University students are having to meet more of the cost of their higher education in countries with existing mass higher education systems and “aging demographics” – and the trend towards reduced public spending on universities looks set to continue. A new report, released today, s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academe’
March 1st, 2011 - 7:12 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Declines in Higher Education in US and Britain vs. Rest of World
February 28th, 2011 - 11:32 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
How The Washington Public Sees the UW.
From a colleague who prefers to be anonymous: related posts on governance. I would like to respond to the concerns Steve has posted about the way the UW presents itself to the citizens of this state. We have lost our standing in front of our fellow citizens and our legislators in Olympia. The image [...]
February 24th, 2011 - 8:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
UPDATE:What Happened to the Boycott of NATURE?
Last August, the University of California and Nature Publishing Group, announced “an agreement to work together to address the current licensing challenges as well as the larger issues of sustainability in the scholarly communication process.” I can find nothing on the web about[...]
February 9th, 2011 - 6:46 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WA Legislators Think Online=Free
Unfortunately, opposition to real educational technology now comes from all sides. Union advocates are worried about losing faculty jobs. The politicians want to save bucks now, no matter what that costs later. :Luddites, lack Glen Beck, don’s care because they think learning is worthless [...]
Awards to UW Faculty
Bill Catterall honored with Wachter Research Prize (from UW Medicine) Bill Catterall, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, has been awarded the 2010 Wachter Research Prize by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, for exceptional scientific achievements in all fields of medicine. Catterall was re[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:09 am § in Uncategorized
The Sound Bite, How Humans are Evolving?
abstracted from an article by Craig Fehrman at Boston.com By 1992 the length of the average TV sound bite had dropped to a mere nine seconds. “If you couldn’t say it in less than 10 seconds,” Michael Dukakis complained , “it wasn’t heard because it wasn’t aired.” David M. Ryfe and Ma[...]
How the UW Admin “Talks” To Its Community.
I am posting the latest “UW Today” digest because I think the UW NEEDS to do a much better job of communicating. Second, I would like people off campus to realize who insipid the UW’s communications really are. UW Today is insipid, like any corporate in house newsletter. UWT re[...]
Sci Fi Museum Founder Funds Science.
Paul Allen, sometimes seen as the Tonto to Bill Gates, has a vision of his own but .. what a difference! Where Gates is building the Gates Foundation as an awesome, multi billion dollar heritage, Allan continues to spent much smaller amounts on eclectic, perhaps Quixotic monuments. The latest [...]
An Open Letter to the Search Committee
These are hard times, we all know that. These are also times when Washington State has a unique, competitive resource … a great university, the University of Washington. The UW needs more than a great administrator or even a great fund raiser, we need a leader with the personal achievement and[...]