USA University - UC Needs New Leadership

The UC Regents have finally released Justice Moreno's Report into the allegations that UCOP interfered with last year's audit.  As ...

USA University - Academic Freedom Again

As you have probably seen, George Ciccariello-Maher, a political scientist at Drexel University has come under fire for tweeting "all ...

USA University - UC's United Front for Saving the Public Univer . . . Oh

I only skimmed the content of the decree because my eyes were drawn to the mighty list of signatures, at left, that took up half the page.  ...

USA University - The Decline and Fall of Shared Governance at UC

President Napolitano's formal proposal for a new pension tier has been posted in the Agenda for next week's Regents' Meeting.  ...

USA University - Managerial Disconnect

The scandal engulfing UC Davis Chancellor Katehi is only the latest sign of the disconnection between our managerial elite and the rest of ...

USA University - Pensions, Politics, and the Failures of Leadership

The Task Force charged with making a silk purse from the sow's war of President Napolitano's pension agreement with Governor Brown i...

USA University - This Week At The Regents (II): The Medical Centers and University Governance

As I mentioned in my post on the Budget , the Regents will be considering a proposal to alter the governing structure of the medical center...

USA University - A University Without Shared Governance is Not a University

By Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University             Tenure is what makes shared governance real and shared governance is one of the prim...

USA University - Faculty - Admin Cluster Collision at University of Illinois Chicago

I've been buried in final book manuscript revisions, and have been noticing that I'm increasingly using the term "management...

USA University - Crisis over Expression Continues at UC Irvine

Yesterday, a meeting of the UC Irvine student government Legislative Council was cancelled due to what campus police determined was a "...