Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Five Years after the Financial Meltdown: The State of the US Economy and College Grads

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The LA Times has provided a good detailed analysis of where we stand five years after the fiscal meltdown of 2008. The o...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Free Higher Ed in the News: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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Almost every week , there is a new plan to make higher education free.  The latest two proposals come from Starbucks and a new group of fo...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

K-12 Tenure Declared Unconstitutional in California: Could Higher Ed be Next?

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A Los Angeles judge ruled  against the current system of granting tenure to K-12 teachers because he found that low-inco...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Piketty and the Austerity of Imagination

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Thomas Piketty’s recent book Capital in the Twenty First Century has gotten rave reviews and has been proclaimed by many liberal and progr...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

UCSB, Tragedy, and College Culture

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I have had a hard time writing on this blog because I do not want to strike the wrong tone or appear insensitive.  The re...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

UC Bait and Switch Part Two

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In my last post, I discussed how UC was fulfilling its obligation to accept every eligible Californian student by admitting ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

The UC Admissions Bait and Switch

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The UC has published its 2014 admissions’ statistics , and while the system is still required to admit all qualified student...
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