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 - 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 - On the Side of the Powerful: The Impact Agenda and Sociology in Public

Chris here: Because U.S. academia is so decentralized and stratified, few new regimes have a national scope and can be hard to see coming.  ...

USA University - Will the Legislature Continue to Support a Research University?

Understandably, most public attention on California higher ed has been focused on the meetings between President Napolitano and Governor Bro...

USA University - Universities without Austerity

Here's a quick update on my way back from Vancouver, where I attended the Modern Language Association meeting.  Jeff Williams and I had ...

USA University - Governor Brown Picks Up the Gauntlet

Governor Brown released his 2015-2016 budget proposal today. As expected he demonstrated no willingness to back off in his opposition to tu...

USA University - Some Implications of the Regents' Proposed UC Ventures

My thinking about the formation of "UC Ventures" is influenced by the fact that today I am flying from London to Berlin to film so...