from God experts A week ago, 37 lawsuits totaling about $3.1 million were filed in a Portland, Oregon bankruptcy court against organizations affiliated with the Jesuit province covering the northwestern United States. Two years earlier, that province had filed for bankruptcy, claiming assets of appr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academe’
March 12th, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Jesuit Bankruptcy, a threat to Seattle University and Gonzaga University?
March 10th, 2011 - 6:17 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Disenfranchisement of Student Voters
Conservative Corporate Advocacy Group ALEC Behind Voter Disenfranchisement Efforts The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative organization linked to corporate and right-wing donors, including the billionaire Koch brothers, has drafted and distributed model legislation, obtained[...]
March 9th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
Does Inclusiveness Lower Academic Standards?
Editorial By The Daily Orange Editorial Board, Syracuse University Published: Monday, February 21, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 02:02 CORRECTION: In this editorial, the change in the percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students is misstated. In 2009, 26.5 percent of students were Pell Gran[...]
URGENT: Call From UW Students For Faculty to Lobby on Monday!
To concerned faculty The ASUW Office of Government Relations, in conjunction with the Washington Student Association, is participating in a statewide lobby day down in Olympia on this coming Monday, 3/7/11. In response to the recent and proposed cuts to higher education we want to present a united f[...]
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. [...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 7:25 am § in Schools & Colleges
Free Speech Win in US Supreme Court 8:1
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. Ed. This is a central ruling for those of us devoted to the Frirst Amendment. While[...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 12:09 am § in Uncategorized
“We don’t have teachers. We have mentors. Mentors don’t teach your classes. You’re learning on your own.”
“I’m going to Western Governors University” Submitted by Johann Neem on Wed, 03/02/2011 – 17:29 from UFWS blog. So this blogger decided that the future is uncertain, and that perhaps he should return to school. Knowing that the House recently voted to support making Western Gov[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
What China Can Teach Us About Evaluating Universities
from AAUP listserv I have no qualms with getting public universities to focus on graduation rates of students and employment rates of graduates, though I would agree with many colleagues that such a focus slants towards a narrow perspective of public universities’ missions. One real difficulty (an[...]
UW Not in Top 15 Post Doc Opportunities in the US
The Hutch and ISB did make the list but the UW did not. This list seems to me to be very worrisome. The ratings of postdocs are likely more realistic than ratings from news papers like US News and World Report. I also note that the issue is not just that fellows are choosing places […][...]
Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people and our leaders wondering about the worth of our most valuable strengths.
Ed. This was originally posted on the AAUP listserv. I have left the authors’ identity confidential because of concerns of responses from administration. Our country seems to be fatally wounded. Perhaps the experience of losing a war, and perhaps two more, has left the soul of our people a[...]