Changing Universities

--> There are two dominant views concerning the value of a college degree currently circulating in American culture.  One view is ...

In my book Why Public Higher Education Should be Free , I argue that universities and colleges can only reduce costs and improve quality if...

--> President Obama has announced a new plan  for restructuring higher ed, which represents a collection of some of the worst ...

My book Why Public Higher Education Should be Free is now available, and its central claims address many of the issues brought up at...

In one of the most dramatic and devastating developments in higher education this year, San Francisco City College has been warned that ...

Several recent moves of privatization in the UC system should push us to ask what is behind this movement and what is wrong with it....