Unfortunately, opposition to real educational technology now comes from all sides. Union advocates are worried about losing faculty jobs. The politicians want to save bucks now, no matter what that costs later. :Luddites, lack Glen Beck, don’s care because they think learning is worthless [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
February 8th, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges
States Facing The Biggest Higher Ed Cutbacks In 2011
This may surprise you. WA State is NOT amongst the leaders in cut backs in higher ed. The worst? Look here. Old Mizzou comes out first! WA did not even make the worst 13! Where we rank in the cuts to state higher ed.[...]
February 5th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Uncategorized
House Republican Cuts Target the UW
The UW and the Hutch, together comprise one of the highest tiers of federally funded research. Their future may be grim. Where are WA State politicians on THIS issue? UPDATE: From the Chronicle of Higher Education By Paul Basken House Republicans, who gained a majority in the chamber in last Novem[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Deep Cuts at Arizona
Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed a $170 million cut to the universities for fiscal 2012, an amount that, if enacted, would amount to a 37 percent reduction in state support to the schools from the past thee years. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/02/20110202[...]
Privatizing the UW, one buck at a time.
Seattle Times: Rising tuition a threat to GET program The GET program commits Washington State to pay tuition at a state school in return for savings by the parents put into GET. In effect “we” have guaranteed parents that their investments will pay for their kids’ education.[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 5:01 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Disgruntled Students Start Petition to Close Kaplan U
All they wanted was an education. All they got was debt. More and more former students at Kaplan University – the lucrative chain of “for-profit” colleges owned by the Washington Post Company – are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and [...]
January 26th, 2011 - 10:12 pm § in UW
Tuition-Setting Authority: There’s Work to Do First
from Publicola By Rep. Marko Liias, In 2009, I proudly led the fight on the floor of the State House of Representatives against a proposal to increase tuition at our state colleges by nearly 30 percent. We came within one vote of succeeding and our fight sent a strong message about the political r[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 11:51 am § in Schools & Colleges
Rush Limbaugh Opposes the Academic 1%!
Limbaugh’s Class Warfare Vs. College Presidents By John K. Wilson Rush Limbaugh normally hates class warfare. So it was a bit unusual today when he came out and denounced millionaires. Of course, Limbaugh only hates one particular kind of millionaire: college presidents. Limbaugh declared, the bo[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 10:20 pm § in Uncategorized
Shrinking Toward Privitization
Bill Lyne at the United Faculty of Washington State has an important fact to cite: “(in ) the open letter that University of California President Mark Yudof sent to all Californians on Monday was enough to knock us right on our smug flannel Starbucks asses. “This is a sad day for California,[...]
January 21st, 2011 - 9:30 pm § in UW
When Schools Become Charities
Excerpted from Johann Neem at United Faculty of Washington According to … Governor (Gregoire)’s logic, …parents who no longer have kids in school, adults without children, and parents who can send their children to private schools do not have to share the burden. But if the benefits ar[...]