The issues relating to the need for due process in scientific fraud at the UW, are illustrated by this frightening report from the Scientist about a scandal in Germany. There is, however, one very important difference. The investigation at at Research Center Borstel seems to have fol[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Administration’
Is the UW Senate Powerless to Act?
The following is part of an email from three UW Senators to their colleagues in the faculty. It sounds to me as if the Senate is taking no action on the abuse of Andrew Aprikyan other than saying the President was wrong. Does the Senate have no authority? Can a UW admin. violate the Code […[...]
January 11th, 2011 - 7:16 pm § in Misc.
Faculty Senate Chair J.W. Harrington: “Someone needs to draw up a draft of something that could be discussed and approved as an interpretation from this body.”
The report of the Senate Executive Committee meeting of the Aprikyan affair appeared in today’s Daily and is copied below. I was not there, but it appears that the highest committee of the faculty has clearly stated that the administration was wrong. The question is what next. Professor Ha[...]
Carlyle: Merge State Colleges into a UW/WSU System?
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (edited from his blog) ….. Recently I find myself looking at the large scale structural issue in higher education with a recognition and acknowledgement that despite my private protests governance does matter. But I don’t mean governance in the Olympia sense of whether to[...]
January 9th, 2011 - 6:09 pm § in Misc.
Aprikyan: An Appeal for Justice.
The Time Has Come for the UW to Admit it Was Wrong. A few days ago, a respected colleague dismissed Andrew Aprikyan’s case, saying that “of course” Dr. Aprikyan was and is guilty. I refused to comment, not because I know that Andrew Aprikyan is innocent but because I feel Dr. Apr[...]
UW Senate: Future of The University of Washington
Bruce Balick is the former Chair of the Faculty Senate and currently Chairs the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting What follows is his committee’s recommendations to Provost Lidstrrom for how we should manage the budget crisis. I am struck by this document’s lack of priorities.[...]
November 29th, 2010 - 10:25 am § in Uncategorized
To Big to be Known, Protecting Possible UW Presidents
Confidentiality Is Becoming the Norm in Presidential Searches By Dennis M. Barden Mr. Barden is a vice president at Witt/Kieffer, an executive search firm. Witt Keiffer is not the search firm hired by the UW for our search. from the Chronicle of Higher Eduation, November 28, 2010 Mr. Barden writes a[...]
Public Records Laws In The Real World
I want to cover two disparate topics in this article, so the structure of this article is two unrelated discussions, one after the other. Public records laws exist at both the federal and state levels. At the federal level, we have the Freedom of Information Act, commonly referred to as FOIA. In Was[...]
November 3rd, 2010 - 12:49 pm § in UW
Are you using gmail yet????
This AM I received a bulk email from the School of Med. warning about use of the UW email system for anything other than official state business. I take the comments in this letter seriously, even though they are obviously in conflict with the need any University has for free and open discussion. Th[...]
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[...]