Ed. Washington citizens need a reality check. As we discuss budgets, online education and privatization, the legislature needs to understand that the value of the UW goes far beyond the need Washington shares with all others states to send our kids to college. Not only is the UW ranked 7 among[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Foreign Universities’
March 10th, 2011 - 10:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Reality Check: UW rank: # 7 among US public universities, # 26 world wide.
March 5th, 2011 - 4:11 am § in Uncategorized
Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera ‘Real News,’ U.S. losing “information war”
Despite an embargo by the corporate cable systems, as Secretary Clinton noted, “Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news, like it or hate it, it is really effective.” Clinton speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.[...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 8:59 pm § in America
PETITION: Getting Glenn Beck of the air!
Links on the Ave From The Hill From Blatherwatch From Firedoglake Glenn Beck’s Focus on CUNY Professor Brings Her Death Threats The other side. [...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
What China Can Teach Us About Evaluating Universities
from AAUP listserv I have no qualms with getting public universities to focus on graduation rates of students and employment rates of graduates, though I would agree with many colleagues that such a focus slants towards a narrow perspective of public universities’ missions. One real difficulty (an[...]
March 1st, 2011 - 7:12 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Declines in Higher Education in US and Britain vs. Rest of World
University students are having to meet more of the cost of their higher education in countries with existing mass higher education systems and “aging demographics” – and the trend towards reduced public spending on universities looks set to continue. A new report, released today, s[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 9:43 am § in Uncategorized
Can the US export free speech when it creates branch campuses in repressive societies?
As an admirer of Korean society I find this exciting. Korea is creating a campus for multiple universities at Inchon. The idea is to offer something like an industrial park with shared facilities to schools wishing to have a presence in South Korea. These schools will work with Korean Universiti[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 1:17 pm § in Uncategorized
Faculty Chaos, UK Style.
The battle for control of Britain’s faculty union, the University and College Union, is under way, as a powerful leftist group plans a leadership challenge following a split over support for student protests. The turmoil within the organization, which represents about 120,000 higher education [...]
UW Senate: Future of The University of Washington
Bruce Balick is the former Chair of the Faculty Senate and currently Chairs the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting What follows is his committee’s recommendations to Provost Lidstrrom for how we should manage the budget crisis. I am struck by this document’s lack of priorities.[...]
January 5th, 2011 - 3:33 pm § in UW
Kiplingers ranks UW in the top 10 “Best-Value Public Colleges
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/best-values-in-public-colleges-2011.html[...]
Deeep Cuts! .. Havana Style
(Reuters) – Cuba’s government, trying to save money and wean its citizens from subsidies, said on Wednesday it will remove soap, toothpaste and detergent from the monthly ration of food and consumer products it has handed out since the early days of the Cuban revolution. Priorities diffe[...]