Tag Archives: higher education

Vindictive Michigan Republicans seek retribution against U-M and Wayne State for renegotiating union contracts prior to the March 28 roll-out of right-to-work legislation

By Mark | March 19, 2013

A bill passed this morning by the House Higher Education Subcommittee, in a 4-3 vote along party lines, would cut an additional $41 million in state funding from the University of Michigan, and $27.5 million in funding from Wayne State University. According to a report in today’s Detroit Free Press, this is being done to [...]

Posted in Education, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Pscholka, anti-science, domestic partner benefits, Higher Education Subcommittee, lame duck, Michigan House of Representatives, Randy Richardville, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, those anti-science Republicans, union busting, unions, University of Michigan, Wayne State University | 20 Comments

Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the anti-tax rhetoric of Lansing Republicans

By Mark | February 19, 2013

Reading an article in the Detroit Free Press this evening about how taxes are going up precipitously on working class Michiganders, I’m reminded of something that I wrote about a year ago for this site. Here’s how my post began. Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax [...]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Observations, Politics | Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ed Asner California Association of Teachers, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, income disparity, income tax, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, progressive taxation, public education, revolution, Rick Snyder, tax credits, tax policy, tax the rich, trickle down economics, we need a revolution | 20 Comments

Video proves what I’d always suspected… I could have been having a much better time as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan

By Mark | September 20, 2012

Inspired, I’m assuming, by the success of Girls Gone Wild, a pair of undergraduate filmmakers from the east coast have been traveling the country, documenting the debauchery of American undergraduates. And, unfortunately for the University for Michigan, they’ve already stopped in Ann Arbor twice. Here’s their most recent footage. This, I think it’s safe to [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arya Toufanian, Back Room Pizza, binge drinking, debauchery, drinking, food service, Girls Gone Wild, I’m Shmacked, Jeffrie Ray, Jersey Shorification, pot, The Brown Jug, University of Michigan | 33 Comments

Apparently billionaire alumni don’t like it when sociologists who specialize in “class dynamics and the role of debt in society” become university presidents… (U-M’s former Provost Theresa Sullivan forced to resign as President of UVA)

By Mark | June 18, 2012

About two years ago, the University of Michigan lost its Provost, Theresa Sullivan, to the University of Virginia. People that I know at the University weren’t happy to see her leave, as she was extremely popular among faculty, but everyone seemed to be happy for her, as she was leaving to become the first female [...]

Posted in Education, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Darden School of Business, Goldman Sacs, hedge funds, Helen Dragas, Peter Kiernan, Siva Vaidhyanathan, strategic dynamism, the corporatization of higher education, Theresa Sullivan, University of Michigan, University of Virginia | 22 Comments

How do you convey to people the seriousness of what’s happening to Michigan’s working class?

By Mark | April 23, 2012

Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax party, when they keep demonstrating that they clearly aren’t? Sure, they’re all for the cutting of business taxes, inheritance taxes, and other taxes that would threaten to decrease the wealth of their party’s high-net-worth donors, but, invariably, those shifts in [...]