“I do not know of any organization that achieves budget discipline from the bottom up. We need to be sufficiently top-down to get the job ...

UC"s latest image disaster came in the form of what I dearly hope is UC's final 2010 appearance in the California press.  Today...

By Michael Meranze With so extensive a demand, it follows that a very large part of our social comment--and nearly all that is well regard...

State officals are caught in a mental loop, and it is nicely visualized by state treasurer Bill Lockyer's forlorn op-ed in the Los Angel...

The Los Angeles Times reports that there is a growing sentiment among legislators in Sacramento that they should have greater oversight and...

Whatever message the Regents wanted to send by passing the Commission on the Future recommendations, the cuts message is what came through....

A UC colleague writes from Italy: The riots broke out after Berlusconi's government – which is, among other things, attempting to pass ...

The Regents met today to discuss UCOF (which they approved) and also President Yudof's Pension proposal (modified to protect the interes...

The short, special Regents meeting on Monday, December 13 will consider pension changes and the ratification of the recommendations of the ...

By Michael Meranze Next came Fraud, and he had on, Like Eldon, an ermined gown; His big tears, for he wept well, Turned to mill-stones ...

The Commission on the future has released its final report.  You can read it here.   Coverage in the LAT can be found here .  The Sacrame...

By Michael Meranze I met Murder on the Way— He had a mask Like Castlereagh Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven bloodhounds followed ...

In celebration of having skipped the shopping hell of post-Thanksgiving Friday, I caught up on some tech articles, trying unsystematically t...

In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice; in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear  ---William B...

Bob Samuels reports, "First of all, they voted to change fees to tuition without discussion and with a quick vote. I thought this was a...