Wall Street Journal interview with Yale endowment guru
I was on the phone earlier this week with Sandy Robertson, a founding partner of the international private equity firm Francisco Partners and a member of the University of Michigan’s investment...
View ArticleOnce again, education funding is left on the Washington, D.C. chopping block
Education, we’re told, is the best investment you can make. As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in the fall of 2007, ”Education—lifelong education for everyone—from toddlers to workers well...
View ArticleJoel Kovel, author of ‘Overcoming Zionism,’ loses teaching position at Bard...
Joel Kovel, an outspoken critic of the state of Israel and the author of Overcoming Zionism, has lost his job at Bard College, Inside Higher Ed reported today. An evaluation of Kovel released by a Bard...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of an Endowment
This week, myself and a colleague at The Michigan Daily, staff reporter Kyle Swanson, have been publishing an extensive series on the University of Michigan’s complex, influential, multi-billion-dollar...
View ArticleAmerican dream deferred: The educational crisis sweeping across the U.S.
I’ve got a new piece published at TomDispatch.com today about the crisis of college affordability sweeping throughout higher education, from community colleges to elite, four-year public and private...
View ArticleIs administrative bloat driving up college costs?
Several weeks ago, I wrote a story titled “Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education is Dividing Our Country” for Tomdispatch.com that the cost of higher education has increased more than five times...
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