AFSCME REACHES TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT FOR SERVICE WORKERS WITH UC

AFSCME REACHES TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT FOR SERVICE WORKERS WITH UC

AFSCME announced today that they had reached a tentative agreement with UC and that the strike planned for next week has been called off.  As...

Is Higher Ed Privatization Helping to Destroy the Economic Future?

Is Higher Ed Privatization Helping to Destroy the Economic Future?

David Dayen has a provocative article at the New Republic on the effects of student debt on household formation.  Drawing on a range of studies,...

Can A Faculty Strike Break a Legislative Loop?

Can A Faculty Strike Break a Legislative Loop?

Out here in California, our Democrat-controlled state government has been busy repainting higher ed austerity as abundance. Last week's Legislative...

UIC Faculty Go On Strike (UPDATED BELOW)

UIC Faculty Go On Strike (UPDATED BELOW)

The Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago have gone on a two-day strike to protest wage compression (for both tenure-track and non-tenure-track...

Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace

Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace

by Philip E. Lewis, Vice-President Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Let me try to set the stage for discussion of our announced topic, the cost of program...