from the UW’s Young to MIT’s new hire Ed. Yesterday I heard that China should surpass the US as the world’s #1 1 economy by the end of President Obama’s next term. Perhaps, and Mussolini made the trains run on time! What these scenarios miss is the huge strength of Americ[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
八英雄 Dozens Targeted in Chinese Crackdown on Critical Voices
from Der Springer Sandra Schulz in Shanghai eight heroes Ai Weiwei Liu Xianbin Ni Yulan Zhao Lianhai Liu Xiaoyuan Ran Yunfei Liu Xiaobo Teng Biao The recent disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made headlines around the world. But the Chinese regime has also targeted dozens of other critics a[...]
April 23rd, 2011 - 6:36 am § in UW
GO HUSKIES … To The Polls!
The student population of Seattle is a very large but largely voiceless population of potential voters. The same issue confronts students in any university town, read what is happening in the District of Columbia! From The Hoya, Newspaper of Gerogetown University DC. (excerpted) DC Students Speak is[...]
Who is Morozov? Amazing ideas about education, freedom, and the internet!
This cartoon is awesome. I can not summarize what is in this cartoon … ritalin, the enlightenment, radical right classist efforts to restrict education, … get some coffee, tea or a glass of wine and WATCH! from a comment at YouTube: “It would be nice to see the President (us[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 12:53 pm § in America
UPDATE: Wisconsin Voters Recall Republican Judge
UPDATE: — The Waukesha County clerk announced that the vote total announced for Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race had been mistaken — The new total puts Prosser on a significant path to victory, about 7,500 votes ahead of Kloppenburg. Sad outcome. Will the energy that [...]
The Republican ignorance agenda
Robin Lakoff, from Berkeley Blog Conservative Republicans have been very busy lately making inroads into teaching and learning at all levels — a curious program, especially at a time when more serious voices have been urging America to strengthen its investment in science and technology in order t[...]
March 28th, 2011 - 1:32 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Letter seeks to reassure alumni that tenured faculty members are not under attack.
from the statesman.com more on The AVE about the University of Texas, including the effort to lower standards in a medical school. and proposals to arm the faculty. University of Texas System regents, stung by criticism a day earlier from the alumni association at UT-Austin, pledged support Friday f[...]
March 18th, 2011 - 6:16 am § in America
Freedom of The Web.
Ed. After the North African and Bahraini revolutions, there can be no doubt that free and unlimited access to the web needs to become a basci, human right. For other posts on this subject, click here. by Geov, 03/17/2011, 11:14 AM It’s a staple of the mudslinging in comment threads at various poli[...]
March 9th, 2011 - 12:07 pm § in Uncategorized
UPDATE: Supreme Court Decision May Have Huge Affect on Faculty Governance
Ed. My concerns about Stanford v. Roche may have been understated now that I have read more about the new patent law passed by the US Senate. That law would award patents to the first to file rather than, as present, the first to invent. This conflicts with the way things are done at universit[...]
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[...]