The rot in higher education is spreading, thanks to solidarity among former sisters in the Obama Cabinet, both of whom have landed cushy, high-paying jobs as university presidents. Seth Grossman used to be the chief of staff for Janet Napolitano, staying with her when she moved from secretary of homeland security to president of the University of California system.  In that position, he became a fall guy after getting fired for corrupting a state audit of the various campuses of that sprawling public university.  I have written about that corruption several times and will here cite the explanation offered two days ago by Dan Walter, the Sacramento Bee columnist, widely regarded as the premier journalist covering California state government. Let's say you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company that's under scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting irregularities. And let's say that when the SEC's investigators sought...(Read Full Post)