There is a lot of fantasy going on about ways of cutting costs at public universities while somehow compensating with scholarships or creating private endowments for public schools. AINT gonna happen! Here in Washington state, the state part of the cost of higher ed is already down to 30% … [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
January 20th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
What would happen if Apple stopped creating new products?
Seattle Times: Live chat about higher education in Wash. state
Seattle Times higher education reporter Katherine Long will answer your questions at 1 p.m. on Thursday about how higher education is funded in Washington, what cuts have been made to date due to the budget shortfall, and what the impacts have been to the state’s colleges and universities. Sub[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WA State Colleges Go Online!
With a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is developing low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. The first 43 courses, which are as varied as “General [...]
Carlyle: Merge State Colleges into a UW/WSU System?
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (edited from his blog) ….. Recently I find myself looking at the large scale structural issue in higher education with a recognition and acknowledgement that despite my private protests governance does matter. But I don’t mean governance in the Olympia sense of whether to[...]
January 8th, 2011 - 6:40 pm § in Misc.
For Profit Universities: a view from Harvard’s Crimson
Crimson Editorial Staff The evidence against for-profit colleges has been piling up for months, and it is disheartening that all the federal government has offered in response is pontification and paper. The schools have seen a surge in popularity, and the General Accounting Office estimates their e[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 8:56 am § in Politics
What do you do when ?
A State Teeters on the Edge of Bankruptcy? Food is too Expensive to Buy? excerpts from CBS report Illinois’ personal income tax rate, now 3 percent, would climb to 5.25 percent for four years under the plan Cullerton outlined. After that, it would drop to 3.75 percent….. Democrats say they h[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 3:56 pm § in Politics
What America COMPETES Act Means to the UW
This is a response to the question how the LameDuck passage of the America Competes act will affect the UW. from Jonathan Nurse, Assistant Director, Office of Federal Relations, UW America COMPETES Act Reauthorization The recently signed American COMPETES Act reauthorization allows for increases to [...]
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 [...]
January 6th, 2011 - 11:59 am § in Uncategorized
Harvard President: Future of Harvard
An In-Depth Interview With Drew Faust, President of Harvard University Huffington Post.[...]