The undeniable crisis of student debt has focused political debate on the question of college costs.  Unfortunately state and federal po...

Does California, or any other "knowledge economy," want to have public research universities, in the sense of paying for them? ...

by Stanton A. Glantz and Christopher Newfield   While Gov. Jerry Brown's interest in online education captured the most headlines last...

Antonello da Messina, St. Jerome in his Study (1460s). The quantitative trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb became famous after the publication ...

If you're an investor in educational services and are following MOOCmania in the newspapers or in the mind of the technopublicist Th...

State political leaders are now using board meetings in the Cal State and University of California systems as political theaters.  Every c...

Mark Yudof in 2008, before his arrival at the University of California These materials will be expanded and edited on a rolling basis. ...

This morning I found myself on KQED's Forum with Michael Krassny program to discuss online education with San Jose State President Mo...

I was only able to listen to a portion of the Regent's session on Online Education (I caught the last 45 minutes of the UCOP discussio...

California continues to show public universities the way towards a permanent austerity.  Governor Jerry Brown's budget proposal for 2...

Click  here for a full rush transcript  of the event called "Rebooting California Higher Education last week.  Many thanks to Jenna ...

University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz, 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams. By Ann Bermingham (UCSB) and Catherine Cole (UCB) For the firs...

Photo from " UC Online Courses Fail to Lure Outsiders," San Francicso Chronicle. UCLA's "Reboot" with MOOCs ext...

Photo: Granada parking lot, Santa Barbara, CA. By 6 am this Sunday morning a neon sign was blinking silently inside my head. It flashed ...

2012 was like all years full of heroic efforts and thoughtless abetting of great evil.  In American higher education, it was the year in w...