Privatization

2019

• Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire’s Raid on the University of Tulsa (The Nation 6/18/19)
• How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement (Propublic 6/18/19)
• More on the Runaway Retiree Health Care Train (UCLAFA 6/14/19)
• UCLA Emeriti Assn. Statement to Regents on Proposed Privatization of Retiree Health (UCLAFA 6/11/19)
• Report Attacks Koch-funded Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University as a Pro-fossil-fuel-industry Idea Launderer (IHE 6/3/19)
• UCSF’s Proposal to Expand Partnership With Dignity Health Faces New Critique (SF Chronicle 4/26/19)
• Mind Your Business: UCLA Hotels Detract Funding From More Pressing Issues, Compromise Local Business (Daily Bruin 4/25/19)
• The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb (CHE 4/16/19)
• UC’s Deal With Catholic Hospitals Threatens the Health of Women and LGBTQ Patients (LAT 4/12/19)
• The True Crime in Higher Education: How We’ve Abandoned Public Universities Like CUNY (Daily News 4/2/19)
• Academic Freedom is Caught in a Triangle of Threats (Academe Blog 3/24/19)
• A Lesson From UC’s Split With Elsevier: Keep the Faculty in the Loop (CHE 3/1/19)
• This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age (CHE 2/3/19)
• UC Regents Relax Rules Restricting Paid Outside Jobs for Chancellors and Top Managers (LAT 1/17/19)

2018

• What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry (NYT 12/8/18)
• The NFL is the Fox in the Henhouse of Football-Injury Research (LAT 12/3/18)
• The Secret Betrayal That Sealed Nike's Special Influence Over the University of Oregon (Pacific Standard 10/18/18)
• Richard Blum, a $100 Million UC Investment, Feinstein Campaign Donations: Business As Usual at UC? (Capital & Main 10/15/18)
• Academic Values and Innovation (Academe Blog 9/19/18)
• How the Great Recession Reshaped American Higher Education (CHE 9/14/18)
• The Gaping Divide Over Student Debt (New Republic 8/2/18)
• Higher Education’s Insatiable Appetite for Doing More Will Be Its Undoing (CHE 7/29/18)
• Reject the Con: Education Is Infrastructure (IHE 5/31/18)
• The Plutocracy Comes to Campus (Dissent 5/15/18)
• UnKoching George Mason University: The Power of Organizing (Academe Blog 5/8/18)
• What Charles Koch and Other Donors to George Mason University Got for Their Money (NYT 5/5/18)
• Matt Bevin’s Revenge? (New Republic 5/4/18)
• Private Sector Lenders Ready to Expand into Graduate Loan Market (IHE 5/4/18)
• Revelations Over Koch Gifts Prompt Inquiry at George Mason University (NYT 5/1/18)
• Documents Show Ties Between University, Conservative Donors (APNews 5/1/18)
• George Mason on Trial: Release the Documents! (Academe Blog 4/21/18)
• The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools (Naked Capitalism 4/9/18)
• George Mason Lands $5 Million Koch Foundation Donation for Economics Department (Wa Po 3/22/18)
• Higher Education Under Fire at Tennessee Tech (Academe Blog 3/22/18)
• Being Set Up to Fail? The Battle to Save the UK’s Universities From Speculative Finance (Critical Legal Thinking 3/16/18)
• Downgrading Harvard (The Baffler 3/5/18)
• Putting the Axe to Target (Guardian 3/4/18)
• University of Michigan Endowment Invests Billions with Donor-Run Funds (Detroit Free Press 2/1/18)
• Facing the Reality of the Trump Regime (AAUP 1/17/18)

2017

• Betsy DeVos: Trump's Illiberal Ally Seen As Most Dangerous Education Chief Ever (Guardian 7/26/17)
• The Rise of the Thought Leader (New Republic 6/28/17)
• Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges (CHE 6/27/17)
• The Invasion Has Already Begun (Academe Blog 6/10/17)
• Requiem for the Public University (Campaign for the Public University 5/2/17)
• Private Companies Fund Public-University Research (The Atlantic 4/3/17)
• Devos-Style School Privatization is Surging in the States (New Republic 3/22/17)
• College Professors Articulate Vision “Reclaiming Higher Education for All North Carolinians” (Academe Blog 3/18/17)
• The Student Debt Crisis and Its Deniers (Public Books 3/15/17)
• Why Yale Should Shun Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman (Alternet 2/23/17)

2016

• The Curse of Credentialism (Baseline Scenario 12/26/16)
• Public Universities Have “really lost our focus” (Hechinger Report 11/18/16)
• These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers (ProPublica 11/16/16)
• The Costs of Corporatization (Academe Blog 11/15/16)
• Higher Education After the 2016 Election (AAUP 11/8/16)
• Neoliberalism's Decades-Long Attack on Public Universities (Truth-Out 10/12/16)
• Author Says 'The Great Mistake' Was Running Universities Like Businesses (Foreword Reviews 9/1/16)
• Wayne State Donor Agreement Goes Under the Microscope (IHE 8/31/16)
• Next chancellor must rebuild trust (Daily Cal 8/30/16)
• Universities and The Public Good? (Cloudminder 8/26/16)
• Credentialism and Corruption: Vile College Administrators Edition (Naked Capitalism 8/25/16)
• Institutes, Grading, and the Nine Circles of Adjunct Hell: ‘McSweeney’s’ Regards Academe (CHE 8/12/16)
• Employees Sue Four More Universities Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/11/16)
• M.I.T., N.Y.U. and Yale Are Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/9/16)
• The Undesirable Consequences of the Growing Pressure on Faculty to Get Grants (IHE 7/25/16)
• Public Schools? To Kansas Conservatives, They’re ‘Government Schools’ (NYT 7/9/16)
• Cambridge University Rejects Calls to Divest From Fossil Fuels (Guardian 6/19/16)
• Big Men on Campus: The Koch Brothers’ University Donations are a Veiled Political Weapon (Salon 6/19/16)
• When Universities Try To Behave Like Businesses, Education Suffers (LAT 6/3/16)
• The Challengers (and Challenges) in Higher Education Market Reform (Wonkhe 5/17/16)
• How George Mason Became Koch’s Academic Darling (CHE 5/13/16)
• The Entrepreneurship Racket (Jacobin 5/12/16)
• WMU-AAUP on State Divestment From Higher Education (Academe Blog 3/28/16)
• Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities (Huff Po 3/25/16)
• Alternative Providers & Quality (Andrew McGettigan 3/20/16)
• Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education (Dissent 3/5/16)
• UC Irvine Moves to Reject Endowed Chair Gifts from Donor with Strong Opinions About the Study of Hinduism (IHE 2/22/16)
• Rhode Island Governor Tapped Public College Foundations to Pay for State Business (IHE 2/19/16)
• Open Letter to the University of California, Irvine (Petition 1/31/16)
• Endowment returns at 2.4 percent in fiscal year 2015 (IHE 1/27/16)
• The Soul of Higher Education Under Corporatization (Assemble 4 Action 1/15/16)

2015

• At Irvine, Questions About Professorships Funded by a Foundation that Seeks to Change Scholarly Study of Hinduism (IHE 12/21/15)
• UC Ventures Haute-Line Bling-Type Reincarnation? (Cloudminder 12/15/15)
• The Challenge of Restoring the ‘Public’ to ‘Public Higher Education’ (CHE 12/11/15)
• Universities Should Benefit the Public, Not Just the Public Purse (Guardian 12/7/15)
• Dirks On Alternative Funding For Higher Ed, more...A Global Degree From A Global U. In Every Global Pot? (Cloudminder 10/30/15)
• Professorial Anger, Then and Now (CHE, Chris Newfield 10/24/15)
• New Paper Details Extent of BB&T Bank's Ayn Rand-Inspired Grant Program (IHE 10/16/15)
• Privatization, Charters & High-Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan’s Education Legacy (Naked Capitalism 10/7/15)
• University of Kansas Case Exposes Koch Campus Strategy (Huff Po 9/21/15)
• The Global Finance University: The Future of the End? (Changing Universities 9/11/15)
• Education “Reform’s” Big Lie: The Real Reason the Right has Declared War on our Public Schools (Salon 5/9/15)
• UW Tuition: Going the Wrong Way (Language Politics 4/17/15)
• The Slow Death of the University (CHE 4/6/15)
• The Strange Death of the Liberal University (Open Democracy 4/3/15)
• A Plan to Privatize Public Universities in Illinois (IHE 3/25/15)
• A Political Crackdown at University of North Carolina (New Yorker 3/19/15)
• Cuomo Ties Business Initiative to SUNY Funding (Capital Network 3/4/15)
• No Profit Left Behind (Politico 2/10/15)
• How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging (NYT 2/6/15)

2014

• How Do You See The University of California? (Daily Cal 11/14/14)
• At College Where Alumni Pockets Are Shallow, a Struggle to Raise Money (NYT 11/14/14)
• Students Want Koch, Corporate Influence Off Campus (IHE 11/4/14)
• Massachusetts Higher Ed Officials Want a Half Billion Dollars and Better Respect (IHE 10/29/14)
• I'm Banned From Harvard. Here's Why I'm Going Back. (The Nation 10/24/14)
• Philadelphia’s School Reform Debacle: Despised Governor Crosses the Line (Salon 10/7/14)
• Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt' Everything About the Education Market (The Nation 9/25/14)
• Natalie Delgadillo: Civility Should Not Enter into the Campus Discussion About Free Speech (Daily Bruin 9/15/14)
• Koch Brothers Sought Say in Academic Hiring in Return for University Donation (Guardian 9/12/14)
• Janet Napolitano Hopes UC Can Cash In on Companies, Not Just Research (KQED 8/27/14)
• Big-Name VCs, Others Tagged to Weigh Changes to UC Investment Policy (Biz Journals 7/28/14)
• The University of California Acts Like a Private School (KCRW 7/24/14)
• Student Loans Sell-Off Abandonment Raises Tension in Cabinet (Guardian 7/20/14)
• Corinthian Boosted Figures to Obtain Federal Funds (LAT 7/16/14)
• Student as Producer (Andrew McGettigan 7/14)
• The Privatization of Public Education? California Teachers Take Another Hit from Politicians (Global Research 6/30/14)
• A Private Putsch Against Public Schooling (Too Much Online 6/21/14)
• Reflections on the Contemporary University: Reading List for Governing Academic Life #GAL2014 (LSE 6/14/14)
• The Miseducation of America (CHE 6/19/14)
• The Market in Higher Education (Andrew McGettigan 6/16/14)
• How Corporate IT Enslaved Academe (CHE 6/16/14)
• Ivory Tower Documentary Buzz, HBCUs Series (Cloudminder 6/8/14)
• Oxford University urged to purge its £3.3bn fund of fossil fuel investments (Guardian 6/2/14)
• How UC–Santa Barbara Can Turn Grief Into Action: Divest From Gun Manufacturers (Nation 5/27/14)
• A Clash of Ideals and Investments at Swarthmore (NYT 5/16/14)
• Enrollment Drops 0.8% Over All, but Edges Up at Private 4-Year Colleges (CHE 5/15/14)
• Gene Glass: The Strangest Academic Department in the World (Diane Ravitch 5/12/14)
• Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust (The Nation 4/10/14)
• Public Colleges Struggle for Ways to Evolve Amid Competing Demands (CHE 4/7/14)
• Failing Tuition Fees System Won't be Fixed by Tinkering (Guardian 4/1/14)
• High Culture and Hard Labor (NYT 3/28/14)
• Yale Tells Students to Keep Kissinger Talk Secret (Salon 3/24/14)
• Taxpayers Fund Creationism in the Classroom (Politico 3/24/14)
• Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science (NYT 3/15/14)
• Dirks at Commonwealth Club (Cloudminder 3/13/14)
• Harvard’s President Says Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Blocking Clean Energy (The Nation 3/13/14)
• bMail and Google’s “Content One Box” (Berkeley Blog 3/1/14)
• 4 Ways Privatization is Ruining our Education System (Salon 2/19/14)
• Private Colleges' Turn to Cry (IHE 2/17/14)
• World Bank Chief Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment Drive (RTCC 1/27/14)

2013

• Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward (NYT 12/27/13)
• Executive Compensation at Private Colleges, 2011 (CHE 12/15/13)
• 42 Private College Presidents Make More Than $1M, And Harvard's Isn't One Of Them (HuffPo 12/15/13)
• A Right to the University (Critical Legal Thinking 12/11/13)
• Fast-Growing Endowments, Without the Ivy (NYT 11/9/13)
• Endowment Returns Up, For Now (IHE 11/7/13)
• Public Education Privatizers Join Fight To Cut Social Security (FDL 10/22/13)
• Profit or Progress? (IHE 10/10/13)
• Harvard Says No (IHE 10/4/13)
• National Nuclear Security Administration Spending Comes Under Fire For Cost Overruns (HuffPo 9/13/13)
• America No Longer Values Its Public Institutions (Salon 8/23/13)
• Outsourcing and Outrage at Penn State (CHE 8/13/13)
• On Way Out the Door, Yudof Agrees to Privatize Anderson MBA (UCLA Newsroom 6/24/13)
• SB520 and Privatization (EastBayExpress 6/5/13)
• James Vernon on Stopping the MOOC "Avalanche" (Guardian 4/29/13)

2011

• The Falling Rankings of Public Universities (CHE 9/6/11)
• Politics and the University: Views From the Campuses (CHE 8/28/11)
• Texas-Size Compromise (IHE 8/26/11)
• Reign of the Politician-Chancellor (IHE 8/23/11) 
• Negotiating No More (IHE 8/22/11) 
• Why Flagship Public Universities Should Stay Public (CHE 8/7/11)
• Tuition increases average 7.9% as affordability declines (Richmond Times-Dispatch 8/2/11)
• Guest View: Dream of higher education slipping away (San Gabriel Valley Tribune 7/27/11)
• University of California enrolls more out-of-state freshmen (LAT 7/1/11) 
• UCLA Joins Venture to Offer Online Education to Baby Boomers (CHE 6/23/11)
• Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities (Social Science Space 6/20/11) 
• Doing a Grayling: your step-by-step guide to setting up a new college (Guardian 6/14/11)
• US universities in Africa 'land grab' (Guardian 6/8/11)
• What’s Next for Wisconsin? (IHE 6/6/11)
• The New School for Privatised Inquiry (Campaign for the Public University 6/5/11) 
• Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite (NYT 5/24/11) 
• Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite (NYT 5/24/11) 
• Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges (CHE 5/15/11) 
• Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions (St. Petersburg Times 5/10/11)
• Budget Standoff Frays Nerves at a Regional Public University (CHE 4/24/11) 
• UT's controversial special adviser is out of a job (Chron 4/20/11)
• UNLV Liberal Arts reveals revised plan for budget cuts (Las Vegas Weekly 4/6/11) 
• UW gives us what we asked for (Seattle Times 4/5/11)
• Why straight-A's may not get you into UW this year (SeattleTimes 4/2/11)
• "Triage for Community Colleges" (IHE 3/30/11)
• Fundraising Is Flat in 2010, Liberal Arts Colleges do Best (IHE 2/2/11)
• Gov Cuomo Proposes 3% Cut to NY State Budget, 10% Cut to Higher Ed (NY Governor 2/1/11)
• Better Ideas for Responding to Washington State Higher Ed Crisis (Seattle Times 1/25/11)
• Universities Trading Less Funding for Autonomy? (IHE 1/17/11)
• Arizona Tries to Increase Out-of-State Students (ArizonaRepublic 1/4/11)
• Texas Begins to Buy Out Faculty in Liberal Arts to Save Money (CHE 1/3/11)
• Public Universities Face Deeper Cuts (CHE 1/2/11)

2010

• Indiana Redistributes Cuts with New Incentives (Indianapolis Star 12/26/10)
• Iowa Republicans Target Faculty Sabbaticals (Huffpo 12/2/10)
• LSU Board to Discuss Weakening Tenure Protections (HammondStar 11/30/10)
• Producing the Mono-versity (Campaign for Public University 11/28/10)
• Colorado Commission Sees More Public Investment or Decline (Colorado Higher Ed 11/22/10)
• With Megagifsts Hard to Get, Colleges Chase More Donors (CHE 11/21/10)
• Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Grow (MSNBC 11/14/10)
• U Minnesota's Biggest College Releases Downsizing Report (U Minnesota UThink 11/8/10)
• Arbitrator Orders FSU To Rescind Layoff Notices to Tenured Faculty (CHE 11/7/10)
• Arbitrator Orders Rescinding of Layoffs of Tenured Faculty in Florida (CHE 11/5/10)
• Ohio a Loser in Shift in Statehouses (IHE 11/3/10)
• Endowments Rebound in 2010 after Record Losses in 2009 (IHE 11/3/10)
• Texas Commissioners Want to Base Funding Priorities on Grads Not Students (IHE 11/2/10)
• Texas Moves to Tie University Funding to Statistical Measurements (Statesman 10/28/10)
• Cuts Loom at 4 Publics (MO, NY, LA, IL) (CHE 10/25/10)
• Fundraising Down 12% at Universities Last Year (CHE 10/18/10)
• Pete Carroll Made $4.9 Million in his last year as USC Football coach (CHE 9/30/10)
• Endowments Begin to Rebound (IHE 9/30/10)
• Research Universities Seek New Federal Support (CHE 9/23/10)
• Washington Us Face Continuing Cuts, Steady Eerosion (Seattle Times 9/16/10)
• Rice U's Budget Problems Prompt Suggested Sale of Student Radio Station (Chron 9/16/10)
• Death Spiral of Public Higher ED (CHE 9/3/10)
• University of Washington Faces Increased Budget Cuts (CHE 9/1/10)
• Publics Hike Tuition All Over (IHE 8/27/10)
• Community Colleges at the Breaking Point (MSNBC 8/10/10)
• Higher Ed and Governor Races (IHE 8/5/10)
• SUNY Fails to Get Right To Raise Tuition (CHE 8/4/10)
• Iowa "Overbooks" on Admissions (NYT 8/4/10)
• NY Passes Budget; Leaves Suny Status Uncertain (NYT 8/4/10)
• SUNY Tuition and the NY Budget Crisis (NYT 7/27/10)
• Tuition is 10 Grand at Michigan's Regional Colleges (Kalamazoo Gazette 7/23/10)
• Community Colleges Start to Limit Nursing Admissions (IHE 7/21/10)
• Struggles Over Suny (NYT 7/19/10)
• NY and Illinois Systems Face Deepening Crises (CHE 7/16/10)
• Oregon System Seeks Greater Autonomy and Control (IHE 7/12/10)
• LSU May Face 23% Cut (WAFB 6/25/10)
• NY Budget Stalls Over Prosposal to 2-Tier SUNY Via Tuition-Setting (NYT 6/23/10)
• Pennsylvania Universities Freeze Enrollments in Some Small Majors (Philly.com 6/15/10)
• Middlesex Philosophy Center Survives by Moving to Kingston U (Guardian 6/10/10)
• Private College's Face Slow Economic Recovery (CHE 6/10/10)
• How the Michigan Model Works (CHE 6/8/10)
• Some Research Centers Leaving Public Univ. Due to Overhead and Administration (CHE 5/23/10)
• In Seeking Prestige and Private Funds Colleges May Undermine Their Public Mission (CHE 5/21/10)
• Wealthy Endowments Helped Fuel the Financial Crisis (CHE 5/21/10)
• Ohio U Faculty Say Athletics Subsidies Incompatible with Educational Mission (IHE 5/20/10)
• Arizona and Oregon Pass Support Measures for Their Public Univs (CHE 5/19/10)
• U Washington Struggles with Cuts (Seattle Times 5/1/10)
• Does Fundraising Block Presidential Leadership? (Katz, CHE 4/30/10)
• SUNY Constructivist Responds to Hollinger (Citizen SE 4/27/10)
• U Washington Hikes Fees 30%, Loses 30% of State Support (Seattle PI 4/26/10)
• SUNY Chancellor Tries to Advance System in Face of Big Cuts (CHE 4/18/10)
• UT Regents' Donations to Gov Raise Questions about their Independence (CHE 4/8/10)
• SUNY Stony Brook to Shutter A Campus (IHE 4/8/10)
• ASU Pulls Out of Medical Center Due to Finances (CHE 4/2/10)
• SUNY Strategic Plan (SUNY 3/30/10)
• With Budget Crises Universities Start Eliminating Disciplines (CHE 3/28/10)
• University of Maine May Eliminate 16 Majors (Maine Campus 3/24/10)
• What SUNY Needs from the State of New York (CitizenSE 3/24/10)
• Interactive Map of Public Education Budget Stresses (CHE 3/15/10)
• Across the Nation Public HIgher Ed "In Peril" (CHE 3/15/10)
• Conflicts of Interest in the College Boardroom (CHE 3/15/10)
• Non Resident Tuition Backfires (Rockefeller Institute 2/22/10)
• Brandeis Proposes Program Cuts (Brandeis Now 2/22/10)
• Pennsylvania May Eliminate Smaller Majors at State Universities (Post-Gazette 2/21/10)
• FLorida State Lays Off Tenured Faculty (Tallahassee Democrat 2/19/10)
• Nevada faces devastating Higher Ed Cuts (IHE 2/12/10)
• As Tough Times Persist, Colleges Must Live with Last Year's Decisions (CHE 2/11/10)
• Fading Stimulus Saved Public Colleges (IHE 2/11/10)
• With Shrinking Endowment Yale to Cut People, Research (NYT 2/4/10)
• Yale President Responds to Shrinking Endowments (Richard Levin, Peter Salovey 2/3/10)
• Donations to Colleges Drop Significantly (IHE 2/3/10)
• Williams College to End its No-Loan Policy Due to Endowment Fall (CHE 2/1/10)
• University Endowments Down; Risky Investments Continue (NYT 1/28/10)
• Universities Jump into Real Estate (CHE 1/28/10)
• Universities Post Worst Endowment Returns since 1930s (IHE 1/27/10)
• The Dilemmas of Tuition Freezes (IHE 1/19/10)
• More Budget Cutting Ahead for Higher Ed (CHE 1/18/10)
• Map of State Higher Ed Budget Cuts (CHE 1/18/10)
• Federal Stimulus Staved off Deeper Cuts--But it is Gone (CHE 1/18/10)
• Historic Declines in State Support for Higher Ed (IHE 1/18/10)
• New York May Give Public Universities More Control Over Tuition (CHE 1/15/10)
• Louisana to Send More Students to 2-Year at 1/3 the Cost? (CHE 1/11/10)
• States' Plans for HIgher Ed Amongst Budget Troubles (CHE 1/10/10)
• Louisiana Higher Ed Facing Devastating Midyear Cuts (Shreveport Times 1/9/10)
• "Opportunity Adrift": Are Public Universities Failing in their Public Obligations? (Edtrust 1/10)

2009

• U of Arizona's Transformation Plan (Office of the Provost 2009 - 2010)
• Indiana University Facing Cuts of 59M, all Indiana Public Colleges and Universities 150M (Indiana Daily Student 12/24/09)
• Proposed cuts to Indiana Higher Ed Average 6% (Chicago Tribune 12/23/09)
• Harvard, Bonds, and Financial Crisis (Bloomberg 12/18/09)
• Even Worse News for U of Washington (UWOP 12/10/09)
• New "Cuts-Only" Reductions to Washington State Higher Ed (OPB 12/9/09)
• Budget Crisis at Indiana (Michael McRobbie 12/5/09)
• Summers, Harvard Ignored Investment Warnings (Boston.com 11/29/09)
• Mid-Year Cuts Considered in New York, Iowa, Colorado, Michigan... (IHE 11/2/09)
• More Cuts and Tuition Hikes in Louisiana (The Town Talk 11/1/09)
• Washington State Tax Cap Measure Could Hit Higher Ed Hard (Seattle Times 10/19/09)