If Bill Gates Jr. hadn’t dropped out of Harvard, he might not be the richest person in the world, but he might have a better understanding of higher education. Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist in the Seattle Times recently quoted Mr. Gates as saying that, “Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll…

After a misspent summer of slumming with politics and task forces, the UFWS Blog is back. Not much changed while we were gone. Just as classes began last week, Washington’s state universities took another 6.3% cut to their state appropriations. For those keeping score at home, that brings the average cut to state appropriations for…

  Here at the blog, we still remember that ad in the back of 1970s issues of Rolling Stone (when it was still on newsprint and still about music) that invited readers to send five dollars to the Universal Life Church and become an ordained minister, fully empowered to perform weddings, funerals, etc. So we…