More Flexibility to Raise Tuition?
Central to debates over the New Badger Partnership is the question of whether additional flexibilities that make it possible to raise tuition are desirable. Evidence can and must be used to make these...
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Things That Make Me Go Hmm….(Part 2)
Hot off the presses, recent news that has me scratching my head, or otherwise up in arms… (1) Raising tuition in expensive cities in the midst of an economic crisis. Yep, that’s what CUNY thinks is...
View ArticleGuest Post: UCR Students Promote a Bad Tuition Plan as Police Beat Protesters
The following is a guest post by Bob Samuels, President of the University Council – AFT and a lecturer at UCLA. It is cross-posted from his blog, where you should go to find all of the original...
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Wisconsin Needs to Educate, Not Incarcerate
Yet another policy brief highlights what realists know: Wisconsin policymakers are presiding over poor policy decisions that threaten to undermine taxpayers’ decades-long investment in the state’s...
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Choices, Choices, Choices
As expected, the UW Regents moved forward Friday, approving the proposal from the UW-Madison Administration to raise the cap on out-of-state enrollment even though it hadn’t been vetted through proper...
View ArticleCautions for Chancellor Blank
It seems UW-Madison’s system of shared governance may be a new act for Chancellor Rebecca Blank to learn. An interview conducted with journalists today shows her on the record weighing in on both...
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My Testimony to the U.S. Senate
This morning, I testified before the United State’s Senate HELP committee on the topic of college affordability. My written testimony can be found here. The text of my oral testimony follows, and I...
View ArticleIt’s Good to Be an Education Optimist
Once in awhile people ask me how I can continue to call myself an education optimist when the “new normal” is so grim. They ask, “why do you continue tilting at windmills instead of being pragmatic...
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The Problem that is Provost Paul DeLuca
Let me tell you, it’s an incredible experience to chair a university committee for multiple years, work very hard to serve at the request of your university, produce a thoughtful report with that...
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Putting the UW System Tuition Freeze in Context
Today’s Journal Sentinel has an excellent chart illustrating how the challenge of paying for college in Wisconsin has changed over time The only problem is that neither the chart or the accompanying...
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