A serious challenge faces all of us at the UW. What are we going to be? How do we attract new, young faculty competitive enough to eventually win a federal grants or stimulate their students to greatness? The desperate reaction to Washington state’s cuts to higher education have led, rig[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Academic Standards’
Will NIH Go Chapter 11? Higher Education and the NIH Face a Fiscal Cliff
Report on Looming Federal Budget Cuts ‘Confirms the Worst’ for Higher Education By Lee Gardner Washington The dire consequences of looming automatic cuts in the federal budget came into sharper focus on Friday with the release of a 394-page report by the White House Office of Mana[...]
September 15th, 2012 - 10:05 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Chicago, is the strike over?
End to Chicago teachers’ strike is not assured Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/end-to-chicago-teachers-strike-is-not-assured/#ixzz26YRPjD3z Despite the somewhat dubious source at Fox news, I recommend this article. The article suggests that the strike may not end on Monday. Whi[...]
September 3rd, 2012 - 11:43 am § in Hypocrisy
Veritas Failure at Harvard
Harvard’s ‘Introduction To Congress’ Class Full Of Suspected Cheaters Eric Lach August 30, 2012, 5:44 PM More than 100 Harvard undergraduates are under investigation for allegedly plagiarizing on a certain class’ final take-home exam last spring. The class? Government 1310: “Introduction t[...]
September 2nd, 2012 - 9:11 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
How NIH Funding Effects Science As a Career
This letter appeared last September on The Scientist. The fact that becoming an independent researcher takes upwards of 15years is just too long for me. Furthermore, being in research for almost a decade (undergrad, graduate, 1 yr postdoc), I have noticed that funding favors medical researchers. I[...]
August 27th, 2012 - 8:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Election 2012 .. The Republican union issues come to the campus!
Calif RAs to Get Union Rights? By Bob Grant The California legislature takes steps to broaden the ability of graduate students to unionize by extending collective bargaining rights to research assistants.[...]
August 23rd, 2012 - 4:22 am § in Misc.
Misuse of “Diversity”
Ohio Gov Appoints Lying Jock With No College Degree To Board Of Ed, For ‘Diversification’ by Josh Fruhlinger If you were a governor, would you ever appoint someone to a state board, just because of his or her race? Of course not, that would be racism, even if that person’s race has been histor[...]
August 15th, 2012 - 9:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
Breaking News: Boston’s Northeastern University to open campus in South Lake Union
Northeastern University is coming to Seattle. This is BIG news. Northeastern is anything but another Western Governors or Delphi. Northeastern is very much a serious university built on a VERY different model than anything we have here. Its Boston campus offers high quality academic training, ea[...]
August 12th, 2012 - 1:11 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
WGU is stil there!
I find the editor to be an absolute moron. Lets all make dumbass claims with no sources or proof whatsoever. Here, I will make a claim that only an moron who actually thinks you can buy a degree from a regionally accredited college for $12000 will believe: The author is a very intelligent, well educ[...]
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]