” “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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘governance’
November 21st, 2011 - 11:46 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UW Bothell Prof Predicts Privitization of Universities
November 7th, 2011 - 8:25 am § in America
BERKELEY BLOG: Lessons for the Occupation from the Tea Baggers
What the Occupy movement can learn from the Tea Party Lawrence Rosenthal, executive director, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements | 11/3/11 | It’s important to look at the Occupy Movement in the context of the Tea Party movement.Both were utterly unexpected and both were game-[...]
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�[...]
October 30th, 2011 - 11:51 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Aprikyan Case
UPDATE: Andrew Aprikyan’s fight with the UW will continue. As we have reported extensively on The AVE, Andrew has repeatedly asserted that he is innocent. He states that “is work has been corroborated by investigators elsewhere ans arose because of a disgruntled collaborator here ta[...]
October 21st, 2011 - 11:14 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Goldman Sachs on The US Education System
from Jerusalem Post (excerpts) Abby Joseph Cohen, former Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs and now President of their Global Market Institute : “The most important challenge confronting the US economy is the education we provide our workers”. To be sure, Cohen cites the fed[...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
October 8th, 2011 - 6:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
Corporate Inflation on Campus
To the student or legislator paying tuition, or the taxpayer funding NIH, it does not matter whether administrators are using their money to pay themselves or increase their staffs,;the difference is a distinction with no meaning. The focus of the public discussiion is always the same … [...]
October 5th, 2011 - 10:14 am § in America
A Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic
NATIONAL CALL FOR UNITED ACTION “An undisclosed number of American Veterans and former service members have come together to prepare and present this Call-to-Action on behalf of the U.S. Constitution, the Republic, the Rule of Law and equal justice for all freedom loving citizens of the United[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]