She Knows There's No Success Like Failure And That Failure's No Success At All

She Knows There's No Success Like Failure And That Failure's No Success At All

So it appears that we will have a budget either today or tomorrow.  The Governor has given up his search for phantom Republican support and has agreed to sign a slightly modified version of the budget that the Democrats in the Legislature passed a few weeks ago.  It is not a pretty picture. The new budget agreement is built upon the cuts that were already imposed in...

Budget Day

Budget Day

Updated Below: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Today is the deadline for the Legislature to pass a budget without having their pay frozen.  So it seems like that something will emerge by the evening.  There is no guarantee that what passes today will actually become the state budget (there is no requirement that Jerry Brown sign it in order to keep his pay from being frozen). ...

Recentering Academic Development

Recentering Academic Development

Over the past two weeks academia has been buried in a blizzard of reports, which is a symptom of the current pandemic of concern about the state of U.S. higher education.  These reports include the Education Trust's Priced Out, about the extent to which rising tuition and funding cuts are hurting low-income students a dull but worthy report from UVa's Miller Center calling...

Unwavering Adherence to Failed Strategies: Analogical Version

Unwavering Adherence to Failed Strategies: Analogical Version

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