From the Seattle Times: Washington opens wider the door to higher education with new College Grant program While Seattle’s ohso liberal community came out to vote against Amazon- supported candidates last week, maybe these same folks need to read this editorial in the Seattle Times. Evil Jef[...]
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WHY SEATTLE’S EFFORTS TO MAKE SLU A BIOTECH PARK FAILED
How Massachusetts Built A Booming Biotech Ecosystem and Washington Failed Original text appeared as an advertisement on 538 sponsored by WE WORK. The text written by Satta Sarmah-Hightower is abstracted for this post and commented by me in blue. The original premise of South Lake Union was that [...]
How the UW Could Fix the Emmert Mess
The scandals surrounding former UW President Mark Emmert began before he came here and were deepened before he left for his real job as NCAA commissioner. The Washington Post calls NCAA President Mark Emmert “the lord of a feudal state that knows its time is over. “ My two cents: Colle[...]
Trump’s fetal tissue ban
“Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” HHS (Axios, 6/6/2019, excerpted )The Trump administration announced yesterday that it will no longer fund medical research that uses fetal tissu[...]
Has the University of Washington Abandoned Tenure?
Does the UW still have tenure? When I became tenured, the code and state law described tenure in terms of a life long commitment to a position and a salary. The commitment was defined in terms of an academic year of 9 or 12 months. For either period, the UW and the state were committed [&h[...]
April 15th, 2019 - 11:14 am § in UW
TRADITION: UW Nobel Winner dies .. WHO CARES?
David Thouless — Nobel laureate and UW professor emeritus — dies at age 84 David James Thouless, UW professor emeritus and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016, died in Cambridge in the U.K. on April 6. Thouless was a theoretical physicist whose most well-known work focused on the pro[...]
The Scandal of Online Education
Highline, a new online magazine from the Huffington Post has a disturbing article on the abuse of higher education by private, for profit, online education services. The author, Kevin Carey is the director of education policy program at a policy institute, New America. His key points [...]
March 12th, 2019 - 11:07 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
A UW Student complains that she is not getting an education.
A relative of mine, a very well educated man, actually left his university as a sophomore. This relative, a he I will call Bjorn, ended up in tech because Bjorn is very bright and was offered a job after his sophomore year. Bjorn left his university (not the UW) not because of the tech courses[...]
Could Pat Shanahan Reshape Trump’s Administration?
Patrick Shanahan may be the ideal choice for a permanent Chief of Staff in Trump’s shaky office. I say this because, unlike most of Trump’s cabinet. Mr. Shanahan has major credibility and experience in the business world. The acting Secretary also has impressive ties to the worlds of t[...]
November 19th, 2018 - 4:30 pm § in UW
UW’s Ohso Lawyerly Sex Discrimination Video
Is it really true that the UW lacks the ability to create a real video? It is difficult to see this turgid video as anything other than a UW effort to cover its backside. Worse yet, is this sort of legalistic, mind numbing thirty minutes long text nation wide? Really? How many similar files exis[...]