Florida Governor Rick Scott Takes Aim at Tenure Lisa Roney from Academe Blog I am a tenured associate professor at one of the largest (though, let me emphasize, not one of the highest ranked) public universities in the U.S. How can I explain why it is that this often makes me want to cry? Don’t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colleges’
October 12th, 2011 - 2:33 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Can the US supply learning to India?
INDIA: Higher education summit with US reveals gaps Alya Mishra The first India-US higher education summit, between India’s Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, was aimed at strengthening collaboration between the two countries. It provide[...]
October 11th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
BREAKING NEWS: The Reprican Luddite Agenda
Governor Says Florida Has Enough Anthropologists, Calls for Spending on Job-Producing Fields Gov. Rick Scott of Florida is laying out an aenda that seemingly is widely shared among the Reprobate Republicans .. the Repricans. “You know, we don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the stat[...]
What Happened to the Ability to Read?
And writing is worse![...]
October 8th, 2011 - 6:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
Corporate Inflation on Campus
To the student or legislator paying tuition, or the taxpayer funding NIH, it does not matter whether administrators are using their money to pay themselves or increase their staffs,;the difference is a distinction with no meaning. The focus of the public discussiion is always the same … [...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
September 30th, 2011 - 9:52 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
NIH may get 3% at the cost of cuts to Pell grants
Inside Higher Education For those here who are not obsessed with the NIH budget, the usual process has been for the President to lowball and then lobbyists and Congress raise the budget. This year things are a LOT different. The Senate is proposing an increase of less than 1% with dictates on spen[...]
What Human Origins Mean to Berkeley
Ardipithecus and the research university Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and evolutionary biology | 10/10/09 | excerpted from the Berkeley Blog Ardipithecusis the focus of a lot of media attention at the moment. New research discoveries made by the Berkeley faculty seem to make the news co[...]
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, II. Class vs. Color.
ctd from yesterday (NOTE: I really am enjoying this essay and will post my own thoughts tomorrow). I want try and share some of my views on the issues of students of color in academe. First, race masks class. When you look at the demographics, students of color generally come from less eco[...]
September 18th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Work Study:Free Tuition in Kentucky College
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