These people outsource experiments! Now way for universities to make $ BUT the conflicts with NIH funding of resources raise a lot of issues! There are also likely issues of faculty use of their offices orother university facilities![...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
September 10th, 2012 - 9:56 am § in America
I am voting against Rob McKenna Because I Support His Education Agenda
I had expected to vote for Rob McKenna. I had two reasons: 1. I was very impressed by McKenna’s stand on eduction. He has adopted the Obama agenda … tough teacher evaluations, replacing union work rules for teachers with professional standards, charter schools, and a commitmen[...]
August 27th, 2012 - 8:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Election 2012 .. The Republican union issues come to the campus!
Calif RAs to Get Union Rights? By Bob Grant The California legislature takes steps to broaden the ability of graduate students to unionize by extending collective bargaining rights to research assistants.[...]
McKenna’s Education Proposal … Magical Budgeting.
My biggest disappointment is that McKenna has acted more like a promise laden Democrat than like a business promoting Republican. I am disappointed. I had considered voting for McKenna despite the Tea Part albatross he carries. people I trust had told me that McKenna, a UW graduate, had a sincer[...]
July 11th, 2012 - 8:43 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Leroy Searle: The conviction that universities should do so is as time-honored and legitimate as the conviction that we should teach students to think, to read, and to write. But the way we are doing it now surely is not sustainable.
This is a very thoughtful post by Leroy Searle. Dr. Searle was responding to a long stream of UW emails about a 5% pay raise the faculty union at Western Washington had negotiated with their administration. Most of thread was woven out of the usual angst about why UW faculty does d not ha[...]
July 2nd, 2012 - 10:34 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Do the Dems Understand HIGHER Ed is not LOTS OF Ed?
Candidate Answers 36th Legislative District Gael Tarleton by Carl, at HorsesAss Carl’s questions in bold, Gael Tarlton’s answers are below. 1) The state’s paramount duty is education. Do you feel the state is living up to that duty? If not, what needs to happen to live up to it? We are n[...]
June 27th, 2012 - 12:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Leading UW Regent Donates $$ to McKenna
Jeff Brotman, Democratic power donor, donates $5,000 to Rob McKenna, Seattle Times Jeff Brotman is well known as a UW regent, founder of Costco, and avid financial supporter of the UW. He has hosted Mr. Obama but now is also donating to Rob McKenna, the Republican candidate for governor. This is ver[...]
June 13th, 2012 - 11:06 pm § in Politics
Inslee and McKenna take very different positions on higher education
After experiencing THE GRIM, ANTI-ACADEMIC ATMOSPHERE OF THE STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, I am becoming utterly confused by the governor’s race. I am very troubled and want to ask myself what Thomas Jefferson would do? Is this another choice between centrist conservatives .. like Washingto[...]
May 10th, 2012 - 1:47 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is the “Yale” name for Sale?
What’s in a Name? For Yale in Singapore, a Whole Lot Courtesy of Yale U. The Chronicle of Higher Education reportsa fight between memebers of the Yale faculty and the administration over who owns the “Yale ” brand name. After the World Economic Forum in Davos, in January 2009, Ri[...]
Ryanomics: Support for Science
The Scientist reports that Paul Ryan supports federal finding for basic research, except when science conflicts with ideology ….. The good news is that Paul Ryan states that he supports increasing funding for basic science. In 2000, Representative Ryan opined that biomedical research was a[...]