Last Friday, the Washington State Senate voted to lower the standards of our colleges and universities to a standard that is shocking. These votes were not based on the need to control the bidgets. They actually add to the costs of higher education in the State. As a result of these votes, I wou[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
April 10th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Schools & Colleges
BREAKING NEWS: Online Schools will be regulated by the Department of Education
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed on Saturday that the final deal will not include the rider that would have prevented the Obama administration from cracking down on the online school industry. based on news Huffington Post, with additions by Ed: A bipartisan group of H[...]
We’re headed, rapidly, toward the total privatization of the UW. The good news is there won’t be this in-state, out-of-state controversy anymore. It will be pure meritocracy, equally expensive to all (unless you qualify for financial aid).
from Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat: You know how the UW is turning away local valedictorians in favor of high-priced, out-of-state students, and everybody’s gone Husky purple with rage? “This is an outrageous and egregious abuse of power,” read one of the 700-plus Web comment[...]
UPDATE: Why WGU pay puts WGU’s Mendenhall near the top of presidents of elite private universitiies
I found an article in the Deseret News from 2008/ The article notes that President Mendenhall’s salary far exceeds those of other college presidents in Utah. UPDATE, originally posted on Mar 30, 2011 William A. Sederburg, Utah’s commissioner of higher education, told the Deseret News t[...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
As the UW becomes an Ivy. will WA kids be turned away?
from Katherine Long at the Seattle Times: Why straight-A’s may not get you into UW this year In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fal[...]
March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:58 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Engineering vs. liberal arts: Who’s right — Bill or Steve?
Vivek Wadhwa, Duke College of engineering Ed. Prof. Wadha writes about a dilemma. While he feels strongly that the humanities are essential for educating creative people in his discipline, graduates of humanities programs have huge trouble being employed. He noted that 63% of the CEOs or heads[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
March 21st, 2011 - 1:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Follow up: Is the loss of faculty jobs justified by magical new technology?
Academic Salaries? Not so Golden! Earlier today, I posted on the $700,000 salary of the President of an online only, no faculty university called Western Governors University. How does President Mendenhall justify such a salary? His website suggests he can do this because he claims not to ne[...]
How to Cut Costs of Higher Ed? .. eliminate the faculty
Bill would partner Washington with online university Western Governors University Enrollment: 20,000 students nationwide, 900 of them in Washington state. Degrees offered: More than 50 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in subjects such as business, health, information technology an[...]