Dollars and Sense

Information on budgets, funding, revenue strategies, etc.

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Claire Potter Criticizes Obama's Plans for Higher Education "We educators are sick and tired of being lectured by politicians, who have never taught a student in their lives, about how the crisis in higher education is all our fault because we aren’t efficient enough and don’t work hard enough. We are also a little sick of being told that our students can’t get jobs because we didn’t educate them correctly, or because we fill them with radical thoughts — not because the banks and the government took the economy down in their love affair with the free market, or have adopted policies to privatize and expand greedy for-profit education ventures." For her detailed rebuttal to Obama, check out her blog post at: her site on the Chronicle's page.
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Budget Cuts and Public Research Universities

The National Science Foundation releases a new report detailing the decline in funding of public research universities. Read the coverage in this article from Inside Higher Education. Or look at the follow-up article on cuts to state spending on higher education.