USA University - Corporate Universities are Shocked to Learn They have Graduate Student Employees

As you may know, a 3-1 majority of the National Labor Relations Board ruled  that Columbia University's Teaching Assistants (known at Co...

USA University - The New Normal isn't Normal--It Erodes Democracy

We've been told that public colleges and universities have entered a New Normal. It's supposed to be stable and sustainable. It give...

USA University - Where I Implant UC, There Shall Inequality Be

I realize there are many other factors, but the geography of the state inequality boom does not put the University of California system on t...

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...

USA University - Academic Freedom Among the Very Serious People

I'm tired of band-aids on university policy problems that never heal the underlying wounds, so I asked that we faculty do some new thing...