Tag Archives: higher education

Washtenaw Community College’s plan to outsource IT services

By Mark | June 10, 2019

Over the past week or so, I’ve had several discussions with people at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) about declining enrollment and what it might mean for the future of the institution. As for why fewer people are enrolling, there are numerous contributing factors; the population of college-aged people is dropping, the cost of tuition has […]

Posted in Education, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged dismantling of public education, Eastern Michigan University, Ellucian, EMU, IT, mascots, millage, MLive, outsourcing, privatization, Rose Bellanca, the corporatization of higher education, Washtenaw Community College, WCC | 42 Comments

Trump threatens to withhold research funding from universities that aren’t more welcoming to those who disregard facts and refute science

By Mark | March 3, 2019

Last night, after watching highlights from Donald Trump’s disturbing performance at CPAC, I posted the following to Twitter. And, as a few people have asked me what I meant by it, I thought that I’d post an explanation here. McCarthyism started this way, with threats against institutions of higher education designed to force out liberal […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1954, Alan Haber, Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, CPAC, Donald Trump, executive actions, First Amendment, Free Speech, hate speech, Herman Webster Mudgett, History, House Unamerican Activities Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Madona, Mark Nickerson, McCarthyism, Pete Larson, red scare, research, SDS, Stephen Tonsor, Students for Democratic Society, Theodore Kaczynski, Unabomber, University of Michigan, university research, whore | 268 Comments

Did Betsy DeVos roll back Title IX regulations dealing with the reporting of sexual assaults on campus at the request of MSU?

By Mark | February 12, 2018

The above photo of Trump administration Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos chatting with former Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon was taken on September 20, 2017. Two days later, on the 22nd, DeVos would announce that the Department of Education would be rolling back Title IX regulations dealing with the reporting of sexual assaults […]

Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, child abuse, Department of Education, FOIA, Larry Nassar, Lou Anna Simon, Michigan State University, MSU, Rachael Denhollander, sexism, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, sexual predator, Title IX | 18 Comments

Five simple things you can do to stop Trump’s Tax Scam

By Mark | November 28, 2017

If you read this site, you know the Republican tax bill is shortsighted, cruel and stupid. You know that, even though it was sold to us as a middle class tax cut, the truth is, tax cuts for the middle class are small and temporary, while the tax cuts for billionaires and corporations are large […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, America Cares Act, American aristocracy, Arizona, Bob Corker, Donald Trump, Doug Jones, estate tax, Jeff Flake, John McCain, national debt, redistribution of wealth, Resistbot, Roy Moore, scientific research, Senate, Senate Budget Committee, Steve Daines, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, withholding consent | 22 Comments

The hijacking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By Mark | November 27, 2017

There’s so much I want to talk about right now… the failed attempt on the part of Project Veritas to trick the Washington Post into running a fake story about Roy Moore’s fondness for child rape; the fact that our President couldn’t help but make a racist joke today while honoring Navajo ‘code talkers’ for […]