cartoon by William Brown for The Chronicle of Higher Education The UW won a bowl game! I was busy but my wife watched as Jake Locker topped off his season of Husky fame. It is fun when the Huskies have a genuine local, Washington State hero! With all that, it seemed to me that things […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘International Students’
December 29th, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Third World America, II
see also Part I: going to school on a Native American Reservation. Robert Reich’s summary of the woes of our declining education system seems almost a continuation of the story in Part 1 of a young American trying to get an education under the third world standards of life on an Indian reserva[...]
December 20th, 2010 - 9:06 am § in Politics
How Do The Swedes Do It?
The net worth of Swedish households grew by 244 billion kronor ($35.58 billion) to 7.26 trillion kronor in the third quarter, the measure’s highest nominal level ever, according to a new SEB study. The lesson for the UW and Washington State is that Sweden, a country the size of WAstate, is com[...]
December 18th, 2010 - 9:44 am § in Misc.
A letter to my students
Michael O’Hare, professor of public policy | 8/24/10 | from Berkeley Blog Welcome to Berkeley, probably still the best public university in the world. Meet your classmates, the best group of partners you can find anywhere. The percentages for grades on exams, papers, etc. in my courses always [...]
July 26th, 2010 - 10:48 am § in Misc.
Russian State University for the Humanities .. Competes with UW for students?
Efim Pivovar, president of the Russian State University for the Humanities, discusses the challenges one of Russia’s best educational establishments is facing in the process of going global. I have wondered whether “outsourcing” might present a threat to America’s greatest as[...]