Excerpts from post by Jon Evans on Tech Crunch. There is something odd going on. While millions of long-term unemployed fight desperately to tread water, technology’s handmaidens — software engineers — are minting money like bailed-out bankers. The New York Times chimes in: “technology is qu[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colleges’
Accreditation of Online “Universities” a hot potato
Based on a a truly frightening article The Chronicle of Higher Education WGU may want to worry about its accreditation. Congress has gotten involved in accrediting online colleges. The motivation in Congress is that “for-profit” companies rake in federal financial aid withou[...]
Why We Should Have a Free Market in Education
from Sound Politics by pudge, Maybe Obama Needs to Go Back to School Our entire nation depends, for our economic future, on an industry that gets hundreds of billions of dollars in direct subsidies from the federal government each year. This year, President Obama’s administration is increasi[...]
November 2nd, 2011 - 11:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Washington State May Need to Close Campuses and “Fire” Sudents Who Now Work For their Tuition!
From: President Bruce Shepard, WWU Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:06 PM Subject: Regarding Governor Gregoire`s Preliminary Supplemental Budget Proposal Colleagues: The Governor’s preliminary proposal to cut at least 15% and up to 20% from the state’s higher education budget�[...]
Governor proposes increasing cuts to UW to 2/3 of total state support! What’s left?
Oct. 27, 2011 Statement from UW President Michael K. Young regarding the governor’s proposed supplemental budget reductions As anticipated, the budget cuts released by the governor today have grave implications for the state of Washington and its citizens. The “Gr[...]
Will Congress Cut Salaries For UW School of Medicine Faculty?
The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
The Foundering Fathers vs Public Education
Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.” Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their founderi[...]
October 21st, 2011 - 11:14 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Goldman Sachs on The US Education System
from Jerusalem Post (excerpts) Abby Joseph Cohen, former Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs and now President of their Global Market Institute : “The most important challenge confronting the US economy is the education we provide our workers”. To be sure, Cohen cites the fed[...]
October 15th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Passes Mexico in Making University Education a Privilige of the Wealthy
From Seattle Education via Amy Hagopian: Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities A partial transcript from Noam Chomsky’s talk, taken from AlterNet: A couple of months ago, I went to Mexico to give talks at the National University in Mexico, UNAM. It’s q[...]
October 13th, 2011 - 9:57 am § in Schools & Colleges
The Business of College Atheletics: Madoff Comes to College Sports
Former Kentucky and current Texas Tech coach Billy Gillispie allegedly had an investment valued at $2.3 million excerpts from Sports Illustrated: More than a dozen current and former college coaches — including Texas Tech’s Billy Gillispie, Arizona’s Lute Olson, Baylor’s Scot[...]