Congress Would Raise NIH Spending and Maintain Maximum Pell Grant, but at a Cost By Kelly Field Washington Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a spending bill for the remainder of the current fiscal year that would increase funds for the National Institutes of Health by 1 per[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Fisk University: To sell its birthright or just go broke?
From Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition. But it is unclear how quickly the historically black university in Nashville will be able [...]
November 21st, 2011 - 11:46 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UW Bothell Prof Predicts Privitization of Universities
” “from each according to his or her abilities, to each according to his or her needs” is not a bad motto for public higher education.” “ (from AAUP Magazine, Academe) By Bruce Burgett (redacted and edited) In spring 2010, a group of University of Washington administrators [...]
November 14th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Good News for Harvard
Harvard Raises $639M Despite Tough Economy 1 By Tara W. Merrigan and Zoe A. Y. Weinberg Despite a shaky economy, Harvard raised a record setting $639 million during the 2011 fiscal year, the third-largest amount ever accrued in the University’s history.[...]
November 2nd, 2011 - 11:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Washington State May Need to Close Campuses and “Fire” Sudents Who Now Work For their Tuition!
From: President Bruce Shepard, WWU Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:06 PM Subject: Regarding Governor Gregoire`s Preliminary Supplemental Budget Proposal Colleagues: The Governor’s preliminary proposal to cut at least 15% and up to 20% from the state’s higher education budget�[...]
Governor proposes increasing cuts to UW to 2/3 of total state support! What’s left?
Oct. 27, 2011 Statement from UW President Michael K. Young regarding the governor’s proposed supplemental budget reductions As anticipated, the budget cuts released by the governor today have grave implications for the state of Washington and its citizens. The “Gr[...]
Will Congress Cut Salaries For UW School of Medicine Faculty?
The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
The Foundering Fathers vs Public Education
Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.” Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their founderi[...]
October 10th, 2011 - 12:53 pm § in Schools & Colleges
from the Berkeley Blog: A Different Funding Model
from the Berkeley Blog An alternative funding model to support higher ed excellence Andrew Szeri, professor of mechanical engineering | 3/30/10 | 4 comments | Leave a comment Cuts in state support and the subsequent increases in fees are leading many students to take out loans. This is very regretta[...]
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]