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Is Privitization Inevitable or will the Huskies Save the UW?

Raymund A. Paredes, commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. told Texas Universities that legislators hear higher education as saying “give us more money and leave us alone,” “I can tell you that argument doesn’t work,” he said.

The speech is part of an article in the Chronicle on the annual conference of higher-education government-relations professionals. The consensus everywhere in the US seems to be that the only interest of the public is on increasing graduation rates. There is no concern for quality.

This seems to me to be a fairly accurate view of where we all are, with two exceptions: football and Harvard. The public, or at least the politicians, seem to be eager to support elitism in both public collegiate athletic departments and private (but largely federally funded) elite colleges.

Where does that leave the UW? According to one ranking service we are #14 in the US and #16 in the world, ranked by academic standards. It is also important to note that we rank just below the premier private schools in the US and actually above schools like Johns Hopkins, Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Brandeis, Cornell, ….

As for WORLD standings, the UW’s “16” puts us above all other world universities except Oxford and Cambridge! We do MUCH worse, however, in football.

1	Harvard University
2	University of California, Berkeley
3	Stanford University
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5	California Institute of Technology
6	Princeton University
7	Columbia University
8	University of Chicago
9	Yale University
10	Cornell University
11	University of California, Los Angeles
12	University of California, San Diego
13	University of Pennsylvania
14	University of Washington

Just for fun, here arfe the current AP football rankings:

AP Top 25
RK	TEAM	RECORD	PTS
1	Oregon (36)	11-0	1475
2	Auburn (23)	12-0	1456
3	TCU (1)	12-0	1383
4	Wisconsin	11-1	1289
5	Stanford	11-1	1283
6	Ohio State	11-1	1184
7	Michigan State	11-1	1098
8	Arkansas	10-2	1094
9	Boise State	10-1	908
10	Oklahoma	10-2	886
11	LSU	10-2	856
12	Virginia Tech	10-2	761
13	Nebraska	10-2	740
14	Nevada	11-1	736
15	Missouri	10-2	691
16	Oklahoma State	10-2	599
17	Alabama	9-3	597
18	South Carolina	9-3	591
19	Texas A&M	9-3	582
20	Florida State	9-3	356
21	Utah	10-2	249
22	Mississippi State	8-4	224
23	West Virginia	8-3	147
24	Northern Illinois	10-2	130
25	Hawaii	9-3	43

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Tags: privitization, Sports, Washington State, Washington State
Posted 03 Dec 2010 by theaveeditor in Schools & Colleges, UW

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