Phone: (814) 227-2420

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Executive Committee: President – Joyce Overly; Vice President – Mark Kilwein; Secretary – Christopher McCarrick; Treasurer – Xiaofeng Li; Delegates
–Joyce Overly, Jennifer May, Annette Rosati, Barry Sweet, Lorie Taylor; Alternate Delegates – Ellen Foster, Jonathan Touster, Cristin Ketley, Nripendra
Singh, Karl Sprenger; Coaches President – t/b/d; Coaches Vice President – Matt Hanhold; Coaches Alternate – Keith Ferraro; Coaches’ Grievance Chair –
Eric Laughlin; Venango Campus Rep – Renee Bloom; CAP – Joseph Croskey; DRC – Mary Buchanan; Grievance – Mark Kilwein; Health & Welfare – Amy
Shannonhouse; Legislative – Jonathan Touster; Membership – Paul Klenowski; Negotiations – Joyce Overly; Nominations & Elections – Rachel
Newbury; Social Justice – Cahndice Matthews; Public Affairs/Relations – Christopher McCarrick; Student Liaison – Marc Sanko; Rules & Bylaws – Jamie
Phillips; Mobilization Co-Chairs – Jackie Knaust & Andy Lingwall; State Adjunct Faculty Committee – Natasha Dias, Sheila Kazar; State APSCUF Executive
Council – Joyce Overly
*Faculty Meet & Discuss Team: Joyce Overly, Barry Sweet, Adam Roberts, Mark Kilwein, Jennifer May, Mary Buchanan, Chris McCarrick (rec. sec.)
*Coaches Meet & Discus Team: Matt Hanhold, Keith Ferraro, Eric Laughlin, Joyce Overly & Mark Kilwein

The President’s Message…
Dear APSCUF Colleagues,
Happy New Year! I hope the beginning of the Spring 2022 semester finds you healthy and rested.
I feel like a broken record when I give updates on the issues that APSCUF is currently working on.
COVID and consolidation. Consolidation and COVID. Remember when we had time and energy to
imagine and discuss creative ways to help our students learn and grow? To immerse ourselves in scholarly work? To
have a long chat with a student or colleague? I hope that when the pandemic eases and the work of consolidation is
finished, we can again find the joy that drew us to this profession.
With respect to COVID-19, I encourage everyone to refer to the two emails with revised guidelines that came out on
ALL-L this week. If you have questions that aren’t answered in those documents, please share them with your DRC
rep or me. I already have a few questions to bring up at the next Meet & Discuss.
Developments with consolidation slowed over the winter break but are still moving along. All Penn West
departments have now elected a department chair and are at various stages of establishing departmental
committees and making decisions about how the department will function. The Penn West Interim Curriculum
Committee (ICC) has begun meeting. As required by the side letter to Article 31, the ICC will first “develop interim
processes and procedures for recommending curricular action.” These processes and procedures must then be
approved at Local and State Meet and Discuss before any curricular decisions can take place. Clarion’s
representatives on the ICC are Barry Sweet (Social Sciences), Marc Sanko (Social Sciences), David Lott (Biology &
Geosciences), YooJin Ha (Library Science), Lacey Fulton (Communication) and Dan Shifflet (Chemistry, Mathematics,
and Physics) and I have confidence that they will represent Clarion well.
The three Penn West Chapter Presidents, Sam Claster (Edinboro), Craig Smith (California) and I, met with President
Pehrsson in late November and we have monthly meetings scheduled for this semester. At these meetings we share
concerns and ask questions that we’ve been unable to get resolved through other routes.
As always, if you have questions or concerns that you think APSCUF can help with, please reach out to your rep on
DRC, to our office manager, Jan Walters, or to me directly. Good luck next week!
In solidarity,

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SPRING 2022 MEETINGS
(Please mark your calendars!)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC) @ 3:30 pm
Tuesday, January 18
Tuesday, February 1
Tuesday, February 15
Tuesday, March 1
Tuesday, March 22
Tuesday, April 5
Tuesday, April 19
DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL @ 3:30 pm
Tuesday, January 25
Tuesday, February 8
Tuesday, March 8
Tuesday, April 12
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
February 18, 2022 (Zoom @ 10:00 am)
April 7-8, 2022 (Sheraton, Harrisburg)

MEET & DISCUSS @ 2:30 pm
Friday, January 28 – Pre-Meet & Discuss
Friday, February 11 - Meet & Discuss (3:30pm)
Friday, February 25 – Pre-Meet & Discuss
Friday, March 4 – Meet & Discuss
Friday, March 25 – Pre-Meet & Discuss
Friday, April 1 - Meet & Discuss
Friday, April 15 – Pre-Meet & Discuss
Friday, April 22 – Meet & Discuss
Friday, May 13 - Pre-Meet & Discuss
Friday, May 20 – Meet & Discuss
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS, ELECTIONS & GATHERINGS
*General Membership Mtg/Meet the Candidate Forum Tuesday, March 29, 2022 @ 3:30 pm
*General Spring Elections – Tuesday, April 19
*Clarion APSCUF’s End-of-the-Semester Gathering –
Thursday, May 5 @ 4 pm at CRBC (tentative)

GENERAL APSCUF & BARGAINING UNIT MEETING is scheduled for Tuesday, March 30, 2021, @ 3:30 pm.
Location/Zoom Link will be announced. This will also include “Meet the Candidates” Forum for the 2022
Spring General Elections. Please “pencil in” this meeting on your meeting calendar.
NOTE: General Spring Elections will be held on Tuesday & Wednesday, April 19 & 20 thru Survey Monkey.
More information is forthcoming of open APSCUF & Committee positions. Stay tuned!

HAVE YOU MOVED OVER WINTER BREAK? If so, please be sure to inform Jan in the APSCUF
office of your new address. Reporting your new address to Human Resources DOES NOT guarantee
that we have received this information.

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Faculty: You will also need to change this with the PA Faculty Health & Welfare Fund, your dental
and vision provider. For a new enrollment/change form, please contact Jan the APSCUF office today
at jwalters@clarion.edu.

WELCOME NEW & RETURNING APSCUF MEMBERS!!
Michael Boston – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Randy Cathcart – Nutrition, Health & Sport Sciences
Jeffrey Hancks – Library Science
Ian Hollobaugh - Nursing
Beth McGuire – Library Science
Michael Neiswonger - Nursing
Meredith Pitts - Education
Edna Reid – Library Science
Coach Brock Zacherl – Assistant Wresting Coach
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FACULTY AND COACHES INTERNSHIP
APSCUF’s faculty and coaches’ orientation internship is for APSCUF members
who have some local APSCUF responsibility and are interested in expanding a
working knowledge of the union. Interns spend a week in the summer in the
Harrisburg office to observe the entire spectrum of union administration. They
interact with staff members who serve in various capacities. The program aims
to prepare APSCUF members for increased local and/or state responsibilities.
Click here to download an application and more information about hotels, travel, and meals.
Questions? Email Katie Jeffries at kjeffries@apscuf.org.

A REMINDER to the new Fall 2021 Part-time Temporary Faculty: If you were a new part-time
temporary faculty member for the fall 2021 semester and are returning to Clarion University for the
spring 2022 semester, please contact Jan Walters in the APSCUF office for a PA Faculty Health &
Welfare Fund enrollment card. YES, you do qualify for partial vision and FULL 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 negotiated in APSCUF’s collective
bargaining agreement. For detailed coverage for part-time temporary faculty, go into the APSCUF website
udder forms-benefit at https://www.apscuf.org/members/forms-benefits/ .

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
CLARION APSCUF 2022 FALL SCHOLARSHIPS: Applications are now being accepted for
the Fall 2022 Clarion APSCUF Scholarship to be awarded to SEVEN (7) Clarion University
students. Any student wishing to apply must be currently enrolled at Clarion University with a minimum of 3.2 QPA following
completion of the Fall 2021 semester. Eligibility, instructions and “fillable” application can now be downloaded at
www.apscuf.org/universities/clarion . Deadline for submission is Friday, March 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm.
Please feel free to share the direct link to the application: Application for APSCUF Scholarship
We are asking once again for you to announce this scholarship to your students in your classes along with posting the above
link in each of your D2L course sites. Also, we are asking to please display the announcement flyer in your department where
students can view it on page 4 of this newsletter.
In advance, thank you for your assistance: The Clarion APSCUF Scholarship Committee: Jeffrey Diamond (Chair), Todd Lavin
& Helen Hampikian
STATE APSCUF SCHOLARSHIP: APSCUF offers a $3,000 scholarship to relatives of APSCUF or
APSCURF members in good standing. Click here for the 2022 application, which must be
postmarked or received electronically no later than 11:59 p.m. June 1, 2022. Award recipient(s) will be
notified by Aug. 1, 2022. Direct questions to APSCUF’s director of membership services at 800-932-0587,
Ext. 3021.
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FACULTY: Please feel free to share the below information to any of your students that may be interested in
applying for Government/Public Relations internship at State APSCUF in Harrisburg. Application deadline is
February 14, 2022.

GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERNSHIP
State APSCUF offers a paid internship in government and public relations for
undergraduates attending a Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
university. The APSCUF internship is a great opportunity for a student interested in
government, politics, public affairs, journalism or communication. APSCUF interns
must be professional, self-motivated and skilled communicators. Our interns have
gone on to jobs in the legislature, lobbying and the news media (see Where are the
APSCUF interns now?).
We are seeking a junior or senior majoring in political science, communication,
journalism or a related field to serve as a government relations/communication
intern at the state APSCUF office building at 319 N. Front St. in Harrisburg. The
student internship must be for academic credit under the supervision of a State
System university faculty member. The successful applicant should have strong
knowledge of government workings, as well as excellent oral and written
communication skills. APSCUF will pay $11 per hour, and interns are expected to
work 35 hours each week, Monday through Friday.
Upcoming and current internships:

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Click here for the 2022 internship application. The application deadline is Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. The
internship will run Tuesday, May 31, 2022, through Friday, Aug. 5, 2022.

For more information, please contact Kathryn Morton, communications director.

YMCA MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT: Receive a membership discount when you join the Clarion County Scenic
Rivers YMCA in Clarion. Present your membership card OR your Member Verification Certificate provided to
you by the Clarion APSCUF office to the YMCA Member Service Desk and receive a special discount on your
membership. Know that your membership is for both the Oil City and Clarion County YMCAs!
(NOTE: Included in this newsletter on page 7 are the new 2022 Membership Discount Rates)

HAPPY NEW YEAR and WELCOME
BACK TO A NEW SEMESTER! MAY THE
YEAR OF 2022 BE A “SMOOTH RIDE”
FOR ALL OF US AS WE CHANGE!!
For more information on Clarion/Edinboro/California’s Integration,
please visit https://www.clarion.edu/integration/index.html

For all Covid-19 for Clarion University, please go to
https://www.clarion.edu/covid-19/index.html

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NOT REGISTERED FOR APSCUF’s MEMBER’S SITE? To get yourself registered, go to
www.apscuf.org. Here is the direct link to the registration page:
http://www.apscuf.org/membersonly/membership-registration/. There you will find all the
information on APSCUF’s Special Services such as discounts on shopping, rental vehicles,
amusement parks, phone plans, etc. etc.

APSCUF SPECIALSERVICES: All full dues-paying APSCUF members are eligible to use the Special Services
program. Information on these programs (including links and access codes) are available 24/7 to members who
provide the necessary sign-up information for the members-only benefits area of this State APSCUF website. For
more information about these discounts, go to www.apscuf.org and click onto the “Members” section.

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The APSCUF Rewards program can help you save money on everyday items such as groceries, oil
changes and fitness, to larger expenses like travel and moving services. Enrollment is fast, easy and
free via the APSCUF Rewards website .

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