Michelle Chen reports on how Tennessee has received kudos for offering a free community college program that has influenced Obama's proposals. But how is this being funded? By cutting benefits for the workers at Tennessee universities. The new budget would impose major “reforms” to the...
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A disturbing proposal out of Tennessee. In response to continued decreases in state funding of higher education, the Board of Trustees has announced cost cutting and revenue raising plans that.
Art Pope's rule as King of North Carolina continues with the closing of centers on North Carolina campuses that deal with social and ecological issues: The full UNC Board of.
While I appreciate Duke University's initial agreement to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer once a week, its quickly succumbing to the racist blatherings of Franklin Graham and the anti-Islam fanatics that dominate the American right show both that the acceptance of Islam anywhere in...
Louisiana is a really well-run state: Public college and university campuses in Louisiana could close if the state ends up cutting $300 million or more out of its higher education.
I get that conservatives hate the idea of free higher education for all. What an unspeakable horror, that the poor would have equal access as the rich. What I think.
As I discussed awhile ago, the teaching assistants at my alma mater, the University of Oregon, were discussing going on strike over the university's refusal to provide them paid sick leave. In response, the university threw academic integrity out the window and threatened to allow...
Graduate students at the University of Oregon are threatening to strike over the university not giving their demand of paid family leave. You can read the details of the bargaining.
It's hardly surprising once you think about it, but you probably don't think about it, so it's worth noting the role slavery had in building so many of our older.
Why have we seen a recent crackdown on academic freedom and freedom of speech against academics, whether Stephen Salaita or myself? The answer is that administrators are scared of controversy. It reminds me of World War I, when U.S. entry and the following Red Scare...
I don't often comment on specific academic jobs but this really stuck in my craw. At Arizona State University: The School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona.
New York University expresses its deep apologies for the workers exploited in building their new Abu Dhabi campus. Of course, they are probably not sorry enough to do anything about.