Cui Bono: Higher Education Cuts & Consequences

Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral… Source: Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful — Medium

Facing what will be a decade of budget cuts, Kentucky’s community college system has cut more than 500 positions. Source: KCTCS cuts 500 faculty, staff positions It appears that our Commonwealth (and Goobernator Beavis by proxy) has decided that some people should not get a post-secondary degree. They can find other careers along with all
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This article does some weird false “balancing” in light of what amounts to a report that performance funding is a trojan horse to grab the reins of university power. The Century Foundation says the performance-based funding model is reinforcing disparities within public higher education and is doing little to move the needle on completion. Source:
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An absolutely scalding indictment of the G.O.P.  A consummation devoutly to be wished and sadly to be watched. Read. Read. Read. Donald Trump crushed 16 GOP opponents in one of the most appalling, vicious campaigns in history. His next victim? The entire Republican Party Source: R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party

The dark side of the force…this is why public funding for public goods becomes private funding for private goods. All hail the Brothers Koch. Five million dollars has been earmarked for conservative institutes at Arizona’s public universities. Source: $5 Million Is Going To Koch-Backed Think Tanks In Arizona Universities. Professors Are Angry. | ThinkProgress

Governor Vetoes Need-Based Scholarships for Thousands of Students – KY Policy Governor Bevin vetoed $40.3 million in funding for need-based college scholarships contained in House Bill 10, meaning denied aid for nearly 22,000 low-income students that had been awarded by the General Assembly. This is at the same time the budget cuts funding for higher
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Here’s the potential double whammy for this year’s graduating classes at high school and university levels: if you go to work, you and roughly a quarter of all under-25 year olds will likely be “underemployed” and an unlucky 13% of you will be “unemployed”. If you go to college you will suffer from crippling tuition
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An uninspiring mess. Austerity for its own sake. Proof that tea party governance is only for those who have and the devil take the hindmost. The performance funding for higher education is a Trojan Horse. It starts at 5% and then where. More importantly, what idiot flaming hoops will be required from the Bell Maker
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House and Senate negotiators abruptly stopped their work on a budget at 11:30 p.m. Sunday without any plans to meet again. “Honestly, we’re at a complete impasse,” Senate budget chairman Chris McDaniel, R-Latonia, said early Monday. McDaniel also said the full legislature would meet Tuesday for the final day of this year’s General Assembly. Source:
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  This article in The Conversation explores the unintended consequences of performance-based funding in higher education.  What it discovers after 39 states have implemented in whole or part is this–not much good or bad happens. Makes one wonder what the hidden agenda is behind this?  Is this just another way to bring the university political power base
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