Here are some statistics from Erik Sherman’s April 2015 article for Fortune “College Basketball Coaches and Their Slam Dunk Salaries” [http://fortune.com/2015/03/21/college-basketball-coaches-and-their-slam-dunk-salaries/]. (Billy Donovan has since moved on from the University of Florida to the NBA.) Duke University Coach: Mike Krzyzewski Total pay: $9,682,032 Maximum bonus: N/A University president pay: Richard H. Brodhead, $1.1 million Basketball…
BY HANK REICHMAN On February 29, California State University (CSU) Chancellor Tim White visited the CSU East Bay campus and addressed a public meeting of faculty, staff and students. White was greeted by some 40 student and faculty demonstrators who later joined others in the audience. As readers of this blog know, the CSU faculty…
BY HANK REICHMAN “CUNY is for the People” read some of the signs at a highly-charged rally outside New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s midtown office in New York City yesterday. Organized by a new and broad coalition, CUNY Rising Alliance, the rally kicked off a community-based campaign to demand increased public investment in the City…
Today, the Campus Faculty Association at the University of Illinois (which is affiliated with the AFT and the AAUP) is holding a protest at 11am to spotlight the devastating impact of the state budget crisis on higher education across Illinois. Here is the event announcement: On March 11, students, staff, and faculty from public colleges…
The following essay by University of California at Santa Barbara English professor Christopher Newfield appeared originally on the Remaking the University blog and is republished with permission. Although the three institutions discussed are from the San Francisco Bay Area, the issues addressed are ones we faculty members are confronting everywhere. The New Normal Isn’t Normal–It…
BY JONATHAN REES Last week, I went to a meeting with our system’s Chancellor, Tony Frank, who is also the President of the Colorado State System’s flagship campus, CSU-Fort Collins. I was sitting in on a Faculty Senate meeting with no planned agenda except to ask Frank questions. Nonetheless, almost every single question was something…
BY PETER N. KIRSTEIN Right-wing ideologue, Governor Bruce Rauner, has indeed demonstrated his disdain for the vulnerable and marginalised working class of Illinois. A bright, luminous red-state reactionary in blue-state, pro-union, pro-labour Illinois, he has vetoed a bill that would have given $721,000,000 to help fund higher education for income-challenged students. The Illinois General Assembly, which marked…
BY MARTIN KICH Governor Bruce Rauner is doing Scott Walker one better and turning Illinois into Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana without even pausing along the way to replicate what Walker has done in Wisconsin. What is occurring in all of these states is also occurring in Kansas, in Maine, and in a slew of states in…
BY HANK REICHMAN The student videojournalist who was threatened by professor Melissa Click, leading to a municipal assault charge, said Friday that he wants state lawmakers to stop using the incident to justify budget cuts for the University of Missouri (UM), according to a report in the Columbia Tribune. Mark Schierbecker’s video of Click —…
Last week I posted an item on California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed 2016-17 state budget, which falls short on higher education funding. In that post I relied heavily on the findings of the nonpartisan California Budget and Policy Center‘s “First Look” at the proposed budget. Now the Center has published another comment on the proposal,…