Year 2009

Here is a NYT article about the difficulties facing doctoral students, especially in the humanities.

SUNY is seeing increased interest from students who are looking for more affordable education. But the SUNY system faces budget cuts, like the UC system. The President of a SUNY campus says: “Eighty-four percent of our budget is people, so…

A recent case at the University of Wisconsin raises serious legal issues about our rights of free speech as faculty members and the meaning of shared governance. It is worth reading the excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Education to…

For three days running now, the state legislature has been trying to pass the latest version of the state budget, without success. The legislature has adjourned for the night. DFA chair Ian Kennedy asked me to investigate UC’s plans to…

While things are bad in California, they are worse elsewhere. From the AAUP we hear the following news about “The Death of Public Higher Education” in Tennessee A funeral for public higher education was held Monday in Tennessee after the…

by Ian Kennedy Our current difficulties find their parallel, almost eerily so, in an earlier time: the Depression years of the 1930’s. A history of UC from 1868 to 1968 by Verne Stadtman reveals some very interesting facts that may…