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Posts Tagged ‘Colleges’
October 4th, 2012 - 8:33 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Student Confronts Republican on Cuts to Pell Grants
How to Fund a Major University
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[...]
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[...]
SCIENCE: SCIENTIFIC ERROR
A year-old Palo Alto, California, company, Science Exchange*, announced on Tuesday its “Reproducibility Initiative,” aimed at improving the trustworthiness of published papers. Scientists who want to validate their findings will be able to apply to the initiative, which will choose a lab[...]
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[...]
July 11th, 2012 - 8:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Leroy Searle: The conviction that universities should do so is as time-honored and legitimate as the conviction that we should teach students to think, to read, and to write. But the way we are doing it now surely is not sustainable.
This is a very thoughtful post by Leroy Searle. Dr. Searle was responding to a long stream of UW emails about a 5% pay raise the faculty union at Western Washington had negotiated with their administration. Most of thread was woven out of the usual angst about why UW faculty does d not ha[...]
July 2nd, 2012 - 10:34 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Do the Dems Understand HIGHER Ed is not LOTS OF Ed?
Candidate Answers 36th Legislative District Gael Tarleton by Carl, at HorsesAss Carl’s questions in bold, Gael Tarlton’s answers are below. 1) The state’s paramount duty is education. Do you feel the state is living up to that duty? If not, what needs to happen to live up to it? We are n[...]
I am voting against Rob McKenna Because I Support His Education Agenda
I had expected to vote for Rob McKenna. I had two reasons: 1. I was very impressed by McKenna’s stand on eduction. He has adopted the Obama agenda … tough teacher evaluations, replacing union work rules for teachers with professional standards, charter schools, and a commitmen[...]