The Female Orgasm: A Program About Sexual Health and Women’s Empowerment Date: 04/10/2013 Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Location: Northstar Ballroom St. Paul Student Center Cost: Free Description: Join us to laugh and learn about the “big O,” the most popular topic sex educators Do[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Academic Standards’
September 23rd, 2013 - 12:45 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Berkeley Blog
Let’s not get too excited about the new UC open access policy Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 8/3/13 It was announced today that systemwide Academic Senate representing the 10 campuses of the University of California system had passed an “open access” policy[...]
September 20th, 2013 - 9:14 am § in Religion
HYPING SCIENCE
The Telegraph reports that the Japanese government has drawn up a recommendation that will permit growth of human organs, from stem cells, in pigs. The claim is that the stem cells will “grow into a perfect human organ, a kidney or even a heart, as the host animal matures. When the adult creat[...]
September 16th, 2013 - 2:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Gates Foundations Spends 5 billion on redesign of higher education
The low-cost, self-paced education lacks courses and traditional professors. Instead, students progress by showing mastery of 120 “competencies,” such as “can use logic, reasoning, and analysis to address a business problem.” http://chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/1403[...]
September 10th, 2013 - 4:35 am § in Uncategorized
Nursing and Western Governors University
comment from a nurse about WGU: I am a Registered Nurse. I got the degree that made me eligible for the NCLEX exam at a traditional brick and mortar college, and one of the oldest nursing programs in the country. Nursing courses are all pass/fail. The NCLEX exam is pass/fail. Some schools gr[...]
Commentary by Anthony: The Term “Student-Athlete” Is A Joke.
As a former “Student-Athlete” at the University of Washington I always thought this term was a joke. Coming into the University of Washington from Garfield High School, my GPA was unacceptable by Udubs academic standards. I had a 2.3 and my SAT score was an 890. Frankly, this was wa[...]
July 12th, 2013 - 8:54 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Why not recruit the next University President from Disney?
Janet Napolitano to become President of the University of California? “While some may consider her to be an unconventional choice, Secretary Napolitano is without doubt the right person at the right time to lead this incredible university,” the former film studio executive Sherry Lansing, who he[...]
June 13th, 2013 - 9:34 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Genes can NOT be patented!
“We merely hold that genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible … simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material,” … Clarence Thomas This morning the Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented! The decision, [...]
May 14th, 2013 - 9:48 am § in Misc.
Is the UW Exempt from Miranda Rights?
Even Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his Miranda rights … not so Andrew Aprikyan. This UW faculty member was tried and convicted of criminal activities without even being told of his rights. The President of the University, a man selected for his job based on qualifications to manage the a[...]
The Tabloid Science Journals Attack Open Acess
Over at Science, John Bohannon writes of an experiment. He submitted a phony paper to a large number of open access journals. “157 of the journals had accepted the paper and 98 …rejected it. Of the remaining 49 journals, 29 seem to be derelict: websites abandoned by their creators[...]