The Seattle Times reports that some legislators are worried that the proposed new WSU School of Medicine will be, in effect, a religious school limited by its association with Spokane’s Sacred Heart Hospital. Sacred Heart, of course is required to limit its practice in areas of reproductive [...]
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February 10th, 2015 - 12:28 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
A Religious Reason Not to Create a WSU School of Medicine
July 19th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Indiana AG bullying abortion doctor hit with lawsuit and bar complaint
Todd Rokita (photo, right), the GOP attorney general who’s harassing a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim, is facing repercussions. Rokita falsely claimed on Fox News that Dr. Caitlin Bernard failed to report the abortion and has “a history” of reporting [...]
June 14th, 2016 - 8:25 am § in Misc.
Does WSU have an extra billion dollars to pay for its medical school?
The Moscow-Pullman Daily News’ editorial board rightly called the university’s reliance on tuition dollars a “monumental pyramid scheme.” A year After Washington State University decided to spend hundreds of millions on a medical school for the sole purpose of competing with the UW Medical S[...]
June 23rd, 2015 - 2:42 pm § in Schools & Colleges
WSU’s medical school gets a name
“Support is growing to name the new Washington State University medical school for Elson Floyd,” the Seattle Times reported today. Floyd was WSU’s president until he died last week. “Meanwhile, Washington State University on Tuesday announced the creation of the Dr. Elson S. [...]
April 14th, 2015 - 10:58 am § in Misc.
UW WSU Fight over $$, May Cost WA Kids Their Chance to Go to Medical School!
Click the icon to read THE Ave’s reporting on the effort by WSU to create its own school of medicine. This conflict is inane. WSU wants a medical school for the local pork generated by state dollars. To get this money they are either naïve or being facile about the 100s of millions of [...]
March 25th, 2015 - 9:33 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Legislature okays WSU med school, but withholds initial funding
If WSU can raise the funds on its own, it makes sense to go ahead! “A nearly century-old restriction giving the University of Washington the exclusive right to operate a public medical school in the state of Washington was removed by the Legislature on Wednesday, opening the door for Was[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 4:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Legislature okays WSU med school
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1917, the Washington legislature divvied up academic responsibilities between the University of Washington and Washington State University. The UW got law, medicine, forestry, library sciences, and fisheries; WSU got agriculture, agricultural economics, and veterinary medi[...]
March 8th, 2015 - 6:41 pm § in The Ave Scene
More on The Cougar School of Medicine and PORK.
Over at the AAUP listserv, Professor Sharona Gordon asked a good question : . Who is it at WSU that wants a new medical school? Don’t they have shared governance? Is it the faculty and the administration? Do the students have a say? Is it just the board of regents? Can someone explain their logic?[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 11:57 pm § in America
The News Tribune on Creating a Cougar School of Medicine
The media war over where to spend state dollars on medical education continues in the pages of Tacoma’s News Tribune. Mikal Thomsen, a WSU graduate, writing at the explicit request of WSU, talks about his surviving a stroke and goes on to make the absurd claim that he might not have survived [...]
March 1st, 2015 - 1:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
State Legislature Moves Cougar School of Medicine Forward!~
There are ONLY two reasons to support the WSU idea ..PORK and POLITICS. Despite that, Reuven Carlyle reports that the “House Appropriations Comm voted Friday to allow WSU to begin process of opening a medical school. I voted ‘no’ and here’s why: While I totally support their [...]