Two new bills were introduced this week that would dramatically change standard practices in higher education in Washington State. HB 2049 (Zeiger R-25) establishes a new higher education performance advisory council to make recommendations on changes in higher education governance to the HECB/SBC[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faculty’
April 11th, 2011 - 10:50 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Assault on Education Continues; New Bills Referred to Committee
The WGU Model II. Is the WGU model a “free lunch” for students?
Continued from Part I. In that post I recommended that the UW now must choose to become a private university in the State of Washington. This need not be. The UW is a resource, a financial resource of immense value to Washington. The Senate vote means a switch of resources from a state ma[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 10:03 am § in Uncategorized
A UW Prof: Who SHOULD Be A: UW Student?
UW Admissions and the Budget Cuts from Cliff Mass and UW AAUP listserv After the Seattle Times published a front page article: Why Straight-A Students Won’t Get into the UW this Year there has been a firestorm of comments in the media and blogosphere–and I have gotten quite a few emails [...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW Faculty Announce Effort to Create a Union.
from AAUP listserv: Working Towards a Union for the UW faculty by Raya Fidel, Professor, Information School The quality of faculty work life at the UW has deteriorated during the last decade. Throughout the years the Faculty Senate has worked diligently to represent the faculty and it needs[...]
Could the UW become WGU?
We already have a model that shows us what will happen as we privatize the UW and its sister elite public schools …. That model is the Seattle Public Schools. With the best of intentions, the progressive community has created a school system perceived by our city’s liberal and literate c[...]
OHIO: How to Eliminate Higher Education
Ed. This is hilarious. Among other ideas, Gov. Kasich wants students to graduate from college in three years. Combine that with the Washington state pattern of shifting the first two years out of Universities to the community colleges, and we can pump out BAs and BSs in ONE YEAR! Didn’t GM [...]
To succeed, US must continue to invest in education, research
“America’s current circumstances are certainly serious. But there is a proven path forward, one that the United States has traveled with great success before: the rising path of innovation. After the Civil War and World War II, in particular, America restored its economic momentum with great[...]
UW Students and Faculty at Town Hall
As promised, this Saturday I attended the 43 rd District Townhall along with Senator Ed Murry, House Speaker Frank Chopp, and Rep. Jamie Pedersen. AND .. a lot of people! AND … a big show by UW students and faculty, led by Prof. of Astronomy Bruce Balick and students from BARK. The pre[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 4:26 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
UW Blogger Bites Seattle Times, is this news?
UPDATE: see news at TPM. Over at HorsesAss, Darryl has criticized the quality of journalism at the Seattle Times. This would be a “man bites dog story,” if it were not that the Times has descended into the fish wrapper class of AP wire reflection. The more important ssues here are [...]
March 10th, 2011 - 11:38 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Lyman Bradley … why the courage of a faculty is essential to academic freedom.
In the 50’s, before being targeted by the House Unamerican Affairs Committee, Professor Lyman Bradley was chair of Germanic Studies at NYU and a major scholar in German literature. After losing his job and being sentenced to prison, when Lyman R. Bradley applied for a passport in 1961, [...]