from the Australian An analysis of the government’s Excellence in Research for Australia report conducted by The Australian found that only 12 universities were performing research at or above international standard, with the top four performing at a rate that could be considered well above in[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
March 20th, 2011 - 6:00 pm § in Uncategorized
75% of Aussie Universities Do Not Meet World Standards
Paul Allen’s Toys
UPDATE: how Paul Allen affects UW Presidential search. I have a proposal: why doesn’t Paul Allen just buy the UW and make it the NW version of Harvard? I do not know what tax rate Billionaire Paul Allen pays, but the typical rate in his bracket is 15%! On the Tom Hartmann show, see Rep[...]
March 18th, 2011 - 10:18 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
WERITAS: In 2008, before the cuts, did the UW receive the second highest appropriation per student in the country?
Ed. The issue of privatizing the “public ivies” .. flagship state universities that rank with the Ivy League … is VERY real. Berkeley and the Univ. of Wisconsin are already well along that path. The debate places the commitment of faculty and, often the business community, agai[...]
To succeed, US must continue to invest in education, research
“America’s current circumstances are certainly serious. But there is a proven path forward, one that the United States has traveled with great success before: the rising path of innovation. After the Civil War and World War II, in particular, America restored its economic momentum with great[...]
To Jim McDermott, PLEASE READ THIS
UW TOPS IN PRIMARY CARE AND NIH RESEARCH! Ed. A few days ago we posted a riposte to Congressman McDermott because he failed to site the UWSOM in an article he authored in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. His article talked a lot about the importance of primary care and physicians[...]
March 10th, 2011 - 6:54 am § in Misc.
Privatize the UW: One Way to Make a LOT of Money
Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]
March 4th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UC Berkeley protests
BERKELEY, Calif. (story from AP)— Baton-wielding riot police at the University of California, Berkeley faced off Thursday evening with a growing number of demonstrators angry over state education cuts. Eight protesters occupied the fourth-floor outside ledge of the university’s Wheeler Hall,[...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 4:29 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Who Elected Bill Gates?
Gary Stager Teacher educator, education journalist, speaker, school reformer, university professor Posted AT HUFF POST : March 1, 2011 02:17 PM It’s sad to watch a once smart and talented man go mad right before our eyes. There needs to be an intervention for Bill Gates. I fear that he has tak[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
What China Can Teach Us About Evaluating Universities
from AAUP listserv I have no qualms with getting public universities to focus on graduation rates of students and employment rates of graduates, though I would agree with many colleagues that such a focus slants towards a narrow perspective of public universities’ missions. One real difficulty (an[...]