The California state legislature is set to adjourn without a budget . UC officials remain guardedly optimistic that last year's "on...

Among the useful material in the Daily Planet story on Regent Richard C. Blum's significant investment stakes in the for-profit higher ...

Catherine Liu’s call to remove Richard Blum from the Board of Regents points to structural questions that confront anyone concerned with re...

Frontline has a great segment on for profit education. Today the Senate is holding a hearing on a report drafted by Senator Tom Harkin on ...

Berkeley Daily delivers a story about Richard Blum that is a MUST read. Please take the time to do so. I know it's summer and we are al...

By Michael Meranze UCOP’s “ expanded recommendations ” to UCOF envision the University as an increasingly centralized, hierarchical, routini...

Coverage of UC this week included a story in the Sacramento Bee on how the University's stated poverty hasn't prevented it from rai...

The UC Commission on the Future is having its fifth meeting tomorrow, June 14, for its second consideration of formal recommendations.  UCO...

by Catherine M. Cole On June 11, UCOP made public a set of "expanded recommendations" to the UC Commission on the Future which is ...

Most of the UCOF  recommendations summarize common sense that has been around for years (seek administrative efficiencies . . .)  If they a...

by Tobias Higbie UCLA History Department What follows is a quick review and analysis of the proposals for expanded online education refle...

The graphic below follows on those of two previous posts (one on UC's corrosive compromises , another on a better budget strategy .) It ...

By Michael Meranze UCOP’s continuing insistence that the state is, and will continue to be, an “unreliable partner” has placed them in lock...

On occasion, in private conversations, UC officials will admit that their strategy with the state has not been working.  But the next senten...

by Anonymous One valuable point made by the recent UCOF report is that extramurally-funded research is not a net source of revenue to UC, un...