Tag Archives: higher education

Michigan Democrats unveil plan to finance free college tuition by eliminating corporate income tax credits

By Mark | January 17, 2012

This just in from our friends at Think Progress: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) spent his first year in office trading in the welfare of thousands of vulnerable Michiganders in order to cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Hoping to refocus priorities in 2012, the state’s Senate Democrats have released a new plan that […]

Blogbaby episode four: Pete Larson on Graduate Student Research Assistant Unionization

By Mark | December 19, 2011

[While I’m busy scrubbing poop from diapers and other articles of clothing, several friends have been kind enough to provide content for this site, through a program we’re calling Blogbaby. Today’s contribution comes from my friend and former bandmate Pete Larson.] Mark has been on to me for several weeks to write something for his […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Education, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Schuette, Blogbaby, collective bargaining, GEO, grad students, Graduate Student Research Assistant Unionization, GSRA, Japanese porn, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, MERC, Michigan Employment Relations Commission, Pete Larson, public employee unions, Scott Walker, Sharia law, unions, University of Michigan | 14 Comments

UC Davis Chancellor escorted from her office as hundreds of students line her path, staring in deafening silence

By Mark | November 20, 2011

By now, you’ve probably seen the the footage of the UC Davis students being pepper sprayed. It’s disgusting stuff. The students are sitting down in a line, across a sidewalk, protesting recent tuition hires, and, ironically enough, episodes of police brutality elsewhere in the University of California system. They are peaceful. No one is yelling. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Celeste Langan, coughing up blood, Eastern Michigan University, Geoffrey O’Brien, Glen Greenwald, Joe Paterno, John Pike, kids today, Linda Katehi, Linda P.B. Katehi, Nathan Brown, non-violence, Penn State, pepper spray, police brutality, police state, Robert Hass, shame, solidarity, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, surveilance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, tuition protests, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of California, University of Michigan, violence vs non-violence, walk of shame | 22 Comments

Harvard students walk out of Econ class they say “perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society”

By Mark | November 3, 2011

Apparently several Harvard students enrolled in Professor Greg Mankiw’s Economics 10 class walked out yesterday. Following is their open letter to Mankiw. Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. We are deeply concerned about the way that […]

Posted in Economics | Also tagged 99%, Adam Smith, economic theory, Economics, George Bush, Greg Mankiw, Harvard, income inequality, Keynesian economics, Mitt Romney, Occupy Wall Street, student activism, the corporatization of higher education, the growing gap between rich and poor, the politics on envy, walk outs | 15 Comments

Peter Thiel questions the value of higher education in America… Does he have a point?

By Mark | May 25, 2011

Peter Thiel, one of the cofounders of PayPal, is credited in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education with saying, essentially, that higher education may be overvalued in America. Theil, who today announced the names of the 24 students who would be dropping out of college to accept $100,000 cash awards as part of his new eponymous […]