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Walking Backwards, a few years later
No, the first words of the title are not the name of a failed indie band (though a mockumentary about it would be fabulous). I am on annual leave for most of this week, escorting my younger child to various colleges in a region of the country colder than Florida. Campus tourguides still walk backwards several years […]
Penn State is not University of Central Florida, and other tuition notes
The comments on my messy neoliberalism post are focusing on Kevin Carey’s testimony at the affordability hearing this week. Since Carey is usually much more careful in distinguishing between well-endowed private colleges and universities, tuition-driven privates, flagship publics, regional publics, and community colleges, the following passage astonished me: There is no doubt that colleges have […]
The lighter blogging pace will continue next week
I am not an every-day-a-post blogger, so the fact that I am headed out this week on a trip visiting colleges with Younger Offspring will not otherwise be noticed, except that I will be taking notes on the Art of Visiting, which some readers may remember from a few years hence with Older Offspring (who […]
An historian’s messy attempt to understand neoliberalism
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings. ((Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter, in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)) “… And homo economicus, and sanctions that […]
What will be the last sordid act for Richard McCormick?
As a researcher, Richard McCormick has been a political historian. As president of Rutgers University for the past decade, he’s been a jockstrap-sniffing disaster, whose funneling of money from academics to athletics has been roughly the same order of magnitude as declines in state support: FY 2010 athletic subsidies of $27 million against the $29 million […]