The Times of London - of all papers - had a good piece by Alexi Mostrous on Martin Amis's 80,000 pounds a year from the U of Manchest...

Inside Higher Ed has a report on university endowment growth last year. If you follow this topic the data won't surprise you. The ric...

Everybody hates the incessantly rising costs of medical care. Commenting on the latest inflation numbers, the economist Dean Baker puts the...

Business Week has published a piece with an excellent array of accessible statistics on the inequality boom in higher ed. It has a good fi...

The American Association of Medical Colleges has published a study on "Diversity of U.S. Medical Students by Family Income" which...

No group helps itself by always favoring its fortunate few - or by using them as the index of its condition. College language and literature...

It's a question of numbers. All sorts of great people are part of the Duke community - no disrespect to them - but Duke's annual e...

I finally commented on my forthcoming book about the troubles of the public university, but it's on my other blog. What the hell - the...

This is the story that wouldn't die. If you've completely missed this one, don't start now, so I won't fill you in. But no...

One big thing universities do is draw conclusions that are based on evidence. The evidence has to be looked at carefully, sifted, compared,...

2019 Silo Thinking and the Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/25/19) Retiree Healthcare Benefits Are a Target for Cost Cutt...

2017 Academic Tenure or Public vs Private Reasons?...Katehi- raising more new questions (Cloudminder 4/2/17) UC Spent Nearly $1 Million...

2016 Academic Freedom 2.0 (The Good Enough Professor 4/15/16) 2015 U. of Illinois Will Pay Salaita $600,000 to Settle Lawsuits (CHE ...

2015 To Fix California's Colleges, Reform Prop. 13 by Taxing Corporations More (LAT 11/2/15) UC Students, Administrators Come to Pr...

2018 Administrators, Students and Activists Take Stock Three Years After 2015 Missouri Protests (IHE 9/12/18) 2016 Missouri Board Rej...