McKenzie Wark offers up some thoughts on how Occupy Wall Street is offering an allegory to counter an abstraction. And how that is a good thing. (H/t to Casey Blake)
The AFT and Bob Samuels offer an update on Occupy LA. And here is another view.
And there is emerging information about plans for college occupations.
Former Chancellors call for new funding model for UC. (h/t to Catherine Cole)
Working without the typical UC senior management blind spot, Stanton Glantz and Eric Hays update their "restoration" report to show that moving UC into a future defined as what the state had collectively already built in 2000 (including low tuition) would now, after the Brown Cuts, cost $49 / year instead of $32 (at the median). People who don't like the median (half of all taxpayers), should note that the restoration cost to taxpayers who make $400-499,000 (the top 5%) about $4400.
SDSU establishes second LGBT major in the country.
Bernanke is worried. Blames everyone else. Maybe it would help if he read this.
Yale's endowment grew 22% last year.
But while some wealth grew poverty grew too.
Wow, the former chancellors have got their wagons in a rationalized circle. Push tuition to $24K, push state support to tuition subsidies, rely on "financial aid" for the rest, and make the rich folks pay for their kids. It's still a bargain, and raising the price will add prestige, and oh, hell, what's the point? May as well say, "vouchers for the poor" and then, heck, use them anywhere, like ITT, say, or Phoenix. Gosh, it can get better. "Education stamps", like food stamps, for folks priced out of education, by those that clearly haven't been. The rich getting subsidized to attend UC--how many of UC's students are affected? What pimple of difference could it possibly make? And if they have no advantage in attending UC, how many of those simply go anywhere in the world they want to?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not adding up. The blimp is coming down. Oh, the humanities!
"education stamps"! Gerry forget TT you have a future in state politics. run for the assembly!
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