http://writinginthewild.com "nothing natural about it!" Fri, 18 May 2012 12:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://writinginthewild.com/2012/04/09/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/ http://writinginthewild.com/2012/04/09/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:27:34 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5532 The 99% Spring]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2012/04/09/richard-wilkinson-how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/feed/ 0 http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/29/the-buck-doesnt-stop-here/ http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/29/the-buck-doesnt-stop-here/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:33:12 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5376 Internet Center for Corruption Research this morning (on NPR, I think) and I am starting to think that corruption really should be some sort of subcategory in the academic study of contemporary U.S. universities. On Monday, I listed recent examples from Illinois, but today I find even more stories from elsewhere; these involve institutionalized form of corruption but perhaps individual corruption as well. Administrators at Harvard managed to report both a budget shortfall requiring program and a million or so in bonuses for the "two Cadillacs" crowd. ("Bonuses and Furloughs").  Other reports note the ongoing move to shift the cost of college to the individual ("Colleges Increasingly Dependent on Tuition, U.S. Study Shows") and,...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2012/02/29/the-buck-doesnt-stop-here/feed/ 0