Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
March 10th, 2011 - 6:17 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Disenfranchisement of Student Voters
Conservative Corporate Advocacy Group ALEC Behind Voter Disenfranchisement Efforts The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative organization linked to corporate and right-wing donors, including the billionaire Koch brothers, has drafted and distributed model legislation, obtained[...]
March 9th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
Does Inclusiveness Lower Academic Standards?
Editorial By The Daily Orange Editorial Board, Syracuse University Published: Monday, February 21, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 02:02 CORRECTION: In this editorial, the change in the percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students is misstated. In 2009, 26.5 percent of students were Pell Gran[...]
Michael Moore Tells it Like it Is: Madison, WI
MADISON, March 6: In a masterful bit of plain speaking, Michael Moore parsed what is wrong with the two parallel and unequal American economies, speaking before before an estimated 50,000 protestors gathered at the Madison State Capitol Sunday. Link to full-speech video, plus complete transcript.[...]
Is MIT Moral in Accepting Largesse from David Koch?
from Fire Dog Lake: NYT Gives Us David Koch, Public Benefactor By: Scarecrow Monday January 10, 2011 8:58 am Promoted on: Saturday March 5, 2011 10:33 am John D. Rockefeller The New York Times’ Michael Cooper gives us a fawning tribute to billionaire David Koch, he of the infamous Koch Brothers an[...]
March 6th, 2011 - 9:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Solve budget crisis = online ed, drop tuition “discounts,” end tenure.
Ed. As the UW Presidential Search continues with little apparent faculty input, this survey of sitting presidents is very disturbing. The bottom line is that these CEOs seem to have no interest in academic quality, whether that means addressing the increasing issue of remedial classwork or the nee[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 11:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Seattle Meeting, Support for Higher Ed. Monday Evening, Cleveland High
Keeping the Promise for Higher Education – a Community Conversation Monday, March 7, 2011 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Cleveland High School to make your voice heard. Leading this conversation: KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa Brad Smith, Microsoft Ed Taylor, Un[...]
March 4th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UC Berkeley protests
BERKELEY, Calif. (story from AP)— Baton-wielding riot police at the University of California, Berkeley faced off Thursday evening with a growing number of demonstrators angry over state education cuts. Eight protesters occupied the fourth-floor outside ledge of the university’s Wheeler Hall,[...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 4:29 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Who Elected Bill Gates?
Gary Stager Teacher educator, education journalist, speaker, school reformer, university professor Posted AT HUFF POST : March 1, 2011 02:17 PM It’s sad to watch a once smart and talented man go mad right before our eyes. There needs to be an intervention for Bill Gates. I fear that he has tak[...]