Remaking II: Long Revolution
Thursday, February 27, 2014

AFSCME REACHES TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT FOR SERVICE WORKERS WITH UC

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AFSCME announced today that they had reached a tentative agreement with UC and that the strike planned for next week has been called off. ...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Is Higher Ed Privatization Helping to Destroy the Economic Future?

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David Dayen has a provocative article at the New Republic on the effects of student debt on household formation.  Drawing on a range of ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Can A Faculty Strike Break a Legislative Loop?

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Out here in California, our Democrat-controlled state government has been busy repainting higher ed austerity as abundance. Last week'...
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UIC Faculty Go On Strike (UPDATED BELOW)

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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...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace

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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...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

English Departments at a Crossroads

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By Michael Moon (Emory University)   After twenty years of teaching in English departments at two other universities, eight years ago...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

The More Things Change...

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Governor Brown announced the names of his first 4 nominations to the Board of Regents .  Two of his appointments (Richard Blum and Norman...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Jerry Brown's Back-Door Support for Privatization

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As Chris noted in his last post , Governor Brown's proposed higher education budget contained few surprises.  Unfortunately, that me...
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Austerity Premises Refuted, Governor's Budget Preaches Austerity

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There are no nasty surprises in the governor's budget proposal for higher education. For UC it's pretty much what we've hear...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

What is Privatization? Or is Berkeley still a public university?

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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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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2014!

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Thank you for reading. Enjoy a fulfilling rest.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Brad DeLong Repeats the Conventional Wisdom

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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 ...
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