from Blog U By Barbara Fister April 12, 2011 9:30 pm EDT On our panel I questioned the fetish of citation correctness, Doug Downs and ZuZu Feder examined the double standard that we impose on students (are we so careful of whether we need a colon or a comma in that part of a citation? […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘humanities’
Why American Education Outclasses the World.
Recently I had the “fun” of being invited to evaluate the world’s elite universities. I had read these ratings before but had not thought much about the process. One thing I REALLY tried to do was to be fair when it came to world class universities outside the US. I was especially [...]
April 19th, 2011 - 6:19 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who is Richard Sandefer and Why Should I Care?
Sandefer is the founder of the Acton School of Business and a prime mover behind the effort in Texas to radically change the University of Texas. from Real Estate Investment Ideas No doubt the most unusual M.B.A. program in the country is run by the Acton School of Business in Texas. It is built o[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Regents pressed to adopt list of higher ed ‘reforms’
Perry emails show plan to downgrade Texas universities By PATRICIA KILDAY HART, AUSTIN BUREAU, www.chron.com April 17, 2011, 7:37AM ….In May 2008, Perry summoned all Texas university regents and chancellors to a higher education summit and to hear Austin businessman Jeff Sandefer, a major Perr[...]
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[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 10:27 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
PreMeds: A Different View
The chariot scene in the movie Ben Hur has all the trappings of mindless, driven competition .. just like premed? As an MD and an intellectual, I find the chariot race of pre med stultifying. Too many premeds, too few slots result in competitors who mindlessly do selfless things … whether that[...]
February 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who OWNS what UW faculty create?
All faculty need to understand that we DO have a contract and that contract, the Faculty Code, effects a lot more than “just” free speech or due process. The Code effects YOUR rights to work you produce, even if that work is on “your own time.” Stanford University has asked[...]
February 24th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Misc.
Humanities Should Not Be a Partisan Pawn.
Don’t cut humanities By David J. Skorton, President of Cornell from Washington Post Last month, the Republican Study Committee released its hard-hitting recommendations for reductions in the federal budget. Regardless of our individual politics, and whether we agree with any of the targets for[...]
UW: Art History Goes Online
The University of Washington Press, in collaboration with Duke University Press, the Pennsylvania State University Press, and the University of Pennsylvania Press, has been awarded a collaborative publishing grant of $1.257 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to publish first books by scho[...]
February 12th, 2011 - 7:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW Has a Better Idea than Texas’ $10,000 College Degree!
AUSTIN (KXAN Erin Cargile) – During his state of the state address Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry said it is time for colleges and universities to lay out a low-cost path to a degree. “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds i[...]