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 Dems agree to budget.  It will cut support for the poor and students.

SacBee reports that CA dropped to 35th in Nation on per pupil spending in 2010.  Of course it has gotten worse since. 

UC Berkeley libraries face more cuts.

In the aftermath of Anderson's power play, business schools toot their own horns with the help of the press.

George Skelton continues to offer conservative conventional wisdom on pensions.

You will be stunned to know that faculty are divided about online education.

Mitch Daniels steps up from Governor of Indiana to President of Purdue.

The Stock Market is unhappy.

Michael Gove wants to return England to the 1950s.  Nick Clegg is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the Tories are prepared to sacrifice poor kids for the sake of the better off.