from Katherine Long at the Seattle Times: Why straight-A’s may not get you into UW this year In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fal[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
April 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
As the UW becomes an Ivy. will WA kids be turned away?
China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:45 pm § in Uncategorized
Michigan Cracks Down On College Students Using Food Stamps
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March 30th, 2011 - 1:59 pm § in Politics
The Budget Issue, a Powerpoint Report from Sen. Murray
Ed Murray, D, 43rd, is the Chair of Washington State Senate Ways and Means Committee. Ed is a very, very analytical political thinker and certainly supportive of the UW. He has prepared a set of slides about the budget crisis that anyone from our community should review. I esp. call your attenti[...]
March 28th, 2011 - 8:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Strange Endorsements of WGU
In a search for sites that might have comments on WGU by students, I found “Universiry” an online site that purports to be Official site with links to, and information about, the departments, faculties, colleges, people, and organizations that make up (different) Universit(ies).”[...]
March 27th, 2011 - 11:47 am § in Schools & Colleges
WGU: Advertizing on the web.
One of the red flags that heighten my concerns about WGU is their extensive use of web advertising. Yesterday morning I was researching a Huff Post piece on a Vatican Effort to reach out to aetheists. To my surprise, one such link brought me to a website called “The Damned.” I assume tha[...]
March 25th, 2011 - 4:14 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Cutting ALL of Higher Ed would save 50% of the budget deficit in WA.
It’s hard to imagine the enormity of this challenge. Here are some numbers that put it into perspective: We could cut our entire public higher education system – all six of the four-year institutions and all 34 of the two-year community and technical colleges – and we’d solve just about 50% [...]
March 21st, 2011 - 1:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Follow up: Is the loss of faculty jobs justified by magical new technology?
Academic Salaries? Not so Golden! Earlier today, I posted on the $700,000 salary of the President of an online only, no faculty university called Western Governors University. How does President Mendenhall justify such a salary? His website suggests he can do this because he claims not to ne[...]
OHIO: How to Eliminate Higher Education
Ed. This is hilarious. Among other ideas, Gov. Kasich wants students to graduate from college in three years. Combine that with the Washington state pattern of shifting the first two years out of Universities to the community colleges, and we can pump out BAs and BSs in ONE YEAR! Didn’t GM [...]
March 19th, 2011 - 7:15 am § in Schools & Colleges
Does everyone need a college degree?
A new report, released by Harvard, states in some of the strongest terms that “college for all” emphasis may harm many American students – keeping them from having a smooth transition from adolescence to adulthood and a viable career. “The American system for preparing young people to lead p[...]