BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL On September 13, a House subcommittee holds a hearing that, according to Janet Lorin in Bloomberg , “is set to look at how colleges, through their tax exempt endowments, are trying to reduce tuition.” The subcommittee hearing features testimony from policy experts and college officials. It’s an interesting time to examine college endowments. As Ms.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following statistics are from a ProPublica report, “Median Income Is Down, But Public College Tuition Is Way Up,” prepared by Fan Fei: The report, which includes a feature that allows you to identify the tuition increase at any public university or college in the country, is available at:…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Michigan League for Public Policy has issued a report on the funding of public higher education in the state. The full report is available here: http://www.mlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Back-to-school_2016.pdf. Writing for Michigan Live, Brian McVicar provides this summary of the report’s most salient findings: “Michigan has failed to adequately invest in higher…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This post originally appeared on the blog Talking Union [https://talkingunion.wordpress.com/]. Paul Garver, the editor of that blog, on which some of my labor-related posts to this blog have been re-posted, has asked that I disseminate it as widely as possible. As the note at the bottom makes clear, it had already…
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS NOTE: When you send your request to your legislature, include links to larger documents (see below). By including hypertext links, later readers of the request (other lawmakers, Facebook readers, e-mail recipients, coalition members, reporters and blog readers) can then quickly verify your facts (if they are inclined to do so) without inclusion…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for University Business, Ray Bendici provides an “Inside Look [at] College Stadiums.” The implications of the focal statistic in the second paragraph are worth considering. And the name of the expert quoted throughout the article seems one of those ironic pairings of name and occupation: “Colleges now enhance game-day experiences…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN “We need a chancellor who will not be engaged in the doublespeak of proclaiming UC Berkeley’s preeminence as a public university while simultaneously insisting on marketizing every aspect of its existence. We need a chancellor who does not believe that the negative impact on educational access and the quality of our…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This post is an edited synthesis of two communications sent to the bargaining unit faculty members (BUFMs) at Wright State University about what we know about the reductions to the budgets of the administrative and the academic units at the university. The details will probably be of little interest to faculty…
BY MARTIN KICH University Business has published an article that initially caught my eye because of its title–“A Pillar of the American Dream: Higher Education as a Public Good.” But what really caught my eye was the list of co-authors: Lloyd A. Jacobs is president emeritus and professor at the University of Toledo; Janine E.…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is a partial transcript of Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis’ remarks at a news conference yesterday in response to the new Chicago Public Schools budget: I am Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union. I am joined by fellow officers, Vice President Jesse Sharkey and Financial Secretary…