You could look it up: lower state funding for higher ed, higher costs for poor students
Don’t just take my word for it. Two new online calculators show a) how state support of higher education as a proportion of universities’ budgets has plummeted, and b) how recent policies at the federal, state, and institutional level have combined to increase poor students’ costs in relative and even absolute terms compared to rich […]
Kasich to faculty: Be Nigel Tufnel
Imagine a governor proposing that all firefighters, or all police, or all [insert favorite public employment here] work 10% more, for no additional compensation. Most people, I hope, would think such unilateral increase of work for no pay un-American, a breaking of a contract between employers and employees. But yesterday, John Kasich our darling governor […]
Intended “unintended” consequences: college costs up for poor, down for rich
Alan Pyke comments via ThinkProgress on a Hechinger report by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hatcher, titled “Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show.” The take-away: over the past several years, the move at college and universities to attract higher-scoring students (more likely to be higher income) through merit scholarships, […]
Five years on, tea party part of the visual landscape
The picture on the left accompanied an article in today’s New York Times about young Republicans at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The article makes a point of profiling a young Republican with a green-and-orange mohawk. But to me, what’s more interesting is that it does not comment at all on the man on the right, […]
More than neglect: an era of partisan attack on higher ed
A week later, some folks are still stunned by the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s “An Era of Neglect,” which offers a long-term view of states’ retreat from funding higher education. Two thoughts come to mind. The first is that anyone who really was shocked, or even surprised, probably hasn’t been paying attention much. But what’s […]