POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Here are some pictures I took at today’s NO to the #GradTax walkout at the University of California at Berkeley: The march approaches Sproul Plaza: On the stage: The audience: Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, addresses the rally on behalf of the Berkeley Faculty Association: From…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP, along with other higher education groups, strongly opposes proposed tax legislation that would hurt higher education. The tax bill passed by the House of Representatives threatens to devastate graduate education by reclassifying tuition waivers as taxable income–a move that, if it becomes law, would result in an untenable financial…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP and a large coalition of other higher education groups have issued an open letter calling on legislators to protect the graduate student tuition waiver and the students it benefits. The AAUP previously called on its members and those who support higher education to “Vote No on the Tax Bill”…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is an addendum to my recent post on the increasing concentration of wealth in the United States. Writing for Business Insider, Tanza Loudenback reports: There are 1,542 billionaires in the world, according to a new report by UBS. More than 560 billionaires live in the US—the most of any country—and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Here are two charts on the widening income inequality in the U.S. The first chart shows that the top .1% now own as much as the bottom 90% of Americans. The second chart shows that, in terms of income inequality, the U.S. is an outlier among developed nations. The following list…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for University Business magazine, Jodi Helmer addresses the question “Is early college working?” She provides the following broad statistics: In 2002, 1.2 million students were earning college credits while still in high school. A decade later, the number of those participating in dual enrollment courses had almost doubled,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Opponent Testimony for H.B. 66 Submitted By Dr. Amy Thompson, Professor of Public Health Chairman Duffy, Vice Chairman Antani, Ranking Member Sweeney, Members of the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee, my name is Dr. Amy Thompson. For identification purposes, I am a tenured Professor of Public Health and the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Testimony of Stephen Mockabee, Ph.D. Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee Representative Mike Duffey, Chair October 11, 2017 Chairman Duffey, Ranking Member Sweeney, and members of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee: My name is Steve Mockabee, and I am…
BY HANK REICHMAN In January a wide variety of academic and labor organizations, including the California conference of the AAUP and the California Faculty Association (CFA), released a report, “The $48 fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan for Higher Education,” which demonstrated that tuition could be eliminated at the University of California (UC) and the California…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following open letter first appeared on Dreamer Hugo Diaz’s Facebook page. It has subsequently been disseminated by several national and international news sources. After our month of hurricanes, some of the details especially resonate. More broadly, Hugo Diaz presents a very personalized and authentic account of his experience that both…