What Jerry Brown is Really Thinking

The LA Times Blog has a long unedited, monologue by Governor Jerry Brown that gives a great deal of insight into this complicated figure. ...

Regents Retreat

One of the most remarkable aspects of the recent regents’ discussion of the future of the university was the lack of discussion of the quali...

Pension Politics

It looks like the legislature and the governor are close to a deal on pensions. While they have decided to exclude the University of Califo...

The state of UC

The stakes have gone up for Prop 30, the governor's tax initiative, which will cost the UC $375 million in state funding if it does not ...

Student Loan Debt Collectors

According to a report from the National Consumer Law Center, “The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) relies on an increasing num...

How Higher Ed Tax Breaks Serve as Welfare for the Wealthy

As I wrote in a previous blog entry , we may be able to make all public higher ed free, if we just use all current available resources in a ...

UC, the State, and the Post-Stimulus Blues

In his End this Depression Now! , Paul Krugman argues that the best way to get the U.S. economy out of its current slump is for the federal ...