This awesome achievement is one our state should not only cherish but build upon. Reuters may have offered me a simple way to explain why the UW is so important to our state. That great news agency has just rated us as #4 in “innovation” amongst all the universities in t[...]
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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[...]
October 21st, 2014 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Umbundling Tenure
From Inside Higher Education: The fact is that much of the debate, in the United States and elsewhere, about the challenges facing higher education is focused in the wrong direction. Rather than constantly squeezing the professoriate and trying to ensure maximum productivity in narrowly defined area[...]
October 8th, 2011 - 6:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
Corporate Inflation on Campus
To the student or legislator paying tuition, or the taxpayer funding NIH, it does not matter whether administrators are using their money to pay themselves or increase their staffs,;the difference is a distinction with no meaning. The focus of the public discussiion is always the same … [...]
An Indictment of the Repricans
What is a Reprican? Sorry, but I made up this word. I needed a new word for the Republicans. I consider myself a follower of Jefferson. He created the “Republican Party.” I needed a word to refer to what has become of the Republican party. I needed a term that combined “REP[...]
April 23rd, 2011 - 7:25 am § in UW
UPDATE: A true moderate Republican UW President might be in a position to use moral persuasion to tether the red balloon of what I hope is still a rational remnant of the Evans’ political era.
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah’s Young chosen for top post at University of Washington Young, if he is the person in the smoke, has a number of intriguing features that we will certainly hear more about in coming days. To start with, Michael Young seems very different from Mark Emmert. When Emmert go[...]
April 10th, 2011 - 2:59 pm § in Schools & Colleges
AAUP: Rising Administrative Costs Endanger College Instructional Resources
AAUP Indiana Applauds Governor’s Call to Halt Excessive Growth in Administrative Expenditures … Hoosier parents and taxpayers are probably wondering where all of the money given to Indiana’s colleges and universities actually goes. They may be disappointed to discover that administ[...]
March 10th, 2011 - 6:54 am § in Misc.
Privatize the UW: One Way to Make a LOT of Money
Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 1:44 pm § in Misc.
Expediency vs. Morality
What to do about Libya ought to be a no-brainer. An odious dictator with a long record of sponsoring terrorism is now clinging to power in the face of popular revolt by mowing down unarmed demonstrators with jets, tanks, and machine guns. The Libyan people, who want to get rid of him, are facing [...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]