A closer look at UC’s “tuition-free golden past” and who’s financially hurting today by Bob Jacobsen, professor of physics |Berkeley Blog Tom Hayden recently wrote an article, entitled “We Can’t Afford to Be Quiet About the Rising Cost of College,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘governance’
IRB Extremism
Institutional Review Boards Overstepping Their Roles … from Gwendolyn Bradley The AAUP recently submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to proposed new rule making on institutional review boards, the campus bodies that oversee research on human subjects[...]
Are American Universities the Quislings of China?
As more American universities open campuses in China, they’re bending to the country’s censorship rules. Isaac Stone Fish reports from Beijing. (excerpted and adapted) UC Berkeley announced on Nov. 11 that it plans to open a campus in Shanghai. Stanford Center will open in P[...]
China: “Civilized” Captors Loosen Their Grip
Central Guidance Committee names Linyi the “Most Civilized” prefecture-level city in China, may even ease up on Chen Guamgchemg , a most civilized dissident in Shandong. Sources close to the family of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been under house arrest at his home in Lin[...]
December 1st, 2011 - 11:09 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Penn State: Where there is smoke, shouldn’t you look for fire?
Joe Paterno Advocated Special Treatment For Penn State Football Players: Report By SEANNA ADCOX 11/22/11 Huffington Post and AP, excerpts Asked …whether disciplinary cases at Penn State (other than the Sandusky affair)would be reviewed, an NCAA spokeswoman said she had nothing else to say a[...]
November 30th, 2011 - 12:34 pm § in Misc.
Breaking News: Most Purple Thumbs in Egypt Will Come From The Muslim Brotherhood
Joshua Hirsch of the Huffington Post Reports (excerpted): ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — …. as preliminary results and rough polling data emerged Wednesday, it became increasingly clear that the country’s conservative Islamist parties are likely to fare even better than anticipated — [...]
November 29th, 2011 - 12:25 pm § in Schools & Colleges
The Faculty Code at “For Profits”
Five Six Troubling Things About the For-Profit Industry’s Self-Policing Standards Campus Progress, November 21, 2011 by Brian Stewart Kaplan is one of 16 for-profit schools that have signed the Foundation for Educational Success’ Standards of Responsible Conduct. For-profit c[...]
November 28th, 2011 - 5:56 am § in Misc.
REPUBLICANS OUTMANEUVERED?
It is beginning to look as if Obama has been taking lessons from Muhamed Ali! Remember “rope a dope?” Ezra Klein at the WASHINGTON POST makes an amazing point … if the Democrats simply accept the triggers resulting from last weeks Super Committee crash, the result is a deficit[...]
November 27th, 2011 - 2:53 pm § in UW
Berkeley Blog: Are Faculty Joining the 99% Movement?
There’s something happening here… “I plan to be at the meeting tomorrow, one of the very few Academic Senate meetings I will have attended in my 17+ years as a faculty member here. I am not proud of not attending Senate meetings. I have good reasons why I often could not: they tend (like t[...]
Redistricting Screws Black Folks in Seattle
Our leaders have used a soupcon of melanin to flavor a soup made of grits, dashi, menudo and matzoh balls. The redrawn 9th Congressional District is “only” 49.67% non-Hispanic white. However, it already has a well-entrenched incumbent in Adam Smith. And, as I noted yesterday, the voters of the[...]