Thursday, August 22, 2019

Alaska Still Hasn’t Saved Its Universities - Adam Harris, the Atlantic

Standing before a room full of reporters on Tuesday, Governor Mike Dunleavy of Alaska let go of the podium he’d been gripping, spreading his hands wide as he announced the agreement he had reached with the state’s university system. He said the two sides of the negotiation had started “a little bit apart,” but they had worked toward the middle. The middle they’d arrived at was a $70 million budget cut to the university system spread over the next three years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/08/alaskas-higher-education-system-still-trouble/596191/