Currently Wisconsin’s financial problems may be viewed to be as dire as California’s on a relative scale. Depending on what is included as debt, our state tax-supported debt is currently ~$1,800 to ~$9,800 per person compared to ~$1,500 to ~7,600…
There is a really interesting series of articles that has just been posted about the way the UC Regents have been handling UCRP and other investments in the era of Regents Parsky, Blum, Wachter, Lansing and Schwarzenegger. Here’s an excerpt:…
All Out to the 2nd Statewide Mobilization Conference Against Privatization of Public Education When? April 24th. Where? Los Angeles, Santee Education Complex, 1921 South Maple Avenue. The future of public education in this state – particularly for the working class…
Stanton Glantz, vice chair of the UC Council of Faculty Associations, has written an Op-Ed that was published in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. The article is online at: and is pasted below: ——————————– Median tax to restore higher education:…
An interesting article by Bob Samuels is at: A taste: “To understand how both public and private research universities have gotten themselves into this mess, one needs to understand five inter-related factors: the state de-funding of public education, the…
An interesting article in today’s New York Times about the perilous condition of public higher education. UC is used as an example in the article, but there is also information about a lot of other states, making for useful comparison.…
