AFSCME announced today that they had reached a tentative agreement with UC and that the strike planned for next week has been called off. ...

David Dayen has a provocative article at the New Republic on the effects of student debt on household formation.  Drawing on a range of ...

Out here in California, our Democrat-controlled state government has been busy repainting higher ed austerity as abundance. Last week'...

The Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago have gone on a two-day strike to protest wage compression (for both tenure-track an...

by Philip E. Lewis, Vice-President Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Let me try to set the stage for discussion of our announced topic, the c...

By Michael Moon (Emory University)   After twenty years of teaching in English departments at two other universities, eight years ago...

Governor Brown announced the names of his first 4 nominations to the Board of Regents .  Two of his appointments (Richard Blum and Norman...

As Chris noted in his last post , Governor Brown's proposed higher education budget contained few surprises.  Unfortunately, that me...

There are no nasty surprises in the governor's budget proposal for higher education. For UC it's pretty much what we've hear...

By Anonymous In the last month of 2013 we were treated to two celebrations of the enduring public character of UC Berkeley.    Not sur...

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The Future of Sather Gate? In a recent post at the Berkeley Blog , economist Brad DeLong offered an unusually succinct example of what ...