Updated from original post on 25 Feb 2011 : As we struggle with the soaring demand for higher ed, how will we meet it if we fire faculty? Last month’s news release about the fall in sales by the Univ. Of Phoenix needs to be paired with the severe cuts being made in faculty in […][...]
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UPDATE: Why WGU pay puts WGU’s Mendenhall near the top of presidents of elite private universitiies
I found an article in the Deseret News from 2008/ The article notes that President Mendenhall’s salary far exceeds those of other college presidents in Utah. UPDATE, originally posted on Mar 30, 2011 William A. Sederburg, Utah’s commissioner of higher education, told the Deseret News t[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 10:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Online Educators Wary of U.S. Rule on ‘State Authorization’ of Programs
from Inside Higher Ed.Colleges that offer online programs to students in multiple states have been told that if they do not show a “good faith” effort to comply with various state rules governing higher ed by the beginning of July, they could lose their eligibility for federal student ai[...]
China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]
March 28th, 2011 - 8:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Strange Endorsements of WGU
In a search for sites that might have comments on WGU by students, I found “Universiry” an online site that purports to be Official site with links to, and information about, the departments, faculties, colleges, people, and organizations that make up (different) Universit(ies).”[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 3:39 pm § in Uncategorized
“You are so wrong!!” More on HB1822 and Western Governors
Here is Rep. Phyllis Kenney’s response to my email asking questions about HB1822 “You are so wrong!!” That may be, but I still can not get answers to my questions from her or from any other source that supports Western Governors University. a. What is WGU’s real graduation ra[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 6:28 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
WGU’s model for “online education.” There IS a better way.
Ed. The discussion the last couple of days here has referred to “online education” as if that were some sort of magic. BroadWebcast a lecture, add some mulitple choice questions and … you are ONLINE! This sort of computer based learning is just a sad extension of the overlo0asded 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 [...]
Keeping WA State Kids Out of Medical School!
Cutbacks in state funding of public universities are leading faculty and administration to one form or another of privatization. What does this mean for kids in any state that now has a prestigious, world class public school? What does it mean for Washington State? A good way to find out is to com[...]