The UW Tacoma campus is inviting the campus community and folks from the wider community to join us and make art together that will process the fear, grief and rage many people are experiencing. The next ART BUILD will be this Friday from noon until 4 at 1901 Fawcett Ave, Tacoma. Staff, students,[...]
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AFTER TRUMP: Making Art at UW Tacoma as Solice
October 26th, 2016 - 10:37 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW Gets Amazing Gift From Bill and Melinda Gates
$210M from Gates Foundation toward bold goal of improving world’s health[...]
UW Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Physics:
Today’s Nobel Prize in Physics given to the UW’s Professor David Thouless shows how important it is for the UW to explain itself as more than just the home of our wondrous Husky football team. The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to David Thouless from the University o[...]
September 29th, 2016 - 10:51 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
The UW Argues About A Union
A dialog from from AAUP listserv GAUTHAM P. REDDY to Faculty Amy, Congratulations on undertaking this fascinating and innovative study that demonstrates the benefit that unions have provided (and likely will continue to provide) for working people in our nation. It is unfortunate that union members[...]
September 22nd, 2016 - 9:44 am § in Misc.
Kshama Sawant Plays the Trump Card: Attacks the UW for studying the $15 minimum wage
“It is professionally irresponsible to draw such a conclusion from the data at this time.” Kshama Sawant The Seattle Times Reports: Professor Jacob Vigdor and other members of a UW team published a preliminary study of the effects of the $15 minimum wage in Seattle. Whatever good that has d[...]
Former UW Prexy Young, Now Tops Pay for Presidents at a Public University.
Chiefs of 5 public colleges paid more than $1M The AP (story by COLLIN BINKLEY) is reporting that pay for presidents at state universities is continuing to climb at over 4% per year in defiance of the public outcry of the cost of higher education. Chiefs at 5 schools topped the $1 mill[...]
Michael Katze, UW Professor, charged with sex abuse
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[...]
UW cuts teaching history, philosophy, anthropology, political science, geography, and sociology
Setting aside the lack of publicized enrollment data, the rationale for cutting TA positions is rooted in the university’s market-based, neoliberal budgeting model. Rod Palmquist, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Geography The College of Arts and Sciences is facing a long-term budget shortfall of $1[...]
Why should any highly qualified kid go to the UW?
Perhaps the time has come to question the purpose of the UW. If we are here to serve our state‘s best students, then why should they go here when the ivies now offer full boat scholarships to any kid good enough to get in? Perhaps instead Washington should be investing resources on helping [...]
The UW Falls in the Ranking: Is #54 Something to be Proud Of?
The Seattle Times today proudly ranks the UW as # 54 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 list of the best national universities. We rank 16th among public universities in this list. I am unimpressed My issue here is completely different from the usual debate in our state about how can we s[...]