USA University - Humanities Graduate Education After Avital Ronell

I yearn to return to my beloved topic of truth and fantasy in university budgeting.  But last week it was impossible to avoid the Ronell aff...

USA University - Open Letter to UC President Janet Napolitano on Fundraising

Dear President Napolitano, You have now been the president of the University of California for nearly five years. You are one of a handful o...

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 - The Great Mistake on Research Costs

I'm going to use a lull in my travel for  The Great Mistake  to start clearing my post backlog, starting with a response to the most rec...

USA University - Does Nonresident Tuition Show that Privatization Works?

The most visible item on this week�s University of California Regents agenda has the Board considering a cap on the enrollment of non reside...

USA University - Reclaim True Public Higher Education in California

Today  Reclaim California Higher Education  released its highly anticipated proposal to save the California Master Plan and with it affordab...

USA University - Biting the Populist Bullet

The Great Mistake is out! And I have a related piece in today's Inside Higher Ed about the choice facing the public university after th...