Ed. This story is important for two reasons. First, Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, is also a former President of Texas A&M and rumored to be a candidate for the job of UW President. Second, in my experience, salaries at universities are low if we compare them with comparable salaries [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colleges’
April 6th, 2011 - 10:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Kristoff: on faculty unions.
Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Teaching is unusual among the professions in that it pays poorly but has strong union protections and lockstep wage increases. It’s a factory model of compensation, and critics are right to fault it. But the bottom line is that we should pay teachers more, not less �[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 7:28 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: Bad Investment: Enrollment Plummets at University of Phoenix, Implications for Washington’s Layoff of Higher Ed faculty
Updated from original post on 25 Feb 2011 : As we struggle with the soaring demand for higher ed, how will we meet it if we fire faculty? Last month’s news release about the fall in sales by the Univ. Of Phoenix needs to be paired with the severe cuts being made in faculty in […][...]
UPDATE: Why WGU pay puts WGU’s Mendenhall near the top of presidents of elite private universitiies
I found an article in the Deseret News from 2008/ The article notes that President Mendenhall’s salary far exceeds those of other college presidents in Utah. UPDATE, originally posted on Mar 30, 2011 William A. Sederburg, Utah’s commissioner of higher education, told the Deseret News t[...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
As the UW becomes an Ivy. will WA kids be turned away?
from Katherine Long at the Seattle Times: Why straight-A’s may not get you into UW this year In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fal[...]
April 2nd, 2011 - 6:50 am § in Schools & Colleges
Free Speech Attacks from The Radical Right
Ed. While the progressive world has been distracted by the absurdist attacks on President Obama’s birth certificate, there is a far more serious and relentless attack on academic free speech itself. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Judy Ancel, a professor of labor studies at the University of Missou[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:45 pm § in Uncategorized
Michigan Cracks Down On College Students Using Food Stamps
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March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]
March 30th, 2011 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
NADER ,,Taming the Beast!
WASHINGTON — Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is calling for the elimination of college athletic scholarships, saying the move is necessary to “de-professionalize” college athletes. “As we near the exciting conclusion of `March Madness’ – which would more accurately be descr[...]
March 29th, 2011 - 1:03 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges
By JACQUES STEINBERG, excerpted from NY Times Dozens of American colleges and universities are seeing a surge in applications (and similar brochures) from students in China, where a booming economy means that more families can pursue the dream of an American higher education. read more. By Karin Fis[...]