Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor UC WHY BERKELEY FACULTY WENT ON STRIKE University professors (unless they have a large research grant) have no secretaries to prepare their manuscripts for publication or the hundreds of letters of recommendation, the purgatorial price professors pay for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faculty’
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
NIH budget maintained at the price of loss of student tuition support.
Congress Would Raise NIH Spending and Maintain Maximum Pell Grant, but at a Cost By Kelly Field Washington Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year that would increase funds for the National Institutes of Health by 1 per[...]
Cambridge Univ. Press.: Pay to read articles just like renting movies!
By Jennifer Howard Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2011, read at permalink. Will researchers pay for short-term access to journal articles? Cambridge University Press is about to find out. The publisher has just announced a rental program for articles from the more than 280 peer-reviewed[...]
Fisk University: To sell its birthright or just go broke?
From Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition. But it is unclear how quickly the historically black university in Nashville will be able [...]
November 29th, 2011 - 12:25 pm § in Schools & Colleges
The Faculty Code at “For Profits”
Five Six Troubling Things About the For-Profit Industry’s Self-Policing Standards Campus Progress, November 21, 2011 by Brian Stewart Kaplan is one of 16 for-profit schools that have signed the Foundation for Educational Success’ Standards of Responsible Conduct. For-profit c[...]
November 14th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Good News for Harvard
Harvard Raises $639M Despite Tough Economy 1 By Tara W. Merrigan and Zoe A. Y. Weinberg Despite a shaky economy, Harvard raised a record setting $639 million during the 2011 fiscal year, the third-largest amount ever accrued in the University’s history.[...]
What If This Is The Future?
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[...]
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[...]
Our mismatch between the skills required for available jobs and individuals with those skills is growing faster than all but one other state, Delaware.
The Magic of “Computational Thinking” Training More Folks Who Can Get Jobs? In response to OPED at the Seattle Times. Rosemary McAuliffe, State Senator and Ed Lazowska , UW Prof. pof Computer Science Like evangelicals of the past, Senator . McAuliffe and Professor Lazowska, have a [...]
Where Were the UW Faculty?????
Friday night I went with about 1000 friends to hear speeches on our economy. The speakers were Maria Cantwell and Elizabeth Warren, probably the most outspoken leaders for reform of our management class excesses. Professor Warren was spectacular. For the first time I heard a major speaker suppor[...]