Strategies, Tactics, and Goals
2019
- With Faculty Anger Surrounding Several Presidential Searches, Some Point to Search Firms as the Cause (IHE 8/23/19)
- Should Presidential Searches Be Open or Closed? (IHE 8/22/19)
- The Fight for Free College Is Your Fight Too (CHE 7/23/19)
- Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think (NYT 7/19/19)
- Corporate Wolves in Academic Sheepskins, or, a Billionaire’s Raid on the University of Tulsa (The Nation 6/18/19)
- Knowledge for the Common Good (AAUP 6/19)
- How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement (Propublic 6/18/19)
- Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection 6/19)
- The University Is a Battleground (Jacobin 5/26/19)
- LSU Ends Elsevier Bundled Journal Subscription (IHE 5/24/19)
- Gates and State-College Group Co-Chair Postsecondary Value Commission (IHE 5/16/19)
- AFSCME Local 3299 Claims UC Illegally Refused to Bargain Over Outsourcing (Daily Bruin 5/6/19)
- We Don’t Need a Scapegoat to Talk about Values in Higher Education (Academe Blog 5/3/19)
- North Carolina Press Seeks Sustainable Open-access Model for Monographs (IHE 5/3/19)
- Connecticut Community Colleges Faculty Administration at Odds Over Proposed Consolidation (IHE 4/17/19)
- UC’s Deal With Catholic Hospitals Threatens the Health of Women and LGBTQ Patients (LAT 4/12/19)
- Hampshire President Quits; Board Votes to Try to Stay Independent (IHE 4/8/19)
- Librarians Prepare to Take a Harder Line With Publishers (IHE 3/27/19)
- Academic Freedom is Caught in a Triangle of Threats (Academe Blog 3/24/19)
- UC Strike News (UCLAFA 3/9/19)
- The Unmaking of a College: Notes From Inside the Hampshire Runaway Train (The Nation 3/8/19)
- Professor at Institution 'Nobody's Heard of' Takes on Dinesh D'souza on Twitter (IHE 3/6/19)
- Love, Labor, Loss (The Rambling 2/14/19)
- WTF Is Going on at Wright State? (IHE 2/7/19)
- UC Librarians Continue Negotiating With UCOP Over Contracts (Daily Bruin 2/3/19)
- An Incredible Week at Wright State University (Academe Blog 1/27/19)
- Chapel Hill Chancellor's Departure Comes as Tensions at UNC Continue Boiling Over (IHE 1/15/19)
2018
- University of California Leads Fight Over Access to Research (Mercury News 12/25/18)
- Grinnell Student Union Leaders End Expansion Effort (IHE 12/18/18)
- The Golden State’s Scientific White Supremacist (Boom California 11/5/18)
- Academic Values and Innovation (Academe Blog 9/19/18)
- Chancellor Carol Christ Announces Updated Campus Free Speech Event Policy (Daily Cal 9/11/18)
- Hungary Seeks to Ban Gender Studies (Academe Blog 8/11/18)
- UNC System Power Dynamics on Display This Summer (IHE 8/3/18)
- Trump Administration Official Describes Plan to 'Rethink' Higher Education Through Upcoming Rule-Making Sessions (IHE 7/30/18)
- Higher Education’s Insatiable Appetite for Doing More Will Be Its Undoing (CHE 7/29/18)
- Is Jerry Brown’s Chipotle Model the Right Recipe for California Universities? (CALmatters 6/12/18)
- Mayim Bialik Declines to Speak at Commencement, Cites Support of AFSCME (Daily Bruin 5/31/18)
- Civil Rights Groups Protest Proposed Restrictions on Middle East Studies Funding (Palestine Legal 5/18/18)
- UMass-Boston Faculty Votes No Confidence in System’s Leaders Over Purchase of Small College (CHE 5/15/18)
- Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story (LARB 5/10/18)
- We Don’t Need No Education? (Boston Review 5/9/18)
- UI Faculty Camp Out at Bruce Harreld's Office, Demand Meeting (Press-Citizen 5/9/18)
- Columbia and the Long Struggle for Graduate Student Employee Rights (Tropics of Meta 5/5/18)
- Response to 60 Minutes (Office of the President 5/1/18)
- Columbia’s War On Labor (New Republic 5/1/18)
- In UK Universities There is a Daily Erosion of Integrity (The Guardian 4/24/18)
- University of California Union Votes for Strike, Commencement Speakers Urged to Boycott (Daily News 4/19/18)
- Why Teachers Are Adopting a More Militant Politics (New Republic 4/18/18)
- To Examine Society and Try to Change it (Public Books 4/9/18)
- Herbst Blasts Proposal To Turn UConn Into 'Entrepreneurship University' (Courant 4/3/18)
- Duncan Revises Again: Courage and Betsy DeVos (Curmudgucation 4/2/18)
- Whatever Happened to the Polytechnics? Part 2 (Andrew McGettigan 2/28/18)
- Whatever Happened to the Polytechnics? Part 1 (Andrew McGettigan 2/27/18)
- Whose University Is It Anyway? (LARB 2/22/18)
- University Lecturers Begin Strike Action Over Pensions (Guardian 2/22/18)
- UW Madison AAUP Letter to President Cross (Academe Blog 2/6/18)
- Kentucky Governor Seeks to Kill State's University Press (IHE 1/29/18)
- Why We Have Free Speech on University Campuses, and Why I Will Never Take a Call From the Stanford Review Again (Stanford Daily 1/18/18)
- Facing the Reality of the Trump Regime (AAUP 1/17/18)
2017
- House GOP Pushes Innovation and Deregulation with Higher Education Act Overhaul (IHE 12/14/17)
- New Report Says Improving Educational Quality, Completion and Increasing Affordability is Everyone's Business (IHE 11/30/17)
- U.S. House Committee Leaks Summary of Broad Plan for Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (IHE 11/30/17)
- The Grad Tax Is an Assault on the Public Good (Academe Blog 11/29/17)
- Elitists, Crybabies and Junky Degrees (Wa Po 11/25/17)
- College Administrators: No Easy Answers for Controversial Speakers (IHE 11/14/17)
- No Profit in Betsy DeVos (NYT 10/27/17)
- Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump (Bill Moyers 10/18/17)
- Remaking the University: Metrics Noir (LARB 10/11/17)
- A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed (Boston Review 9/1/17)
- Faculty Members Organize to Fight ‘Fascist’ Interlopers on Campuses (CHE 8/31/17)
- Overview of Higher Education in California (LAO 8/31/17)
- Modeling Condescension to Students (Academe Blog 8/29/17)
- Resolution by UNC Faculty EC on Proposal to Constrain Centers and Institutes (Academe Blog 8/25/17)
- For Moral Clarity, Don't Look to Universities (CHE 8/14/17)
- DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective (NYT 6/30/17)
- Austerity Is Expensive (IHE 6/15/17)
- The Invasion Has Already Begun (Academe Blog 6/10/17)
- In Unprecedented Move, JFC Republicans Allot Millions to Establish Partisan, Conservative Think Tank at UW-Madison (Cognitive Dissidence 6/2/17)
- Purdue’s Massive Blunder (IHE 5/9/17)
- On Graduate Student Unionisation (Invisible Cities 5/5/17)
- Purdue Faculty Votes Against Kaplan Process (IHE 5/5/17)
- Assembly Speaker: "Not Our Desire" To Strip UC's Constitutional Independence (Capital Public Radio 5/3/17)
- Mitch Daniels Wants to Sell the Soul of Public Education: Purdue Faculty Must Stop Him (Academe Blog 5/3/17)
- Requiem for the Public University (Campaign for the Public University 5/2/17)
- Effort to Restore California’s Master Plan Advances (Academe Blog 4/7/17)
- All Students, Including Underserved Populations, Should be Taught the Great Books (IHE 4/3/17)
- Long Island University, Citing Need to Attract Students, Orders Faculty To Trim Core Curriculum (IHE 4/3/17)
- College Professors Articulate Vision “Reclaiming Higher Education for All North Carolinians” (Academe Blog 3/18/17)
- The Myth of the “Marketplace of Ideas” on Campus (New Republic 3/6/17)
- American Authoritarianism and Academic Administration (Academe Blog 2/28/17)
- General Assembly Sends UNC Board Reduction Bill to Cooper (The Charlotte Observer 2/20/17)
- Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities (Iowa Starting Line 2/20/17)
Admin Responses, Faculty, income, strat goal
- A Letter to Iowa Legislators (Academe Blog 2/16/17)
- 'The Great Shame of Our Profession' (CHE 2/12/17)
- Yale Drops ‘White Supremacist’ Name From College, Honors Female Scientist Instead (Huff Po 2/11/17)
- The Polarizing Debate Over How to Restore Faculty Tenure (LAWCHA 2/6/17)
- Trump Victory Emboldens Colleges' Outright Conservatism (Atlantic 2/1/17)
- Jerry Falwell Jr. Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy (CHE 1/31/17)
- Request for Further IU Actions on Trump Executive Orders (Petition 1/30/17)
- Why Scientists Are Planning Their Own March on Washington (Gizmodo 1/25/17)
- Admit, Persist, Graduate: Do They Add Up? (Academe 1/19/17)
- America’s Great Working-Class Colleges (NYT 1/18/17)
2016
- Field of Dreams: Public Higher Education in the United States (LARB 12/13/16)
- Growing Gap Between Flagship State Universities & Public Colleges (Academe Blog 12/9/16)
- PPIC Statewide Survey Californians and Higher Education (PPIC 12/16)
- The Truth About Young Immigrants and DACA (NYT 11/30/16)
- AAUP Condemns Hate Crimes, Endorses Campus Sanctuary Movement (IHE 11/23/16)
- Priorities (UCLAFA 11/10/16)
- Cornell Launches Effort to Cut Administrative Red Tape, Starting with Shadow Work (IHE 11/8/16)
- Book Explores Uses and Abuses of Data to Measure Science at the Institutional and Faculty Levels (IHE 10/25/16)
- Harvard Calls on Employees to Volunteer During Strike (Harvard Crimson 10/10/16)
- If You're Wondering Why NTT Faculty Don't Support Tenure (IHE 10/18/16)
- Defending Labor’s School (Jacobin 9/14/16)
- The Right’s War on College: “Starving the Beast” Exposes the Fight to Destroy America’s Great Public Universities (Salon 9/9/16)
- How Can an Increasingly Popular Academic Review Process Seem More Meaningful to Faculty Members? (IHE 8/16/16)
- Mike Pence’s Record on Education Is One of Turmoil and Mixed Results (NYT 7/19/16)
- Democrats Revise Education Platform; Step Back From Phony “Reform” (Academe Blog 7/13/16)
- Adjunct Professorships Hurt Students and Educators Alike. Is it Time to Abandon Tenure? (Salon 6/30/16)
- Oberlin College Offers Buyouts to Faculty and Staff (Cleveland 6/24/16)
- An Alarming Number Of Cal State Students Go Hungry, And The University Is Trying To Find Ways To Help (Huff Po 6/21/16)
- New California Budget Increases Higher Education Funding, On One Condition (IHE 6/17/16)
- U.S. Proposes Easier Path to Debt Relief for Defrauded Students (CHE 6/13/16)
- California Budget Deal Seeks Nonresident Enrollment Cap at UC (Sac Bee 6/10/16)
- A University of California, for California (Capital & Main 6/9/16)
- The Travesty of Starving Our Best Public Universities (CHE 6/6/16)
- The No Confidence Movement (Atlas of a Difficult 5/30/16)
- The Elephant in the Seminar Room: Should the PhD Be Saved? (LARB 5/26/16)
- The Challengers (and Challenges) in Higher Education Market Reform (Wonkhe 5/17/16)
- The Customer is Always Ripe – For Fleecing (Guardian 5/16/16)
- Trump's Campaign Co-Chair Describes Higher Education Policies Being Developed (IHE 5/13/16)
- The Entrepreneurship Racket (Jacobin 5/12/16)
- Lawsuit Targets American Studies Association's Stance on Israel Academic Boycott (IHE 4/21/16)
- Who's Responsible for the Demise of America's Public Research Universities? (The Atlantic 4/10/16)
- Update to Campus Academic Realignment Initiative Outlines Potential Cost-Cutting Changes (Daily Cal 4/5/16)
- Bernie Sanders is Right: Make Public Colleges Tuition-Free (Journal Sentinel 4/4/16)
- WMU-AAUP on State Divestment From Higher Education (Academe Blog 3/28/16)
- “Thucydides” on Higher-Ed Funding (Academe Blog 3/26/16)
- UC Berkeley Chancellor Unveils New Plan to Fight Sexual Misconduct on Campus (LAT 3/24/16)
- The Significant Differences Between Hillary's and Bernie's Higher Ed Plans (IHE 3/24/16)
- The Mental and Academic Costs of Campus Activism (CHE 3/16/16)
- Save Our Public Universities (Harper's 3/1/16)
- College of Arts and Sciences gets Scrutiny as UO President Schill Continues Shakeup (Register-Guard 2/29/16)
- In Ohio, More Higher-Ed “Innovation” (Academe Blog 2/25/16)
- Achieving the Dream Seeks Stronger Faculty Role in College Completion Agenda (IHE 2/25/16)
- Jeff Selingo’s Mistaken Critique of Free College (Sara Goldrick-Rab 2/24/16)
- How to Help More College Students Graduate (NYT 2/19/16)
- How the Department of Education Could Fix For-Profit Colleges (Student Activism 2/18/16)
- Cardinal Newman and Simon Newman's Similar Challenge (IHE 2/16/16)
- The 'Blame the Campus Liberals' Campaign Targets Yale (Alternet 2/14/16)
- UCSF Admits that the Imposition of Activity Based Workspace at Mission Hall was a Failure (UCSF 2/12/16)
- Well-Intentioned Choices & New Normals (UCLAFA 2/11/16)
- BREAKING: Berkeley Plans a 'New Normal' (IHE 2/10/16)
- No Confidence at City Colleges Chicago, U of Akron (IHE 2/5/16)
- Higher Education Act Overhaul a Long Shot for This Election Year (IHE 2/2/16)
- Open Letter to the University of California, Irvine (Petition 1/31/16)
- #NewHigherEdRules (Sara Goldrick-Rab 1/28/16)
- University of Oregon Drops Multimillion-Dollar Branding Campaign (IHE 1/20/16)
- Mixed Reviews for Plan to Change Tennessee Higher Education Governance (IHE 1/14/16)
- As Justices Weigh Affirmative Action, Michigan Offers an Alternative (NYT 1/4/16)
2015
- At Irvine, Questions About Professorships Funded by a Foundation that Seeks to Change Scholarly Study of Hinduism (IHE 12/21/15)
- UC and Dark Ages? On CS and Math Reqs and Online Learning (Cloudminder 12/15/15)
- Supreme Court Justices Look Anew At Affirmative Action In Texas (Huff Po 12/6/15)
- With Writing, Study Finds, Quality of Assignment and Instruction -- Not Quantity -- Matters (IHE 12/4/15)
- Critique Urges Accreditors to Promote Common Set of Learning Outcomes (IHE 12/3/15)
- Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race (The Nation 11/30/15)
- Tough Things (IHE 11/29/15)
- To Contemplate Is Not To Declare–One Last Time With Feeling (Ragman's Circles 11/24/15)
- When Universities Really Do Destroy the Past, We Don’t Care (Corey Robin 11/22/15)
- The University of Nowhere: The False Promise of “Disruption” (LARB 11/12/15)
- The Errors of Campus Shared Services: We’re Not Making Widgets (Berkeley Blog 11/10/15)
- Cal State Fullerton Upholds Reprimand for Professor Who Wouldn't Assign $180 Textbook (IHE 11/9/15)
- Study Questions Whether Elite College Courses Are of Higher Quality Than Others (IHE 11/9/15)
- Colleges That Shortchange Adjuncts are Ultimately Compromising Students (IHE 11/5/15)
- Study Suggests Instructional Spending Leads to Better Student Employment Outcomes (IHE 11/2/15)
- Growing Criticism of Theory of 'Disruptive Innovation' (IHE 10/26/15)
- Lecture Me. Really. (NYT 10/17/15)
- How Harvard Fights Unions: By Conceding the Union’s Most Basic Claims (Corey Robin 10/14/15)
- The Legacy of Arne Duncan, ‘A Hero in the Education Business’ (The Nation 10/12/15)
- Lecturer Bargaining Blog 2015 (University Council-AFT)
- Anthropology Association Task Force Recommends the Group Take Action in Response to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (IHE 10/6/15)
- College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution (NYT 10/1/15)
- U. of Georgia Bets $4.4 Million That Small Classes Can Bolster Learning (CHE 9/8/15)
- Lawmakers Consider Merging Wisconsin's Two-Year College Systems (IHE 8/12/15)
- Rise in College Food Banks Linked to the Economy and Campus Demographics (LAT 8/3/15)
- UC Estimates Budget for Long-Delayed Payroll Upgrade Will More than Double (Sac Bee 7/23/15)
- Judges Rebuke Limits on Wiping Out Student Loan Debt (NYT 7/17/15)
- Stirring Fear and Hope, U. of Akron Mulls an Aggressive Move Online (CHE 7/15/15)
- A New Look at Apprenticeships as a Path to the Middle Class (NYT 7/13/15)
- There is a Third Way Universities Could Take, Between State and Market (Guardian 7/7/15)
- Faculty Members Criticize Proposed Changes to Gen Ed Accreditation Standards for Engineers (INE 6/26/15)
- New Funding Model Devalues Graduate Research (Needs Attention 6/13/15)
- If We Don’t Hang Together … (Chronicle Vitae 6/11/15)
- Free Public Higher Ed Goes Viral (Changing Universities 6/9/15)
- Stanford Political Science Department Overhauls Undergraduate Major (IHE 5/29/15)
- University of Maine System Considering Umbrella Accreditation for its 7 Campuses (IHE 5/6/15)
- College for the Masses (NYT 4/24/15)
- Portland State Threat to Block Faculty Email Broke Oregon Law, Board Says (CHE 4/21/15)
- Adjuncts Participate in National Day of Action for a Living Wage (IHE 4/16/15)
- Some Gain, Others Fall in Florida's Performance-Based Funding System (IHE 4/10/15)
- Who Will Benefit From University Of California’s New “Global Campus? (Counter Punch 4/9/15)
- Chicago's Chuy Garcia Has a Vision: Progressive Mayors Fighting for Public Education (Nation 4/3/15)
- The University for No One (Changing Universities 3/31/15)
- Alexander Weighing new Accountability Tools, Better Data in Higher Ed Act Rewrite (IHE 3/24/15)
- A Political Crackdown at University of North Carolina (New Yorker 3/19/15)
- A Response to Kevin Carey (IHE 3/15/15)
- The University of Tennessee Is Being Lauded as a Higher-Ed Role Model—Just Not for Its Workers (The Nation 3/6/15)
- Southern New Hampshire U. President takes Temporary Post at Education Department (IHE 3/6/15)
- U. Tennessee System Backtracks on 'De-Tenure' Language (IHE 3/3/15)
- Purdue Employees Protest Plan to Cut Employee Leave Time (IHE 3/2/15)
- At Last, Private Sector Faculty Get Green Light to Unionize (Truthout 2/28/15)
- Walker’s AG and Undergrads Hate His Sex Assault Cut: The 2016 Hopeful Just Made a Bunch of Enemies (Daily Beast 2/27/15)
- A Different Kind of LLP (Cloudminder 2/27/15)
- Adjuncts Deem National Walkout Day a Success (IHE 2/26/15)
- Cracks Starting to Appear in Public Pensions’ Armor (NYT 2/25/15)
- UNC Professors Criticize Move to Close Poverty Center (IHE 2/23/15)
- Ideology Seen as Factor in Closings in University of North Carolina System (NYT 2/19/15)
- UNC Board Panel Wants to Shut Down Center on Poverty Led by Faculty Member who Criticizes Conservatives (IHE 2/19/15)
- New Faculty Model at U. Denver Could be Prototype for Reform (IHE 2/17/15)
- President Eloy Ortiz Oakley Delivers State of Long Beach City College Address (Press Telegram 2/6/15)
- How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging (NYT 2/6/15)
- Stage III (UCLAFA 1/30/15)
- UCSA Demands Greater Fiscal Transparency of Regents (Daily Cal 1/27/15)
- The Day the Purpose of College Changed (CHE 1/26/15)
- Disparate Education Plans From Obama and Cuomo (NYT 1/22/15)
- Berkeley Plans to Build a Global Campus, 10 Miles From Home (CHE 1/22/15)
- Curiosity and the Ideal (Academic) Workplace (IHE 1/14/15)
- More States Tie Money to Colleges’ Performance, but That May Not Work (CHE 1/14/15)
- UC-AFT Proposes New Way to Create Affordability and Access with Quality (Changing Universities 1/9/15)
- Essay on Teaching the Great Books to Low-Income High School Students (IHE 1/9/15)
- Intervening With High Performing, Low-Income Students Changes Enrollment Patterns, Study Finds (IHE 1/5/15)
- California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty (LAT 1/3/15)
- The Tea Leaves Games, The Already Baked, And All Those 'If -Then' Promises (Cloudminder 1/2/15)
2014
- Maybe Colleges Have Gone Too Far with Athletics (LAT 12/31/14)
- University in Alabama Ends Football Program, Angering Just About Everyone (LAT 12/31/14)
- NLRB Ruling Shifts Legal Ground on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges (IHE 12/22/14)
- 2-Year Colleges Will Get Chance to Offer Baccalaureates In Some Areas (LAT 12/21/14)
- Competencies and Certificates (Hack Education 12/11/14)
- A Call for Big Changes to Meet a Big Challenge at Community Colleges (CHE 12/18/14)
- ASU English by the Numbers: It Ain't Pretty (IHE 12/18/14)
- Critics Say College Graduation Rates Don't Tell the Whole Story (LAT 12/17/14)
- ACE Creates Alternative Credit Consortium (IHE 12/16/14)
- Brown, Legislature Study Ways to Avoid UC, Cal State Tuition Hikes (LAT 12/10/14)
- Compromise Bill Would Keep Education Spending Mostly Flat for Rest of Fiscal Year (CHE 12/10/14)
- Rethinking the Library Proves a Divisive Topic at Many Liberal Arts Institutions (IHE 12/10/14)
- Senate’s Funding Proposal Places Burden on UC Students (Daily Bruin 12/8/14)
- Tom Harkin Wants To Take Money From College Students To Pay Reviled Loan Contractors (Huff Po 12/6/14)
- Oregon Grad Students Warned of Deportation (Daily Nous 12/6/14)
- UC’s Rising Tuition Sparks Bill to End College System’s Autonomy (SFGate 12/5/14)
- The Further Criminalisation of Student Protest (Campaign for the Public University 12/4/14)
- Birgeneau on Parenting and Tuition Hikes (Cloudminder 12/4/14)
- Teaching Fellows Strike UO (Register Guard 12/2/14)
- If UC Wants Public Support For Its Contest With The Governor, It Needs to Fix Problems (UCLAFA 11/30/14)
- Universities Are Focusing More on Undergraduate Research Projects (LAT 11/27/14)
- Colleges’ Prestige Doesn’t Guarantee a Top-Flight Learning Experience (CHE 11/20/14)
- Tuition Hikes at The University of California: A Battle for UC's Soul (LAT 11/17/14)
- Connecticut Faculty Push Back on Systemwide Reform Plans (IHE 11/17/14)
- Public Charter Schools That Failed to Meet Texas Standards Are Still Operating (NYT 11/15/14)
- At College Where Alumni Pockets Are Shallow, a Struggle to Raise Money (NYT 11/14/14)
- Senate Leader Offers Alternative to UC Tuition Hike Proposal (LAT 11/13/14)
- Behind the Campaign To Purge Textbooks of "Pro-Muslim Bias" in Texas (io9 11/12/14)
- New Report Highlights Challenges in Establishing International Joint or Dual Degree Programs (IHE 11/12/14)
- Career-Focused Majors Can Strengthen, Not Threaten, Liberal-Arts Colleges (CHE 11/11/14)
- Panel Criticizes ASA's Israel Boycott at Association's Annual Meeting (IHE 11/7/14)
- Treasury Department Endorses Student Loan Deals Slammed By Elizabeth Warren (Huff Po 11/6/14)
- Competency-Based Health Profession Credentials From the University of Texas System (IHE 11/6/14)
- Competency-Based Education Arrives at Three Major Public Institutions (IHE 10/28/14)
- Tufts Adjuncts Tout Pay and Job Security Gains in First Union Contract (IHE 10/28/14)
- How To Reverse and Prevent State Disinvestment in Higher Education (IHE 10/27/14)
- Wake Forest to Drop Traditional MBA Program (IHE 10/23/14)
- UC Leaders Consider Limiting Out-of-State Enrollment (LAT 10/22/14)
- Goals for Enrollment and Tuition Revenue Elude Many Colleges (CHE 10/13/14)
- Effort to Define Degree-Level Skills and Knowledge Makes Slow, Steady Progress (IHE 10/8/14)
- The Plot Against Public Education (Politico 10/6/14)
- National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned (IHE 10/6/14)
- The Wilds of Education (NYT 9/27/14)
- Document: Final Report and Recommendations from Chancellor’s Task Force on Academics & Athletics (Daily Cal 9/26/14)
- Ego, Money and False Promises: Michelle Rhee’s Big Secret and the Collapse of Education “Reform” (Salon 9/19/14)
- Cal State Trustees Raise Scenario of Transfer-Only University System (LAT 9/9/14)
- 300 Protest Take-Backs in UMass Amherst Contracts (MTA 9/14)
- What's in a Name? For Cal State Schools, it's Brand Recognition (LAT 8/31/14)
- Bill Allowing Community Colleges to Grant 4-Year Bachelor’s Degrees Goes to Governor (Daily Cal 8/28/14)
- Excellent Sheep Run the World: Part II - Michelle Rhee (IHE 8/26/14)
- Students at the Barricades (Jacobin 8/24/14)
- California Legislature Approves Bachelor's Degrees at Community Colleges (IHE 8/22/14)
- Michelle Rhee’s Real Legacy: Here’s What’s Most Shameful about her Reign (Salon 8/22/14)
- Teaching Is Not a Business (NYT 8/16/14)
- U. of Washington Students Say They Can Work to Help Pay Tuition (CHE 6/9/14)
- Four Faculty Members Offer to Job Share a President's Duties and Salary (IHE 6/9/14)
- Priorities and “Productivity” (University Affairs 5/26/14)
- Prison Program Turns Inmates Into Intellectuals (NYT 5/30/14)
- A World Digital Library Is Coming True! (NYBooks 5/22/14)
- University Presses Under Fire (Nation 5/6/14)
- The Role of a Public Intellectual in a Time of Crisis (Academe Blog 4/29/14)
- Portland State University Faculty Union Protests Administration Plan to Sever Email Access for Faculty Who Strike (The Oregonian 3/24/14)
- UC Hospital Strike Averted by Tentative Contract Agreement (LAT 3/23/14)
- In Curricular Clashes, Completion Can Vie With Quality (CHE 3/19/14)
- Chicago Teachers Boycott Tests; UIC Faculty Strike; NC Teachers Mobilize (New Politics 3/5/14)
- Time for a Union? (IHE 2/21/14)
- Service and Patient-Care Worker Union Announce 5-Day Strike (Daily Cal 2/20/14)
- The Pedagogy of Discovery (IHE 2/19/14)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Why the UIC Faculty Strike Matters (Chicago Sun 2/18/14)
- Strike Authorized Among Service and Patient-Care Workers (Daily Cal 2/14/14)
- Faculty on Strike (Jacobin 2/14/14)
- For Some Elite Colleges, It's Advanced Placement vs. Gen-Ed (CHE 2/12/14)
- Rejecting the Standardized Test (IHE 2/12/14)
- Is 'Undermatching' Overrated? (IHE 2/10/14)
- Saving the Library (IHE 2/6/14)
- Is Free Better? (IHE 2/6/14)
- Tennessee Governor Urges 2 Free Years of Community College and Technical School (NYT 2/4/14)
- The Latest Dangerous Education “Reform”: Tracking Students’ Data (Salon 1/30/14)
- Cal State Leader Lays out Plan to Speed Graduation (LAT 1/29/14)
- General Education's Remake (IHE 1/23/14)
- Is Citing History a Threat? (IHE 1/20/14)
2013
- Rutgers Boycott Expands (IHE 12/13/13)
- Ravitch Answers Gates (Washington Post 11/30/13)
- UC Union Workers to Hold Strike on Nov. 20 (Daily Bruin 11/8/13)
- UC Union Authorizes a Possible Strike at Campuses, Hospitals (LAT 11/1/13)
- Still in Favor of the Flip (IHE 10/30/13)
- UC (Doesn’t) Care (Santa Barbara Independent 10/14/13)
- Changes in U. of California's Medical Plans Worry Some Employees (CHE 10/10/13)
- UC Imposes Pension Terms on Employees; Union Protests (LAT 9/25/13)
- Students Demand End to NYU Ties With Deathtrap Factories in Bangladesh (TheNation 9/17/13)
- The Hidden Truth Behind Teach for America’s Political Empire (Salon 9/17/13)
- Kick the Reform Habit (IHE 9/3/13)
- The Two Cultures of Educational Reform (NYT 8/26/13)
- Newco and Its Discontents (Research Enterprise 8/23/13)
- How Much Would it Cost to get rid of Tuition at Public Higher Ed? Not as Much as You Would Think (StrikeDebt 8/15/13)
- Don’t You Dare Say "Disruptive" (New Republic 8/15/13)
- Former Intern Wins Back Wages From University (IHE 8/9/13)
- UCSF Ordered To Pay Back Wages To Former Intern (IBTimes 8/8/13)
- Unpaid Interns: Silent No More (NYT 7/20/13)
- CUNY Faculty Overwhelmingly Opposes Imposed Curriculum Overhaul (CHE 6/1/13)
- Towards a University Without Fear (Amsler 5/16/13)
- AAUP Calls for Reforms in Oversight of Human Subject Research (IHE 3/6/13)
2011
- Circular Firing Squad (IHE 5/5/11)
- National Strategic Narrative (Wilson Center 2011)
2010
- Caution about Crisis in Education Narratives (NewYorker 9/27/10)
- AAUP Calls For Tenuring Contingent Workers (IHE 9/7/10)
- What the Public U "Reset" Should Look Like (U Penn Ed Prof., CHE 8/24/10)
- New Faculty Majority Begins Push for Adjunct Unemployment Benefits (CHE 5/24/10)
- NYU Grad Student Union Seeks Recognition (NYT 4/27/10)
- Unappreciated Engineering Dept Packs Up, Changes Schools (CHE 3/31/10)
- A Strategy Beyond Marches (Beyond Chron 3/10/10)
- Race and the Protests--Another View (ReclaimUC 3/8/10)
- California's Student Uprising (FDL 3/5/10)
- March 4th and After (Bob Samuels, HuffPo 3/5/10)
- March on Everywhere (IHE 3/5/10)
- "From Anger to Action" (Calitics 3/5/10)
- UCSD and Black Student Union Announce Agreement to Improve Campus Climate (UCSD News 3/4/10)
- Don't Equate Incivility with Racism (Catherine Liu 2/27/10)
- UCB Violating Due Process in Sentencing of Student (UnCivilProcedure 1/23/10)
- UCI Students Continue to Protest Fee Hikes (OC Register 1/4/10)
2009
- UCMeP: Create the Unison! On Privatizing Prisons and Universities (2009-2010)
- Map of North American Student Activism and Protest (Maps 2009-2010)
- Map of European University Occupations (Maps 2009-2010)
- Questions about Zachary Bowin's UCB Arrest (UCB Budget Crisis 12/17/09)
- Analysis of Student Advocate's Report on Open University Arrests (Student Activism 12/17/09)
- Berkeley Student Advocate Office Criticizes Open University Arrests (Student Activism 12/16/09)
- Adjunct Unionization on the Rise (CHE 12/15/09)
- Why Occupations? C. Cole Interviews Berkeley Analyst of Student Movements in Berlin (Catherine Cole, Shane Boyle 12/13/09)
- On Occupation and the International Student Movement (Shane Boyle 12/13/09)
- No Free Pass for Berkeley Chancellor to Shut Down Organizing (Yaman Salahi 12/12/09)
- Magnify the Blows (Communal Desiring Machine 12/3/09)
Ongoing
- "Plan For Change 2010-2030" (New Faculty Majority)
- Student Activism Blog
- Reclamations