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Little Hoover Commission Hearing on Higher Education 2/26/2013

LITTLE HOOVER COMMI S S ION

Public Hearing on Higher Education, February 26, Long Beach Community College


UCI Prof Stops Teaching Online Course in Dispute

This article was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on February 19, 2013.

Online Education: Another Phony "Revolution" by Richard Wolff January 30, 2013

Thomas Friedman's latest column touting online education "is another exercise in (1) finding a potential positive dimension of capital's latest profit-driven move, (2) hyping it and (3) ignoring its contradictions, especially those that are negative."

Revolution Hits the Universities by Thomas Friedman January 26, 2013

LORD knows there’s a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education. Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of poverty — by providing them an affordable education to get a job or improve in the job they have.

UC-AFT Leader, John Rundin, Connects with Jerry Brown

jerryBrownAndJohnRunidn.jpgUC-AFT Local 2023 President, John Rundin, met with Governor Brown last week to discuss the need for better accounting of the cost of educating different types of students within UC and for greater transparency in the UC budget. Rundin and Brown are seen exchanging phone numbers in the photo to the right.