Links for Thursday June, 28, 2012
Jerry signs the budget. Mostly cuts but hoping for increased revenues. You can read the budget summary here. CBP offers some thoughts.
UC...
The Harvard Letter from the Feds
15 hours ago
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
What is the Future of Rebenching at UC?
The
document below was written by two members of the Academic Council who served on
the Rebenching Task Force. Susan Gillman is the chair of...
Monday, June 25, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Links for Monday, June 25, 2012
The State budget deal may prevent tuition hikes if Jerry's tax initiatives pass. More info here and here and here. In the last "here" Dan Mitchell also provides the rundown on the defeat of the Governor and UCOP's proposal to lessen oversight of UC.
But the trigger cuts will be brutal for K-12 education.
Bob Meister proposes using NRT to save the Master Plan.
Berkeley...
Friday, June 22, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Links for Friday June 22, 2012
The California Cigarette Tax has been defeated.
Here are some details on the budget agreements.
CPB offers an analysis of Brown's plans for "realignment."
At Berkeley the implementation of "shared services" is postponed. You will be stunned to learn that OE didn't really think things through sufficiently.
AFSCME protests as negotiations with UC start.
UC drops lawsuit...
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Links for Thursday June 21, 2012
UC names new Provost to replace Larry Pitts.
ReclaimUC offers another look at the hidden logic of administration corporatization with an eye on the struggles at UVA. Even a Business School Dean can see some problems.
Crooked Timber provides some historical perspective.
UVA appoints a new interim President. As people start exiting the University.
Jerry and the...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
More on UVa's Management Civil War
At Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik reads some FOIAed emails from UVa's Board of Visitors to suggest that the management struggle I discussed at length yesterday ("All Hell Breaks Loose") took place in part on the terrain of online education. Board chair ("rector")
Dragas used language similar to some of the columns that were being shared among board members, saying "We also believe...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
All Hell Breaks Loose at the Professional-Managerial Divide: University of Virginia Edition
Last week, a faction of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors (their Trustees or Regents) organized enough Board votes to tell UVa president...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Links for Friday June 15, 2012
Tuition at California's public universities is rising at a faster rate than anywhere else in the nation.
Unemployment rate in CA "drops" to 10.8%.
Today is budget day in Sacramento.
Geithner wants Bowles-Simpson. Guess austerity works for those Wall Street guys.
Obama to limit deportation of some "Dream Act" eligible young people.
American Council of Trustees and...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
How the Public Pays for Privatization: the UCLA Anderson Example
The public response to the UCLA Anderson School of Management privatization has not been warm. Speaking on an episode of Which Way LA?, Anthony...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Links for Tuesday, June 12, 2012
UC Davis Academic Senate condemns Administration and Legal Counsel for threatening academic freedom. You can find the background and more information on the Senate's analysis here.
Oh, and the UC Davis Academic Senate also released its report on the pepper spraying last fall. Not good news for the administration or the Chancellor.
More on Anderson here and...
Monday, June 11, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Links for Monday, June 11, 2012
LAT notices that there is a leadership crisis in CA higher education. Unfortunately they don't realize how deep it runs.
Jerry and Legislative Dems meet to decide how much to hurt the poor in this year's budget.
Anti-Union Ballot measure comes to CA. Unions fight back.
In "As we become more like Virginia news" UVA Chancellor is forced out. Apparently...
Friday, June 8, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Links for Friday, June 8, 2012
Anderson Business School leads the privatization charge: UCLA decides it is okay to pretend Anderson still has a public mission while it caters to its private donors.
Iowa considers ending the use of tuition to support financial aid. So do UC Regents.
CSU Trustees spend money on the homes of campus presidents while raising tuition.
Unemployment for Law School graduates...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Quality Public Higher Ed: From Udacity to Theory Y
Those who have long claimed that public funding cuts do lower the educational quality of public universities are finally seeing the connection go mainstream....
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Links for June 2, 2012
More than 10 Arrested at UCLA protest over low numbers of under-represented students.
The NYT finally notices that state cuts are destroying public higher ed in California.
Talks between Students and Government in Quebec have collapsed. Protests continue.
State funds and federal loans are weakening Community Colleges and funneling resources to for-profit institutions. ...
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