The problem in higher education finance is not relatively insignificant changes in appropriations, but spiraling increases in operating costs. The difference between real appropriations and real operating costs has more than doubled from about $5,400 in 1970-71 to nearly $11,700 in 2007-08. Not surprisingly, higher tuition has filled this bulging gap.
What Happened to UT’s Outside Agitators?
Shortly after it was announced that 79 people had been arrested during the anti-Israel protests at the University of Texas at Austin in April, university officials and police reported that 45 of those arrested had no affiliation with UT. Subsequent arrests of campus protesters in Austin and around the country had similar metrics—a substantial percentage...