From Huffington: According to a new study, legacy status may matter a lot more in college admissions than previously estimated, offering an advantage of up to 45.1 percent. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that in an article titled “The impact of legacy status on undergraduate admissi[...]
Archive for January 6th, 2011
January 6th, 2011 - 11:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Legacy Status Gives a 45% Affirmative Action Advantage!
January 6th, 2011 - 3:56 pm § in Politics
What America COMPETES Act Means to the UW
This is a response to the question how the LameDuck passage of the America Competes act will affect the UW. from Jonathan Nurse, Assistant Director, Office of Federal Relations, UW America COMPETES Act Reauthorization The recently signed American COMPETES Act reauthorization allows for increases to [...]
January 6th, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Misc.
Will Biotech Mean Jobs in Seattle?
Biotech is a major part of the hoped-for-future of Seattle. Is the promise real? Will there be jobs? No one knows more about this then Luke Timmerman, the Seattle based national biotech reporter for Xconomy, a news agency devoted to high technology. Like will talk at 9 AM, Tuesday the 18th o[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Faculty Chaos, UK Style.
The battle for control of Britain’s faculty union, the University and College Union, is under way, as a powerful leftist group plans a leadership challenge following a split over support for student protests. The turmoil within the organization, which represents about 120,000 higher education [...]
Creationism vs the Pope
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism — the belief that God created the world in six days as described in the Bible — and says that the account in the book of Genesis is an allegory for the way God created the world. But it objects to using evolution to back an atheist philos[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 11:59 am § in Uncategorized
Harvard President: Future of Harvard
An In-Depth Interview With Drew Faust, President of Harvard University Huffington Post.[...]
UW Senate: Future of The University of Washington
Bruce Balick is the former Chair of the Faculty Senate and currently Chairs the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting What follows is his committee’s recommendations to Provost Lidstrrom for how we should manage the budget crisis. I am struck by this document’s lack of priorities.[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 8:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
What is wrong with Scientific Publishing?
Can we put it right before it is too late? from Cambridge I sat down today to write code and and found that I couldn’t – I had to write about science publishing, so here goes. I intend this will be the first of several posts. I often blog in forceful style (rant?) but here […][...]
What Could Possibly Be More Important Than Politics?
I do my best thinking in two places, both of which are in the bathroom. But I type in the kitchen, where the computer is located, usually after I’ve been drinking. Tonight I’m drinking St. Remy’s, an imported French brandy that costs $16.95 at the state liquor store. Alcohol is cheap; they mi[...]