I find the editor to be an absolute moron. Lets all make dumbass claims with no sources or proof whatsoever. Here, I will make a claim that only an moron who actually thinks you can buy a degree from a regionally accredited college for $12000 will believe: The author is a very intelligent, well educ[...]
Posts Tagged ‘online learning’
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[...]
May 3rd, 2012 - 2:00 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
AFL CIO gives up landmark campus
from The Examiner In the latest sign of the fast-shrinking Big Labor movement, the National Labor College established in 1969 by AFL-CIO icon George Meany to teach new labor organizing tactics and management to new generations of activists is selling its sprawling Silver Spring, Md. campus. The reas[...]
February 14th, 2012 - 5:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Privitization of UC Berkeley
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.[...]
January 16th, 2012 - 7:35 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
BERKELEY BLOG: UC and NSF Teach Scientists How to Launch a Business
The government starts an incubator UC Professor gets a call: “Our country needs you.” … Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business“Part of the NSF charter is to commercialize the best of the science and engineering research we fund. We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad[...]
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor UC WHY BERKELEY FACULTY WENT ON STRIKE University professors (unless they have a large research grant) have no secretaries to prepare their manuscripts for publication or the hundreds of letters of recommendation, the purgatorial price professors pay for [...]
December 15th, 2011 - 3:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Online Learning From Stanford
Stanford is offering many online courses for free, I’m not sure if you know about them, but these seem interesting: Probabilistic Graphical Models: http://www.pgm-class.org/ Machine Learning: http://jan2012.ml-class.org/[...]
December 2nd, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Hypocrisy
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]
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[...]
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[...]