Yesterday saw the kickoff of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, a joint project of many, many groups in higher education, spearheaded by the California Faculty Association and Lillian Taiz. (See coverage at the Chronicle and InsideHigherEd.com.) The campaign has a couple of broad goals: guaranteeing access to affordable, quality higher education, and including the voices of faculty, students, and other stakeholders in budgetary discussions about higher education.

Faced with a systematic assault on public funding for higher education, the Campaign notes that those cuts fall most directly on low-income and first-time college attendees, and that the past several decades worth of cuts (see Aaron Bady on this) are creating a system that sets aside a real education for those privileged few able to afford it (and the unpaid internships and courses/semesters abroad and…

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