McKenzie Wark offers up some thoughts on how Occupy Wall Street is offering an allegory to counter an abstraction. And how that is a good thing. (H/t to Casey Blake)
The AFT and Bob Samuels offer an update on Occupy LA. And here is another view.
And there is emerging information about plans for college occupations.
Former Chancellors call for new funding model for UC. (h/t to Catherine Cole)
Working without the typical UC senior management blind spot, Stanton Glantz and Eric Hays update their "restoration" report to show that moving UC into a future defined as what the state had collectively already built in 2000 (including low tuition) would now, after the Brown Cuts, cost $49 / year instead of $32 (at the median). People who don't like the median (half of all taxpayers), should note that the restoration cost to taxpayers who make $400-499,000 (the top 5%) about $4400.
SDSU establishes second LGBT major in the country.
Bernanke is worried. Blames everyone else. Maybe it would help if he read this.
Yale's endowment grew 22% last year.
But while some wealth grew poverty grew too.
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