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Friday, January 31, 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

English Departments at a Crossroads

By Michael Moon (Emory University)  After twenty years of teaching in English departments at two other universities, eight years ago I moved...

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Saturday, January 18, 2014

The More Things Change...

Governor Brown announced the names of his first 4 nominations to the Board of Regents.  Two of his appointments (Richard Blum and Norman Pattiz)...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Jerry Brown's Back-Door Support for Privatization

As Chris noted in his last post, Governor Brown's proposed higher education budget contained few surprises.  Unfortunately, that means that his...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Austerity Premises Refuted, Governor's Budget Preaches Austerity

There are no nasty surprises in the governor's budget proposal for higher education. For UC it's pretty much what we've heard: a 5 percent increase...

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

What is Privatization? Or is Berkeley still a public university?

By Anonymous In the last month of 2013 we were treated to two celebrations of the enduring public character of UC Berkeley.   Not surprisingly...