USA University - Governor Brown Renews His Commitment to Educational Decline

Governor Brown released his May Revision of the California budget.  His higher education revisions  suggest little beyond his continuing re...

USA University - Iowa Republicans Threaten the Living Conditions of Graduate Student Workers

As you may recall, a bill to eliminate tenure was recently introduced into the Iowa State Senate . After a good deal of pushback  it appears...

USA University - What Berkeley's Problem is Not

As the Berkeley and Davis campuses seek new chancellors, they'll be looking for people who can deal with endless public university budge...

USA University - North Carolina Republicans Take Aim at State's Historically Black and Native American Colleges (UPDATED 6/7/16)

Although overshadowed by North Carolina's recent HB2 (forbidding transgender individuals from using the bathroom of their choice), the ...

USA University - An Open Letter to Chancellor Timothy White

Following Chancellor White's February 29th visit to CSU East Bay, Hank Reichman, Emeritus Professor at CSUEB and First Vice President of...

USA University - President Napolitano Endorses ROTF: Fails to Respond to Senate and Union Analyses (UPDATED)

President's Proposal March 11, 2016 MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY Dear Colleagues: I am writing to outline the propo...

USA University - UC Berkeley Chancellor Says New Normal Is Here to Stay, Will Restructure Campus

The UC Berkeley community received this email this morning. You can find coverage at Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education...

USA University - Top Trends for 2016 Higher Ed: Earth-Two Edition

Since Flash  Comics writers discovered the existence of Earth-Two in 1961, readers have been tracking unexpected divergences between the pai...

USA University - Can Faculty Deal with Policy Drift? A List of Options

At his blog mainly macro , the economist Simon Wren-Lewis comments on how the Labour party members who like Jeremy Corbyn  (at left) for hi...