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 she did not support online ed with enough fanaticism.  (h/t Peter Krapp)  More can be found here.

Do MOOC's actually have a viable business plan?

NYT is closing down its online learning effort.

Who will meet the demand for continuing education?

New President of Mellon Foundation hopes to help reshape Higher Ed.

Florida's testing system blows up.

Latest news from Spain:  Banks get bailed out.  The Spanish people?  Not so much.