Introduction

  • This election is for Special All Faculty Election for PASSHE Faculty Council WCU Representative. The rules for this election are listed below.
  • The nominees for the Special All Faculty Election for PASSHE Faculty Council WCU Representative election are listed to the right. The list to the right is not a ballot.
  • This list in not official until nominations have been closed and the list of nominees has been reviewed and verified by the APSCUF Nominations and Elections Committee.
  • The statements the candidates submitted with their nominations are given below. By clicking on a name in the list of candidates, you will be taken to that candidate's statement.
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The nominees for Special All Faculty Election for PASSHE Faculty Council WCU Representative are:

Cliff Johnston
Orhan Kara
Jason Thomas Wozniak

Nominations close Mar 27, 2025.
All Faculty may be nominated.

Rules for the Election

    • This election is for one representative and one alternate. This election will be decided by a plurality vote unless there is only one nominee in which case the election will be decided by an approve/disapprove ballot. A tie among the top vote getters will be settled by a run-off of those candidates. The candidate with the highest vote total will be elected as representative. The candidate with the second highest vote total will be elected as alternate.
    • More information on the PASSHE Faculty Council can be found at https://www.passhe.edu/About/Pages/Faculty-Council.aspx.
    • All full-time and adjunct faculty members at WCU are invited to participate in the election of the WCU faculty representative to serve on the IFC.
    • APSCUF WCU will host the election in accordance with its published policies and procedures provided on the APSCUF-WCU Nomination and Elections Committee web page located at http://www.apscufwcu.com/apscufne.htm
    • Candidacy for the role of the WCU FC Representative is available to all members of the faculty. If you are interested in declaring your candidacy as part of this opportunity, please complete this nomination form including a statement of interest. The statement of interest must be completed by the applicant and posted on the nomination form. Please limit your statement of interested to no more than 250 words.
    • Please contact Clifford Johnston (cjohnston@wcupa.edu), chair of APSCUF-WCU Nominations and Elections, if you have questions or need further clarification. Nominations will only be accepted through the official APSCUF-WCU electronic nominations form. If you have technical issues using the nominations form, please contact Clifford Johnston, chair of APSCUF-WCU Nominations and Elections, for assistance.
    • The term of this position is 2 years.

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Cliff Johnston


Department: Mathematics

I am asking for your vote to serve on the PASSHE Faculty Council. As a system, we are facing numerous challenges in the years ahead including national threats to higher education, falling morale among faculty and students across all our universities, growing concerns of external influence on policy and curriculum, and continued fiscal uncertainty. The Faculty Council can advocate for policies that address these concerns and rebuff policies that exacerbate them. As a member of the Faculty Council, I will work to keep the concerns of the faculty at the forefront of every strategic discussion at the state level.

It is also important that the Faculty Council work in partnership with APSCUF, particularly as a new chancellor comes to PASSHE. I have served in leadership of APSCUF at both the local and state level for over 25 years. I was APSCUF president of West Chester for 6 years and on the local executive committee for over 20 years. I have served on the State APSCUF Executive Committee and as an APSCUF State Delegate for over 20 years. I served on APSCUF State Meet and Discuss for 15 years including 5 years as spokesperson/chair. I am still active at both the local and state level of APSCUF. In addition to my APSCUF experience, I have been on several university strategic planning committees, search committees for university administration including a presidential search and several dean searches, and system wide policy committees. In those positions, I have frequently discussed strategic policy with state system faculty and administration and reviewed dozens of state system policies.

In short, I have considerable experience with shared governance at the state and local level. More importantly, I believe my colleagues would say that I have been an outspoken advocate for the concerns of faculty while serving in these positions. I will do the same as a member of the Faculty Council. I will be a strong and experienced voice for the faculty of West Chester and PASSHE and humbly ask for your support.


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Orhan Kara


Department: Economic & Finance

I served as an alternative on this committee and would be happy to continue to serve as an alternate.


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Jason Thomas Wozniak


Department: Educational Foundations and Policy Studi

For over a decade my research and scholar-activist work has focused on higher education in the United States and abroad. I have published extensively on the issues of student and university debt. Since arriving at West Chester, I have taught courses in Critical University Studies, Power and Privilege in Higher Education, and The History and Philosophy of Higher Ed. Prior to arriving at West Chester University I served on the San Jose State University Eboard of the California Faculty Association. I regularly participate in events with Debt Collective, and currently I am the Debt Collective delegate to Higher Education Labor United (HELU). HELU is a national organization founded in 2021 to unite workers throughout US higher education.

As a Faculty Council Representative I will work with partners to increase funding for all PASSHE campuses, reduce student debt, increase wages and benefits for ALL faculty and staff, and advocate for real, not just symbolic, shared-governance. Given my higher education experience, and stated aims, I hope I can win your support.


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