletter for election information and consider running for the available positions.
Welcome Aboard New APSCUF Members!!
Sheila Kazar – Biology & Geosciences
Karen Spuck – Education
Cheryl (Brooks) Bowersox – Nursing
Are you registered for the NEW MEMBERS ONLY site? To get yourself registered, go to
www.apscuf.org. (Note that this takes the place of the old Members Forum site.) Here is
the direct link to the registration page: http://www.apscuf.org/membersonly/membershipregistration/ . There you will find all the information on APSCUF’s Special Services such as discounts
on magazines, rental vehicles, amusement parks, Verizon Wireless, etc. etc.
TAX TIP: TAX SEASON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! IF YOU ITEMIZE, PLEASE NOTE
THE FOLLOWING 2016 FEDERAL TAX DEDUCTION FOR UNION DUES OR FAIR SHARE
PAYMENTS: NINETY-ONE (91%) PERCENT OF UNION DUES ARE DEDUCTIBLE WHEN
FILING YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN. NON-MEMBER FAIR SHARE PAYMENTS
EQUATE TO NINETY (90%) PERCENT OF UNION DUES AND ALL OF THESE PAYMENTS
ARE DEDUCTIBLE.
December, 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
2
CLARION UNIVERSITY APSCUF 2017 FALL SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications are now available for the Clarion University APSCUF Fall 2017 Scholarship to be awarded to six (6)
Clarion University currently enrolled students. Applications can be picked up at the local APSCUF Office located in
former Rhea Building or at the Venango Campus in Suhr Library and Admissions & Financial Aid office. Or you can
now download the instructions and application from the web at: www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion.
We are asking once again for you to please announce this scholarship to your students in your classes along with
posting this link in each of your D2L course-sites.
In advance, the Scholarship Committee wants to thank you for your assistance. (See page 4)
Simon Aristeguieta (Chair), Todd Lavin & Deborah Ellermeyer
Clarion APSCUF Scholarship Committee
2017 STATE APSCUF SCHOLARSHIP: For Family Members of APSCUF/APSCURF Members Only:
State APSCUF is now accepting applications for their annual scholarship program. The scholarship award of $3,000
will only be presented to one (1) eligible applicant in his/her higher education career in August 2016. An eligible
applicant must be a “family member” of an APSCUF/APSCURF member in good standing or an APSCUF staff
member and must be enrolled at one of the fourteen (14) state-owned universities. Deadline is March 3, 2017.
For more information on eligibility and to download the complete application, go to
http://www.apscuf.org/images/PDFs/students/APSCUFStateScholarshipProgram2017.pdf .
A “HEALTHY U” REMINDER
What is Healthy U? The Healthy U program is a customized plan for
PASSHE employees, spouses and same-sex domestic partners who are
members of the Highmark Indemnity or PPO plan. This program
promotes a phased-in approach to wellness and offers additional voluntary tools and resources to assist in
improving your health. All personal health information you provide as a participant in the program
will be kept strictly confidential and participation is voluntary.
Successful completion of the Healthy U 2016-2017 participation requirements by the program deadline of
May 31, 2017 will allow you to save significant dollars on your healthcare premiums for the
following plan year. Don’t put this off till the last minute. Participate today!
Please remember that participating in Healthy U saves you $$$$ (10%) on your premium. This affects anyone who is enrolled
in the Highmark, PPO or Comp Indemnity Plan. This includes temporary faculty as well that qualify for the health plan and
enroll in the PPO or CI. You should complete Healthy U because you too will pay the additional 10%. Even if you do not know
if you will be rehired in the fall – it has been recommended that you should complete it because if you do get rehired, the
State System will assess the penalty if they were actively employed during the “activity phase”.
A REMINDER to the new Fall 2016 Part-time Temporary Faculty: If you
were a new part-time temp for the fall 206 semester and are returning to Clarion
University for the spring 2017 semester, please contact Jan Walters in the APSCUF
office in January for a PA Faculty Health & Welfare Fund enrollment card. YES,
you do qualify for partial vision and dental coverage for you have fulfilled the obligation of serving one semester
of the previous three semesters. NOTE: THIS IS NO COST TO YOU WHATSOEVER. Just one of the benefits
from APSCUF’s collective bargaining. For detailed coverage for part-time temporary faculty, go to
http://www.pafac.com/ptbenefits.htm.
December 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
3
-NOW ACCEPTINGApplications for Clarion APSCUF Scholarship
To be awarded for Fall Semester 2017
*Applications are available at:
*Clarion Campus: Clarion APSCUF Office, Rhea Building
*Venango Campus: Suhr Library and Admissions & Financial Aid Office
*Or to download the instructions and application, go to: www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 12:00 pm (noon)
Return completed application to the Clarion APSCUF Office,
Rhea Building, Clarion University of PA
Scholarships will be announced on Friday, April 7, 2017
Six (6) $500 scholarships will be awarded to Clarion University students currently enrolled for the Spring
2017 semester, one in each of the following categories:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Child or spouse or parent or domestic partner or their child of a Clarion University APSCUF member
Graduate student in Fall 2017
Senior in Fall 2017
Junior in Fall 2017
Freshman or Sophomore in Fall 2017
At large in Fall 2017
Students will be considered for all categories in which they fit. Order of selection will be as per the above.
Only one (1) scholarship will be awarded to any one (1) student. If there is not a qualified applicant in a
category, the scholarship committee reserves the right to roll that scholarship into the at-large category.
The following criteria will be considered in the selection of the recipients:
Minimum of 3.2 QPA of Clarion University coursework
Participation and leadership in campus and community service organizations
A one page narrative outlining goals and objectives for the future
The scholarship award will be made directly to the university in the name of the student to be applied
toward fees and/or room and board.
NOTE: PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE APSCUF SCHOLARSHIP
ARE INELIGIBLE FOR THIS YEAR’S AWARD.
Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties
December 2016
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion
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