Starting after the Civil War, step by step America created a university system, including private and public colleges, that offered unheard of opportunities for an upwardly mobile America. The words are still thrilling .. GI Bill, Land Grant Universities, Pell Grants, National Merit Awards[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
April 11th, 2011 - 10:50 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Assault on Education Continues; New Bills Referred to Committee
Two new bills were introduced this week that would dramatically change standard practices in higher education in Washington State. HB 2049 (Zeiger R-25) establishes a new higher education performance advisory council to make recommendations on changes in higher education governance to the HECB/SBC[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 10:03 am § in Uncategorized
A UW Prof: Who SHOULD Be A: UW Student?
UW Admissions and the Budget Cuts from Cliff Mass and UW AAUP listserv After the Seattle Times published a front page article: Why Straight-A Students Won’t Get into the UW this Year there has been a firestorm of comments in the media and blogosphere–and I have gotten quite a few emails [...]
April 10th, 2011 - 11:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
Defunding public education means Washingtons’ kids GET lost.
Ed. I aplogize for the pun, but someone needs to kick our representatives in the ass .. their ass and not the horse’s ass. Russia is ahead of us. With the fall of the evil communists, the evil capitalists have gone a long way to flush Russia’s once great education system down the dra[...]
April 10th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Online Schools will be regulated by the Department of Education
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed on Saturday that the final deal will not include the rider that would have prevented the Obama administration from cracking down on the online school industry. based on news Huffington Post, with additions by Ed: A bipartisan group of H[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 9:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UPDATE ON WGU: The Miracle of WGU Indiana!
Ed. I just heard that WGUI is accessible under Indiana’s FOIA! Anyone who has ideas about this is welcome to send them to me. This is the new website for what Mitch Daniels, the Republican Governor refers to as Indiana’s “eighth state university.” The miracle of WGUI is t[...]
April 7th, 2011 - 9:15 am § in Schools & Colleges
Of the 50 highest compensated faculty members, only five appeared to be in the black and earning their keep. The rest were crimson.
Ed. This story is important for two reasons. First, Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, is also a former President of Texas A&M and rumored to be a candidate for the job of UW President. Second, in my experience, salaries at universities are low if we compare them with comparable salaries [...]
April 6th, 2011 - 3:10 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UFWS: Credits to Rep Ross Hunter for doing his best.
(Washington is one of the) “dumb, dumber, dumbest” states, for having recorded our poorest rates of investment in higher education over the last two fiscal years. In FY 2010, we spent $5.48 per $1000 of personal income in this state on higher education. That’s 63.7% below our peak of $15.5[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 7:28 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: Bad Investment: Enrollment Plummets at University of Phoenix, Implications for Washington’s Layoff of Higher Ed faculty
Updated from original post on 25 Feb 2011 : As we struggle with the soaring demand for higher ed, how will we meet it if we fire faculty? Last month’s news release about the fall in sales by the Univ. Of Phoenix needs to be paired with the severe cuts being made in faculty in […][...]
Comparing the New America to Haiti
“Watching our country dismantle its educational systems in the name of cost savings is akin to a family drowning its children to save on the grocery bill.” Dear Colleagues, In my work in Global Health over the past few years, I have had opportunity to travel to many health facilities and[...]