Obama, Yudof, and the Future of Higher Ed

At the University of Michigan, President Obama made an important speech about his new push to control tuition increases and student debt at...

UCR Students Promote a Bad Tuition Plan as Police Beat Protesters

The UC Regents meeting had a little of everything this week: UCR students came up with a new way to fund the university , a long list of new...

Biden and Romney Talk Higher Ed

National politicians continue to speak about higher education from a perspective of almost total ignorance. In fact, Mitt Romney has actual...

The University as Investment Bank and Questions about State Funding

In response to my last blog entry on President Yudof and the current financing of the UC system, and anonymous commenter wrote the following...

My Dialogue with President Yudof

On Dec. 2, 2011, UC President Mark Yudof gave a speech to the California Chamber of Commerce entitled, “A Baker’s Dozen Myths about Higher ...