This Week At The Regents (II): The Medical Centers and University Governance

This Week At The Regents (II): The Medical Centers and University Governance

As I mentioned in my post on the Budget, the Regents will be considering a proposal to alter the governing structure of the medical centers.  This...

This Week at the Regents: The Budget

This Week at the Regents: The Budget

This week's Regents meeting's Agenda is chock full of important items.  In particular, UCOP is presenting the 2016-2017 budget proposal along...

The Weak vs. the Wrong, and An Emerging Alternative for Faculty Governance

The Weak vs. the Wrong, and An Emerging Alternative for Faculty Governance

We're many years now into the New Normal for public universities.  We've known for a while that this means permanent budgetary austerity.  We...

Veblen's Nightmare

Veblen's Nightmare

The Chronicle Review gave the title "Professorial Anger, Then and Now" to my essay on Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America, which has...

STATEMENT OF THE UNC FACULTY ASSEMBLY ON THE UNC PRESIDENT SEARCH PROCESS (WITH NEWS UPDATES)

STATEMENT OF THE UNC FACULTY ASSEMBLY ON THE UNC PRESIDENT SEARCH PROCESS (WITH NEWS UPDATES)

As you may have noticed, recently university governing boards have been appointing Presidents and Chancellors under conditions of increasing...