Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed a $170 million cut to the universities for fiscal 2012, an amount that, if enacted, would amount to a 37 percent reduction in state support to the schools from the past thee years. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/02/20110202[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
Privatizing the UW, one buck at a time.
Seattle Times: Rising tuition a threat to GET program The GET program commits Washington State to pay tuition at a state school in return for savings by the parents put into GET. In effect “we” have guaranteed parents that their investments will pay for their kids’ education.[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 5:01 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Disgruntled Students Start Petition to Close Kaplan U
All they wanted was an education. All they got was debt. More and more former students at Kaplan University – the lucrative chain of “for-profit” colleges owned by the Washington Post Company – are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and [...]
January 26th, 2011 - 10:12 pm § in UW
Tuition-Setting Authority: There’s Work to Do First
from Publicola By Rep. Marko Liias, In 2009, I proudly led the fight on the floor of the State House of Representatives against a proposal to increase tuition at our state colleges by nearly 30 percent. We came within one vote of succeeding and our fight sent a strong message about the political r[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 2:28 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Record Applications to Harvard College
Nearly 35,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2015 for entry in August, an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year’s record 30,489, and of more than 50 percent since 22,955 applied four years ago.[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 11:51 am § in Schools & Colleges
Rush Limbaugh Opposes the Academic 1%!
Limbaugh’s Class Warfare Vs. College Presidents By John K. Wilson Rush Limbaugh normally hates class warfare. So it was a bit unusual today when he came out and denounced millionaires. Of course, Limbaugh only hates one particular kind of millionaire: college presidents. Limbaugh declared, the bo[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 21st, 2011 - 9:30 pm § in UW
When Schools Become Charities
Excerpted from Johann Neem at United Faculty of Washington According to … Governor (Gregoire)’s logic, …parents who no longer have kids in school, adults without children, and parents who can send their children to private schools do not have to share the burden. But if the benefits ar[...]
China debates: Reagan vs. Mao?
Tania Branigan of the Guardian: Communisty party top brass depart from tight-lipped unity as politburo gears up for change in 2012 excerpts “One of the most important lessons Chinese leaders have learned from the 1989 Tiananmen incident is that they should not reveal their internal conflict[...]
Where Does This Leave UW biz school??????????
According to a forthcoming paper written by Northwestern assistant professor Lauren Rivera, recruiters at top law firms, consulting agencies and investment banks are interested only in students who attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and the Wharton School Business at the University of Penns[...]