#SHAMEONIUP
A student-led coalition to save our programs, professors, and staff
ABOUT
In October 2020, IUP announced the retrenchment of roughly 130 tenured and tenure-track faculty (25% of our total faculty), as well as over 130 non-faculty staff, and the consolidation of the Colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities & Social Sciences. However, despite IUP's insistence that it is moving towards a STEM focus, multiple STEM programs are also facing devastating cuts. Our cross-disciplinary, student-led coalition knows that these cuts spell the end of lucrative, successful, and impactful programs across the university, and are anything but "student-centered." Join us in saying SHAME on IUP in order to SAVE IUP, and show your support for our faculty, staff, and programs. We're in this together.
OUR COALITION
Programs We Believe In
Our coalition started as a collaboration between Journalism, CAL and TESOL, and Fine Arts students to share resources and petitions to make our voices stronger together. As we quickly learned, it wasn't only our programs that were deeply impacted, but practically every program and college across campus. Now that we know the scope of the devastating plan, we are sharing all departments that we know of (so far) that are impacted. For details, including which programs are being cut entirely, see IUP's plan here.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Communication Disorders
Communications Media
Counseling
Developmental Studies
Educational Psychology
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
Art
Music
Theater & Dance
COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Criminology
Food & Nutrition
Human Development, Fashion, and Interior Design
Nursing and Allied Health
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology
Economics
English
Foreign Languages
Geography
History
Journalism
Philosophy
Political Science
Religious Studies
Sociology
EBERLY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Finance & Legal Studies
Information Systems and Decisions Sciences
KOPCHICK COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Biology
Chemistry
Geoscience
Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Physics
Psychology
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
IUP Library
IUP Staff
Are you part of an impacted program? We would love to work together.
TAKE ACTION
Our voices are stronger together. Join us in solidarity with our professors and staff to fight for their jobs and our degree programs!
SIGN OUR PETITIONS
With just the time it's taken to read this far on our website, you can sign our petitions to send a clear message to IUP President Driscoll and Provost Moerland that our programs, faculty, and staff are INDISPENSIBLE.
SEND AN EMAIL
Email Governor Wolf, Chair of the Board of Governors Shapira, and/or PASSHE Chancellor Greenstein to fight for our faculty, staff, and programs. Click for a link to ASPCUF's evolving email-writing guide.
MAKE A CALL
Call your Legislators and Governor Wolf to implore them to intervene against IUP's restructuring and retrenchment plan. Click the button below to see APSCUF's updated call script and phone numbers.
ATTEND AN EVENT
Join us at an event to protest the retrenchment and restructuring decision. Together, we can stop this, but we have a limited window of time before final decisions are announced at the end of October.
"As a faculty member who is probably not going to be directly affected, I am still very concerned for my colleagues, the health of many programs, and the threat to opportunities for future students."
Kenneth Sherwood, English Faculty
IN THE NEWS
Our Message, Gaining Traction
