The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academe’
October 13th, 2011 - 9:31 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Tenure
Florida Governor Rick Scott Takes Aim at Tenure Lisa Roney from Academe Blog I am a tenured associate professor at one of the largest (though, let me emphasize, not one of the highest ranked) public universities in the U.S. How can I explain why it is that this often makes me want to cry? Don’t[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 6:50 am § in Misc.
Depriving the already deprived, The government is bringing UK closer to the worst excesses of the US system,
By Ann Mroz, Times Higher Education (excerpted) There’s an old Polish saying that roughly translates as “when poverty comes through the door, love leaves through the window”. The same would seem true for competition and altruism. Widening participation is an issue that appears to b[...]
September 22nd, 2011 - 3:38 pm § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Republican Party Demands Harvard Censor Its Faculty
UPDATE FROM 9/21: Attacking Harvard, and Professors, from Academe. The Massachusetts Republican Party has written to Harvard, demanding that they refuse to pay Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for teaching one class twice a week this fall on contract law. Nate Little, executive direc[...]
POLITICS: The Harvard Prof Surges Against the Tea Party Favorite
I am a big fan of the idea that university faculty can and should be politically active. One reason I voted for President Obama was his impressive academic record. Less than a week ago. Harvard Law Profesor Elizabeth Warren launched her campaign for the democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in[...]
May 16th, 2011 - 8:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
Feds Replace College Faculty With Online Quizzes.
Ed: Imagine a future where a politically influenced, centralized, federal bureaucracy can put its stamp on courseware that awards credit in evolution, economics or even American History. This article in the Chronicle talks about a $2 billion dollar federal effort to develop open courseware. Th[...]
May 9th, 2011 - 6:43 am § in Schools & Colleges
Huff Post: What’s Wrong With American Higher Education?
“[One problem is] inequality — not just racial and ethnic — but also class inequality, which is something that is often overlooked in the literature. What is not getting attention is that since the 1980s class inequality in higher education is rising,[as a result of rising] tuition[...]
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[...]
OHIO: How to Eliminate Higher Education
Ed. This is hilarious. Among other ideas, Gov. Kasich wants students to graduate from college in three years. Combine that with the Washington state pattern of shifting the first two years out of Universities to the community colleges, and we can pump out BAs and BSs in ONE YEAR! Didn’t GM [...]
Seattle Times Endorses WGU, Says Diplomas Are The Issue.
The editorial (excerpts below) from the Seattle Times reveals an extraordinary lack of understanding by the Times .. and our legislators .. of the difference between a diploma and an education. Western Governors “carries the same level of accreditation as Stanford University and other institut[...]