Norm Arkans, the UW public relations spokesman, has announced that UW virus researcher Michael Katze is being charged with sexual harassment. “His conduct was inappropriate and not in any way reflective of the university’s values,” UW spokesman Norm Arkans said today in a statement posted[...]
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UW abolishes shared governance II: A response by the President
Response to AAUP comment about the appointment of a UW Provost with no search Before appointing a search committee, I asked for advice as to whether to proceed with such a search at the Senate Executive Committee (Professor Wood was present at that meeting). I further asked that if anyone had con[...]
December 11th, 2015 - 11:22 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW Needs a Stronger Senate Before it Needs an SEIU Union
Pedro Verdugo “In fact the ball is in Ana Mari’s court. She might be constrained by a powerful Board of Regents, and by a heavy UW bureaucracy. Nevertheless, many of us in the faculty are betting that she might be the President that once and for all resolves these shameful shortcomings of co[...]
LETS MAKE UW AN ENDOWMENT FUNDED PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
The UW AAUP (below) is advocating “a Fully-Funded, Democratically Run UW.” This seems to me to be a very poorly thought out idea. Here is my alternative. Of course most liberals believe that our state should fully support the costs fo all higher education. Of course we. as a com[...]
No Minimum Wage for Huskie Players .. we can not afford it!
Amazing .. Local politics seesm to have penetrated all the way to the NCAA! Mow yhe NCAA seems to have adopted the meme used here in Seattle to oppose a minimum age! Now our former UW President, Marc Emmert, is claiming that paying football players and basketball players any wage would mean the[...]
April 30th, 2015 - 11:06 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
AAUP Investigation Condemns Phyllis Wise and UI for Violating Steve Salaita’s Academic Freedom
In a nutshell, the national AAUP has found that there is no evidence that Phyllis Wise made her decision about Salaita based on any valid concern with his scholarship. What basis could there be other than pressure from advocates for Israel? This is not new behavior to those of us w[...]
Losing the UW, Losing a President
Higher-ed spending in Texas lured UW’s president With a stable endowment from oil revenues and a new governor who talks of lifting the state’s public universities into the top tier, Texas proved a powerful draw for University of Washington President Michael Young. By Katherine LongSeattle[...]
And so it goes … another UW President rides off
The Seattle Times Reports that Michael Young Has Been Offered The Presidency of Texas A&M The reason’s for Young’s leaving are not known. However, he had stated that A REASON FOR COMING HERE WAS THE HUGE LEVEL OF PRESTRIGE THE UW AS A RESERACH INSTITUTION. As the current legislatu[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 10:59 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Why the angst over academic administrators?
Over at the UW LISTSERV, Sarah Nash Gates commented on a controversy about administrators The controversy was a (false) accusation that our current Provost and President had not been or were not now academics. The truth is that both Dr. Cauci and Dr. Young are superb scholars, the knd of folk[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 8:21 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW: Maybe the Regents Need to Pay More Attention to WHOM they Appoint
If there is a take home lesson in the Wise case, it is for the UW Regents to carefully reexamine the head hunters recruitment suggestion and selection of high power academic bureaucrats. We ended with a half a billion dollar stadium during the midst of a deep economic crisis, resulting from a decisi[...]