KU XChange

05/24/2016

Today on the Sit Down, we’ll be talking with Dr. Amy Lynch-Biniek. Amy is a faculty member in the English Department at Kutztown University.  Amy writing pedagogy, literacy studies, and labor studies. Her forthcoming book, Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor & Action in English Composit...

05/24/2016

It’s another Tuesday in this presidential election season. For the first time in a long time we don’t have a primary or caucus! But just because there are no primaries, doesn’t mean that there is no news. We’ll get into the big news of Bernie Sanders getting the opportunity to appoint a Dream Team t...

05/18/2016

Welcome to the first edition of The Sit Down - new project of Raging Chicken Radio! In addition to our regular weekly podcast, "Out d'Coup," Raging Chicken Press editor, Kevin Mahoney, will talk with activists, public intellectuals, and hell-raisers of all sorts.  For our first episode, we sit down…

05/17/2016

A HUUUUUUGE day for Raging Chicken Radio. Today we officially roll out our expanded podcast! After our regular Out d'Coup podcast, keep on listening for our interview with Steve Horn, Research Fellow for DeSmogBlog and freelance journalist, about the on-going probe into ExxonMobil's role in the clim...

05/10/2016

On today's episode we do a little Election Reflection now that Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee for president...what are Trump's prospects in the General? Are the Democrats up to the task to defeat him? Meanwhile, the Democratic primary is still going strong. Today is Primary day in West…

05/03/2016

It's May 3, 2016. On today's episode of Out d'Coup podcast, we talk to Sean Kitchen about his upcoming article on Katie McGinty's ties to the natural gas industry as she prepares to take on Pat Toomey for a PA Senate seat this fall. We talk about the sway of money in politics and the need for the De…

01/07/2016

Last month, when the Pennsylvania House Republicans sunk the pension reform bill – a part of the budget package that Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans, House Democrats and Democratic Gover…

10/18/2014

ICYMI: Raging Chicken Press recap of this week in the struggle to save Philly Public Schools More to come: Stay tuned, get involved, fight back!

03/18/2014

Latest on PASSHE Secession legislation from an "untenured and concerned" faculty member at West Chester U, "PASSHE Secession Legislation Leads Down Exploitation Road": http://wp.me/p1unwS-2db.

Latest on PASSHE Secession legislation from an "untenured and concerned" faculty member at West Chester U, "PASSHE Secession Legislation Leads Down Exploitation Road": http://wp.me/p1unwS-2db.

"With the rise of adjunct or contingent faculty in the contemporary era it is clear that the university is once again living off of the backs of professors (and students). Our APSCUF contract protects us from this tendency. The business model for higher education, to be sure, has in no way retreated, but has steadily grown and developed with capitalism more generally. According to Cohen and Kisker, in the years leading up to WWII, for example, 'the trustees became corporate directors responsible for institutional maintenance; and the administrators became business managers' leading to 'governing boards' shifting 'as businessmen were appointed in greater numbers'."

03/11/2014

PA Senators Tomlinson (R) and Dinniman (D) launch bipartisan effort to begin dismantling the PA State System of Higher Education. Social media campaign will push secession legislation. http://wp.me/p1unwS-2bW

03/11/2014

Senators Tomlinson (R) and Dinniman (D) prepare to unveil PASSHE secession legislation at their press conference right now. Watch the live stream here: http://av.pasenategop.com/streams/Videofeeds.html?feed=cmc|title=News%20Conference|desc=Senators%20to%20Announce%20Legislation%20to%20Give%20PASSHE%20Universities%20More%20Options

11/18/2013

Grad student, Grace Kavanah, takes on ESU president Marcia Welsh's claims that retrenchment is necessary http://wp.me/p1unwS-223

Grad student, Grace Kavanah, takes on ESU president Marcia Welsh's claims that retrenchment is necessary http://wp.me/p1unwS-223

"For some reason, she [Welsh] neglects to mention the program cuts; perhaps, those are more concerning signs of a serious problem. And she neglects to mention the number of programs that were initially considered for cutting - all of those, including ENGLISH!, were potentially on the chopping block under the "student demand" value metric. Or, let us be explicit about this, what is essentially the retailing of study options - English, History, French - all competing for shelf space at Marcia Welsh’s Walmart University."

08/22/2013

Latest on Clarion University cuts: "Shock Turning to Anger and Mobilization at Clarion University" http://wp.me/p1unwS-1NM

"If Clarion President Whitney's slash-and-burn workforce plan shows a disdain for the academic mission of the university, the process by which this plan became known to the university community is down-right sickening. I wanted to know more about how people first learned about Clarion's new workforce plan, so I called Beth MacDaniel, Chair of the English Department and President of Clarion's chapter of the faculty union, APSCUF. What MacDaniel told me should set off alarm bells for anyone who gives half a damn about shared governance and democratic process."

05/14/2013

Want to keep progressive media growing? Want to support activist media that's all about asking the hard questions and raking the muck? Well, don't wait on the sidelines any more. The next three new Raging Chicken Press members will receive Lee Fang's new book, "The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right." Become a member for as little as $5/month. Here's the details: http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/support/

Check out Lee Fang's book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Field-Guide-Resurgent-Right/dp/1595586393/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368552665&sr=1-1&keywords=lee+fang

Want to become a member? Well, here's our latest book drive!
http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/support/

Our last new member give-away was a huge success. So, here we go again! The first three people to become members of Raging Chicken Press for as little as $5/month will get Lee Fang's new book dissecting the resurgent Right. To become a member or get more info, click the pic.

05/09/2013

Published earlier today on Raging Chicken Press and AcademeBlog.

Latest Raging Chicken article on Kutztown U's new gun policy, http://goo.gl/o9eJL, "Wild West U: Kutztown University Opens Campus to Guns."

"Just over a week before Kutztown University will welcome the families and friends of soon-to-be graduates, the university has decided to revise a long-standing policy in order to welcome guns onto its 289 acre campus. While the massacre of students and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT is still fresh in people’s minds and the families of the victims are still canvassing the nation in support of reasonable gun control policies, KU President Javier Cevallos and his Administrative Council decided that now was the time to make it easier for students, faculty, and staff to carry weapons on campus."

05/01/2013

If you do one thing to celebrate, learn about, or remember May Day today...Check out Sean Indignado Kitchen's interview with Erik Loomis on the history of May Day and the return of the Second Gilded Age on Raging Chicken Press:

http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2013/05/01/rcpress-interview-history-of-may-day-and-the-return-of-the-second-gilded-age/

RCPress Interview: Erik Loomis on the history of May Day and the return of the Second Gilded Age

http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2013/05/01/rcpress-interview-history-of-may-day-and-the-return-of-the-second-gilded-age/

04/16/2013

For the cost of a beer a month, you can help keep Raging Chicken Press going and expand our progressive media work. If we don't support our progressive media, who will? Become a member today:

http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/support/

Raging Chicken Press wants you to become a member. Help support progressive media. Check out the details here: http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/support/

04/11/2013

Raging Chicken Press wants you to become a member. Help support progressive media. Check out the details here: http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/support/