Business Experience As Academic Qualification? Oh, Really? Posted at Academe Blog by Michael DeCesare, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology & Criminology, and president of the AAUP Chapter, at Merrimack College. The president of the University of Toledo plans to a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘governance’
Ryanomics: Is Ryan a cousin of Ahmadinejad?
Did you watch the debate? Yesterday’s performance reminded me of this clip: from Piers Morgan’s interview with Ahmadinejad: “You are a father of three children,” Morgan said, as part of a “lively” debate on homosexuality. “You have two sons and a daughter. W[...]
Election 2012: The local scene
Joel Connelly at the PI has an insightful view of the disarray onf Washington State Democrats as we approach to 2012 primary. Where the Rs are built around the core of vested wealth, the D’s old core are the unions, especially the teachers’ unions. This establishment, represents the jo[...]
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[...]
June 25th, 2012 - 10:41 am § in Misc.
WWJD? Jefferson might cry at what is happening at the University of Virginia.
There is a huge mess at the University of Virginia. The President has been summarily fired by the Board of Visitors with no discussion with the UV faculty and no rational. I can take no side since I know too little, however the one thing that is clear is that the traditional mode of governance [&h[...]
June 21st, 2012 - 4:08 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Chaos at Jefferson’s University
Few Americans understand the significance of the University of Virginia to world history. U Va was Thomas Jefferson’s proudest creation, the world’s first PUBLIC university. Moreover, in the tradition of Jefferson, U Va was created as place where ordinary citizens could participate i[...]
June 10th, 2012 - 11:31 pm § in America
ROMNEYISMS: Even Scott Walker is Smarter than Mitt Romney
Scott Walker Disagrees With Mitt Romney On First Responders As ‘Big Government‘ Romney has dumped on the President because Obama has, rightly, said that local governments need money to emply fire men, cops, health workers and teachers. I wonder .. the Romney likely live in gated communit[...]
May 21st, 2012 - 10:58 am § in Schools & Colleges
How to Fire Professors
from Inside Higher Education: On July 19, 2009, Edward T. Larkin, a professor of German at the University of New Hampshire, drove his motorcycle down Route 101 to the Market Basket in Milford. He pulled into the parking lot behind a car in which a 17-year-old girl was driving her mother. Larkin park[...]
April 23rd, 2012 - 9:13 am § in Politics
Tea party a la France
Far right hits historic heights Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round? By Sarah LEDUC (from France 24) Having secured nearly one in[...]
ANDREW APRIKYAN CONVICTED BY THE NIH
I have written a lot on THE-Ave.US and n this listserv about Andrew Aprikyan. Andrew is a scientist who was accused of fraud by an anonymous UW faculty member. The case was muddied because of patent issues involving the UW and, I assume, his accuser. The UW conducted its investigation in a manne[...]