When budgets are tight, our values matter more - Stacey Andersen, the Gazette

I thought about these values as I read University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld’s recent response to the thousands of us who have been calling on UI to keep funding the UI Labor Center, an institution that has educated thousands of working Iowans across the 99 counties each year since 1951. He says not only is he not going to listen, but tells us our speaking up “has got to stop.” In his view, after 67 years of being a publicly funded Iowa institution, the Labor Center is somehow supposed to find corporate donors in order to continue; if not, the UI will close its doors to Iowa workers. https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnist/when-budgets-are-tight-our-values-matter-more-20181223