California finally passed its latest terrible budget. Amidst an avalanche of cuts and regressive tax increases, it cut the University of Ca...

The best tabulation of the final compromise stimulus for research is AAAS's . A good summary of the overall picture for higher ed can b...

Here's the best official pitch I've heard in a while to replace competition among stratified universities with something like the g...

I have started an archive of materials on the French university strikes (in French). The most typical thing about the Sarkozy "reforms...

Any illusion that higher ed has entered a new era of as a high government priority has been shattered by the Congressional negotiations over...

The formal coun t is finally in: university endowments fell an average of 22.5% in the first six months of Fiscal Year 2008-09 (starting Ju...

A Personal Finance column in today's Los Angeles Times has one of the clearer sagas I've read of how a college student can get caugh...

Also from the Chronicle, but a very different tone http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/12/8770n.htm Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Obama Praises H...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed reported President-Elect Obama's pick for Education as neutral at best for higher ed. Critics cited in the p...

The bad news in higher ed is always the same: some person with great power showing they understand nothing about higher education funding. A...

The best summary of the very serious results of the report, Measuring Up 2008 is in Inside Higher Ed. More on this report soon: The states...

Harvard's endowment losses joined other endowment losses in the New York Times today. The endowment lost 22% of its value in the last...

Here's a nice compilation of some recent studies that show that privatized medical care adds costs rather than reduces them. It stands...

I've been writing to my budget pals for a few months about when the toxic waste is going to surface in university endowments. It's ...

We're starting to get the negative numbers for pension and endowment funds that pay for faculty and staff retirement and also support ed...