The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,113 and the total n[...]
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May 19th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Two UW faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
February 10th, 2011 - 6:28 pm § in Misc.
UW Senate Blog
Link here to Senate Blog. Because the UW Senate Blog is published behind the UW firewall, those Ave readers can not directly access this public record. As a service to the wider community, we will periodically, repost the blog here on the Ave. UW faculty, students and staff should be able to acces[...]
February 17th, 2014 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
William Quick, the troll
Feeding a Troll The Ave does not get a lot of comments, but my brother in law, William Quick, seems to be single handedly posting comments intended, I assume, to disparage me. The essence of his comments is that I am some sort of mentally ill person engaged in an effort to defame my brother [&he[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Are we bringing the Walmart Model to the Universities?
Pope Francis has described pay too low to allow workers to better themselves as “wage slavery.” This topic has come up on THE Ave before. Taken to its extreme, Washington State now has “Western Governors University” .. a university with no faculty. at the UW A[...]
AAUP: Welcomes President Young with concern about the process used to select him.
As the media have announced that Michael Young is the new President of the UW, the UW AAUP expresses welcome and concern about the process. Dear Colleagues, The Board of Regents still has not announced who will be the new President of UW, but with the Seattle Times running front-page stories on Mich[...]
When in Doubt, Tax the Students
by Daron Anderson of UW Daily The state needs money, and the state Legislature is considering cutting the State Need Grant, the UW’s largest financial-aid program, then using student tuition dollars to make up the difference. The Washington Senate Ways and Means committee proposed a $25 million cu[...]
November 17th, 2010 - 8:49 pm § in Uncategorized
Could College Athletics Be REALLY Professionalized?
Over at HorsesAss there has been an interesting discussion, why not fully professionalize the Huskies? The idea posted at HA is pretty simple. The UW Huskies, along with other college branded farm teams, would be privatized. This new company, perhaps a non profit, would hire professionals, inc[...]
More than just football players
The NCAA must do more to help prepare current and former student athletes for life after sports. A start would be allowing kids to actually major in subjects they are interested in. In 2002, I received an athletic scholarship, for basketball, from the University of Washington. I attended the schoo[...]