UCSB Students Confront the Isla Vista Murders

UCSB Students Confront the Isla Vista Murders

Each segment of the UCSB-Isla Vista community grieved the dead and wounded in its own way. My experience is that everyone was grieving.  Essentially...

On the Isla Vista Murders: Updated with Links May 26, 27, 28

On the Isla Vista Murders: Updated with Links May 26, 27, 28

I spent the weekend following the unfolding detail about the rampage in Isla Vista, while also trying to find out if one of the victims was a student...

Isla Vista Shootings

Isla Vista Shootings

Memorials May 28th Memorial Paddle Out Memorial at Harder Stadium The Crimes Isla Vista Incident Map (Google) Disturbing Details Released in Isla Vista Massacre (Tyler Hayden, SB Independent) Isla Vista Shooting: Echoes of David Attias (Nick Welsh, SB Independent) The Problem with Changes in Media Coverage of Mass Shootings (Jess McKillop, UCSB) The Victims Parents...

When Public Universities Make Supposedly Dumb People Smart

When Public Universities Make Supposedly Dumb People Smart

Two recent stories show that public research universities can revive high-end educational quality.  I've been arguing (here and here)...

Arguing for University Upgrades in our Suffocating Political Time

Arguing for University Upgrades in our Suffocating Political Time

I'm convinced that the salvation of public universities depends on offering greater educational intensity than has been possible before....

University Week: Are Faculty Ready to Drive the Bus?

University Week: Are Faculty Ready to Drive the Bus?

Since loud media doubts about the university's value have been the backdrop of my entire academic career, I wasn't shocked to look at the back page...

Cells, Classrooms, and State Disinvestment in Higher Ed

Cells, Classrooms, and State Disinvestment in Higher Ed

As you have probably seen, over the last couple of months there has been a series of reports, position papers and dubious arguments about the past...

Imagining the Educational Upgrade: Deltopia in Review Part 3

Imagining the Educational Upgrade: Deltopia in Review Part 3

For me, the tragic irony of the phony Deltopia "student riot" narrative (Part 2), and of ye olde collective slander of UCSB students as partying too...