The public sees the University of Washington as the home for an elite faculty. Does that status imply our right to use the UW brand to promote our ideas? At one extreme, the answer is yes. The Faculty Code clearly describes our obligations as Professors as being much more than didactive pedagogy d[...]
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September 16th, 2011 - 8:15 am § in Schools & Colleges
Borrowed Gravitas: Does The Existance of a Univeristy Imply Free Speech?
June 27th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who Owns My Gravitas?
The public sees the University of Washington as the home for an elite faculty. They, the public, expect us to hold forth in our areas of expertise. In effect we are paid to use the UW brand to promote our ideas. The tricky questions is how doe s0one define expertise? That question has came u[...]
June 18th, 2011 - 6:03 am § in Misc.
Why the Seattle Schools Are So Lousy
Publicola reports on contremps about School District endorsements at the 36th District Democrats (Ballard, Greenwood, Phinney Ridge, Fremont, Queen Anne, Magnolia, and Belltown) Former KUOW weather man Cliff Mass supports the challengers in the stormy school board races. The incumbents are Peter Mai[...]
June 16th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
The Decline and Fall of Education in Washington State
During WWII something pretty amazing happened here … A rural, hick state emerged at or near the top of America’s technocracy. Two war time efforts drove this transformation… Boeing built the airplanes that won the war and Hanford’s plutionium, dropped from one of those pl[...]
May 22nd, 2011 - 8:55 am § in UW
A UW Ed Professor Defends the “Discovery” Curriculum.
from AAUP listserv. Matthew Weinstein, Professor of Science Education I’m on the science-ed side of the house and only know the math education issues schematically. My colleague Julia Aguirre could much better speak to the math issue. First, let me say, I love Cliff’s blog and have appre[...]
BREAKING NEWS: KUOW Censors a UW Voice of Reason
A UW Professor’s Efforts to Speak Out on Science and Education Are Censored Ironically, I had just asked Cliff for permission to crosspost his effort to get Seattle Public Schools to raise their math standards. That post just went up on The AVE. The shocking part of this story is how I learn[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 10:03 am § in Uncategorized
A UW Prof: Who SHOULD Be A: UW Student?
UW Admissions and the Budget Cuts from Cliff Mass and UW AAUP listserv After the Seattle Times published a front page article: Why Straight-A Students Won’t Get into the UW this Year there has been a firestorm of comments in the media and blogosphere–and I have gotten quite a few emails [...]
December 18th, 2021 - 12:15 am § in Economics, Schools & Colleges
Should students get debt forgiveness?
Paying student debt has been suspended during the pandemic, but the moratorium is about to expire. “Student loan payments were initially paused nationwide in March 2020 under a moratorium enacted by then-President Trump, which has been extended several times under the Trump and Biden administr[...]
July 16th, 2021 - 2:12 am § in Environment, Science
A brief history of climate disasters that collapsed civilizations
“The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.” “All of recorded human history … has played out in perhaps the most stable climate window of the past 650,000 years. We have been shielded from the climate’s violence by our short … memory, and … [...]
Commentary by Harrison: Hurricane Sandy
Prof Jennifer Francis gave last Friday’s Colloquium talk at UW, discussing possible physical connections between Arctic Warming and mid-latitude extreme weather: Hurricane Sandy, and all that. Presently at Rutgers University, Francis earned her PhD at UW in 1995 [I think], working with Cliff M[...]