Last Friday, the Washington State Senate voted to lower the standards of our colleges and universities to a standard that is shocking. These votes were not based on the need to control the bidgets. They actually add to the costs of higher education in the State. As a result of these votes, I wou[...]
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April 6th, 2011 - 10:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Kristoff: on faculty unions.
Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Teaching is unusual among the professions in that it pays poorly but has strong union protections and lockstep wage increases. It’s a factory model of compensation, and critics are right to fault it. But the bottom line is that we should pay teachers more, not less �[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 7:28 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: Bad Investment: Enrollment Plummets at University of Phoenix, Implications for Washington’s Layoff of Higher Ed faculty
Updated from original post on 25 Feb 2011 : As we struggle with the soaring demand for higher ed, how will we meet it if we fire faculty? Last month’s news release about the fall in sales by the Univ. Of Phoenix needs to be paired with the severe cuts being made in faculty in […][...]
April 4th, 2011 - 2:15 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UPDATE: What is “competency based learning?”
(Updated from April 3.) Ed. Senator Kohl-Welles, who holds a PhD in education, has told us that she wil vote AGAINST the Senate version of HB1822. To support her, you might send an email to [email protected]. Ed. I have found Dr. Mendenhall’s thesis on the web. (The entire th[...]
March 31st, 2011 - 6:12 pm § in Misc.
Tomorrow’s Seattle Times
Tomorrow, the Seattle Times is running OP-Eds about Western Governors Univeristy. One will be by Johan Neem from Western Washington and one will be from Robert Mendenhall, the President of Western Governors whom we have discussed several times here before. I recommend that you read it. The AVE wil[...]
March 28th, 2011 - 8:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Strange Endorsements of WGU
In a search for sites that might have comments on WGU by students, I found “Universiry” an online site that purports to be Official site with links to, and information about, the departments, faculties, colleges, people, and organizations that make up (different) Universit(ies).”[...]
March 21st, 2011 - 1:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Follow up: Is the loss of faculty jobs justified by magical new technology?
Academic Salaries? Not so Golden! Earlier today, I posted on the $700,000 salary of the President of an online only, no faculty university called Western Governors University. How does President Mendenhall justify such a salary? His website suggests he can do this because he claims not to ne[...]
How to Cut Costs of Higher Ed? .. eliminate the faculty
Bill would partner Washington with online university Western Governors University Enrollment: 20,000 students nationwide, 900 of them in Washington state. Degrees offered: More than 50 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in subjects such as business, health, information technology an[...]