from Todd Finkelmeyer at the Cap Times UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin sent an e-mail Wednesday night to the UW System’s Board of Regents, and to other chancellors across the system, asking them not to oppose Wisconsin’s flagship university breaking away from the system. “There [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colleges’
February 12th, 2011 - 7:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW Has a Better Idea than Texas’ $10,000 College Degree!
AUSTIN (KXAN Erin Cargile) – During his state of the state address Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry said it is time for colleges and universities to lay out a low-cost path to a degree. “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds i[...]
February 9th, 2011 - 6:46 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WA Legislators Think Online=Free
Unfortunately, opposition to real educational technology now comes from all sides. Union advocates are worried about losing faculty jobs. The politicians want to save bucks now, no matter what that costs later. :Luddites, lack Glen Beck, don’s care because they think learning is worthless [...]
February 7th, 2011 - 1:14 am § in Schools & Colleges
Regents Shred Faculty Senate at RPI!
from Inside Higher Education, Feb 2, 2011 When the Faculty Senate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute voted, in spring 2006, to widen its membership to include contingent faculty, it set in motion a series of events that left the senate in a state of limbo and shredded the notion of shared governanc[...]
Should We Shrink Colleges And Admit Fewer Students?
I’m good at asking questions that I don’t know the answer to. Does this mean the four universities, two graduate schools, and three community colleges I attended did a good job of teaching me how to think? (Another question I don’t know the answer to!). I do know that colleges have[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Faculty Chaos, UK Style.
The battle for control of Britain’s faculty union, the University and College Union, is under way, as a powerful leftist group plans a leadership challenge following a split over support for student protests. The turmoil within the organization, which represents about 120,000 higher education [...]
January 6th, 2011 - 11:59 am § in Uncategorized
Harvard President: Future of Harvard
An In-Depth Interview With Drew Faust, President of Harvard University Huffington Post.[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 8:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
What is wrong with Scientific Publishing?
Can we put it right before it is too late? from Cambridge I sat down today to write code and and found that I couldn’t – I had to write about science publishing, so here goes. I intend this will be the first of several posts. I often blog in forceful style (rant?) but here […][...]
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[...]