UW alumni have formed a PAC, UW Impact, to promote the UDub in Olympia and across the State. The cast is impressive, Chris Vance a high profile Republican, joins Christian Sinderman, neither a UW grad, will be paid lobbyists. This may be good news. The challenge UW Impact faces is huge. Financia[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
December 18th, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
From the UK to UC, Same Bad News
The University of California Regents are voting on a plan for more out-of-state students, fully online classes and three-year undergraduate degrees. A Berkeley Prof Comments: From Berkeley Blog Rosemary Joyce, anthropology prof | 12/9/10 I am writing this blog post from London, where today, studen[...]
December 6th, 2010 - 5:46 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Back to The Future
A Two Tier University System, UW vs. UK? based on an article by Arthur M. Hauptman in the Chronicle England’s conservative government is turning Britain “back to a future” where its education system looks remarkably like its past of a 100 years ago, an elitist system with two tiers[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 2:08 pm § in Misc.
UW Dropout Holds Forth:
UPDATE Berkeley just raised its tuition to over $50,000. How does this affect OUR students? Read a comment from a UW dropout. You might also want to click on the tuition tag or privitization tags. The University of Washington is not aiding in my entrepreneurial endeavors but only detracting fr[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 11:25 am § in Schools & Colleges
Condoleezza Rice: Are the Dreams of American Education Coming to an End?
Condoleezza Rice on what is happening to education in the US: “Today, I’m concerned about this [inequality] when I can look at the zip code and tell whether or not you’re going to get a good education. This is terrifying,” ……“As an educator, it’s the lost potential, as a R[...]
December 3rd, 2010 - 8:54 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Is Privitization Inevitable or will the Huskies Save the UW?
Raymund A. Paredes, commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. told Texas Universities that legislators hear higher education as saying “give us more money and leave us alone,” “I can tell you that argument doesn’t work,” he said. The speech is part [...]
For-Profit Education and the Failure of Capitalism
Great Read at HorsesAss.[...]
November 29th, 2010 - 10:25 am § in Uncategorized
To Big to be Known, Protecting Possible UW Presidents
Confidentiality Is Becoming the Norm in Presidential Searches By Dennis M. Barden Mr. Barden is a vice president at Witt/Kieffer, an executive search firm. Witt Keiffer is not the search firm hired by the UW for our search. from the Chronicle of Higher Eduation, November 28, 2010 Mr. Barden writes a[...]
PRIVATIZE THE UW!
Dick Startz, over at Crosscut has posted an article proposing a strange sort of state capitalism as a solution to funding the schools. I have excerpted relevant parts of his text below (in blue) but suggest you read the entire text at Crosscut. With all due respect to a faculty colleague, this pro[...]
UW to LEND $210,000,000 to Huskies?
The UW is planning to rebuild Husky stadium at a cost of $250,ooo,000. Purportedly this cost was to be born by bond issues and paid back from private contributions and stadium revenues. NOT SO FAST. Now it appears that of the $255,ooo,ooo, only $14.5 million has come from private sources! In[...]