UC Needs New Leadership

UC Needs New Leadership

The UC Regents have finally released Justice Moreno's Report into the allegations that UCOP interfered with last year's audit.  As Chris and I...

Remaking is Ten Years Old!

Remaking is Ten Years Old!

This blog turned ten on Sunday, prompting me to wonder whether blog years are longer than kid years, or the other way around. Kid years are longer...

Troubles of the Michigan Model

Troubles of the Michigan Model

How are we doing with the private-goods model? Advocates have defended it by saying that "multiple revenue streams"--tuition, philanthropy, non-resident...

Feeding a Dangerous Fiction, Redux

Feeding a Dangerous Fiction, Redux

The news is that UCOP has legitimated the conventional wisdom that there's a crisis of free speech on campus by funding a center to study it.  But I'm...

UC Loses More Autonomy

UC Loses More Autonomy

In the latest fallout from last spring's disastrous, and disastrously handled, audit, Governor Brown has just signed a new law that tightens up legislative...

Berkeley Disconnect

Berkeley Disconnect

The farce that was MiloFest has now frittered away into failure.  Of course, that will not be the last time that the right-wing attempts to...

Doghouse Pension Politics

Doghouse Pension Politics

Another negative report about the University of California appeared last weekend, this time on the front page of Sunday's Los Angeles Times....

BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University

BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University

In the aftermath of the failure of Milofest, the Berkeley Faculty Association has written an op-ed that raises important questions about the relationship...

Napolitano Sues Trump: Dealing with DACA Termination

Napolitano Sues Trump: Dealing with DACA Termination

Trump presides as the King of Pain, inflicting turmoil and loss on others, seemingly without effort or long-term benefit.  Last week the pain...