Fidel Castro on world food supply: …….On Saturday, January 29, the Internet news bulletin which I receive daily reproduced an article by Lester R. Brown published on the Organic Way website and datelined January 10, whose content, I believe, should be widely circulated. Its author is the[...]
Archive for March, 2011
March 24th, 2011 - 6:39 am § in Uncategorized
FOOD: Burgers
Seattle has gotten burger happy. You can get everything from ground Kobe to frozen and chewed leather. Some places that get lots of hype, e.g. the Red Mill, serve something vaguely like the cheap hamburgers of my childhood. Dicks outdoes McD’s for the best fast food version of a burger. Ot[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 3:39 pm § in Uncategorized
“You are so wrong!!” More on HB1822 and Western Governors
Here is Rep. Phyllis Kenney’s response to my email asking questions about HB1822 “You are so wrong!!” That may be, but I still can not get answers to my questions from her or from any other source that supports Western Governors University. a. What is WGU’s real graduation ra[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 8:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
More on WGU: Will WA vote to lower standards of higher ed.?
The bill to make Western Governors University an official state university will probably pass. Johann Neem from United Faculty of Washington Blog. This blog has been against it for all the right reasons—that it denigrates the value and meaning of a college education, reducing college to a set of s[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 4:05 am § in Uncategorized
Microsoft Watching Over The Web
from The Microsoft Blog U.S. Marshals seized hard drives and servers at Internet service providers in seven U.S. cities including Seattle, disconnecting most of the IP addresses that controlled the botnet, according to court documents. The servers were removed as evidence and will be analyzed by Mic[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:58 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Engineering vs. liberal arts: Who’s right — Bill or Steve?
Vivek Wadhwa, Duke College of engineering Ed. Prof. Wadha writes about a dilemma. While he feels strongly that the humanities are essential for educating creative people in his discipline, graduates of humanities programs have huge trouble being employed. He noted that 63% of the CEOs or heads[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in America
Is MaBell Back?
Ed. We all made fun of MaBell .. she was a monopoly Then came court decisions and the internet phone. Free enterprise was great, while it lasted. from Bloomberg AT&T Inc. (T) agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) for about $39 billion in cash and stock to create America’s[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:24 pm § in Misc.
$100,000,000 given to public universitry to establish private medica school!
from Huff Post KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Donors have given Western Michigan University $100 million to launch a private medical school. University President John Dunn says it is one of the largest cash gifts donated to a U.S. university. Dunn said Tuesday that the money will serve as “foundation fu[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 6:28 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WGU’s model for “online education.” There IS a better way.
Ed. The discussion the last couple of days here has referred to “online education” as if that were some sort of magic. BroadWebcast a lecture, add some mulitple choice questions and … you are ONLINE! This sort of computer based learning is just a sad extension of the overlo0asded c[...]