completely understand when recession hits and states start to look for ways to reduce deficits, it never ceases to amaze me that education is almost inevitably one of the first to be cut. In Nevada, where we are already near the bottom in elementary and secondary education, the University system (UNLV and UNR) have nonetheless continued, despite double digit cuts last year, managed to survive and prosper. But now the State, under the wily direction of Gov. Gibbons (blah) has dictated another $9 million in cuts at UNLV. Amongst the proposed options is to cut the most expensive departments, but if you look at the list of the 20 most expensive departments – they’re the very ones that are in demand right now. Cutting those departments would be tantamount to saying, we can be human but we don’t really need the opposable thumbs.

Read the rest of my op-ed here…