from Publicola By Rep. Marko Liias, In 2009, I proudly led the fight on the floor of the State House of Representatives against a proposal to increase tuition at our state colleges by nearly 30 percent. We came within one vote of succeeding and our fight sent a strong message about the political r[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carears’
Where Does This Leave UW biz school??????????
According to a forthcoming paper written by Northwestern assistant professor Lauren Rivera, recruiters at top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks are interested only in students who attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and the Wharton School Business at the University of Penns[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 3:56 pm § in Politics
What America COMPETES Act Means to the UW
This is a response to the question how the LameDuck passage of the America Competes act will affect the UW. from Jonathan Nurse, Assistant Director, Office of Federal Relations, UW America COMPETES Act Reauthorization The recently signed American COMPETES Act reauthorization allows for increases to [...]
January 6th, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Misc.
Will Biotech Mean Jobs in Seattle?
Biotech is a major part of the hoped-for-future of Seattle. Is the promise real? Will there be jobs? No one knows more about this then Luke Timmerman, the Seattle based national biotech reporter for Xconomy, a news agency devoted to high technology. Like will talk at 9 AM, Tuesday the 18th o[...]
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.[...]
January 5th, 2011 - 5:53 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Goldy’s rant was right, Princeton is a bargain!
I recommend this Kiplinger survey! Goldy’s editorial on tution at private bvs. public schools was called a “rant” by the editor at the AAUP listserv. She was wrong. According to Kiplinger, Princeton is the best bargain among hugh prestige American universities: in order of average [...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is U Penn Cheaper than UW?
David Goldstein’s latest post at HorseAss is a very disturbing comparison of true costs (after grants, loans, and so on) of attendance at his alma mater U. Penn. vs a typical public university. The point he makes is that the real cost of a student attending a private ivy, U. Penn, may not be a[...]
Francis Fukyama: How Reagan Destroyed Capitalism
Fukyama, Reagan’s ideological theorist and author of “The End of History,” is now writing that Reaganomics destroyed the balance between individual ambition and liberal democracy needed to make a free market work. In essence he says that the USA is no longer at the end of histo[...]
America Competes Act Passes!
House Clears America COMPETES Reauthorization By Juliana Gruenwald December 21, 2010 | 6:44 PM The House cleared legislation Tuesday that would reauthorize the America COMPETES Act, which authorizes basic research, programs aimed at boosting science, technology, engineering and math education and ot[...]
January 3rd, 2011 - 11:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
Study in Florida: Community College Degrees Pay Better!
BY MICHAEL VASQUEZ [email protected] When it comes to higher education, more may not always be better — at least when it comes to starting salaries for graduates. State employment data that track the earnings of recent graduates show those who earned a career-focused associate’s [...]