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.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
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 11th, 2011 - 11:18 pm § in America
Romney Bets, Was Right, Loses Bet.
So Romney Bet $10,00 That Perry Had Misquoted Him. Romney was right but loses bet. Bettors at Intrade, the political futures market, are betting against Mr. Romney. Read more by Nate Silver Meantime, from ABC Factchecking: Rick Perry: “I’m listenin’ to you, Mitt, and I’m hearin’ you say al[...]
Universities On Sale, Academic Principles Put Aside
Saudi Arabia Courts Foreign Academic Partners With Cash Professors see potential for research and pioneering ventures; critics warn that the kingdom should carry out internal reforms first The Chronicle This issue has bothered me for many years. The UW has also participated in building campuses in[...]
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 28th, 2011 - 5:56 am § in Misc.
REPUBLICANS OUTMANEUVERED?
It is beginning to look as if Obama has been taking lessons from Muhamed Ali! Remember “rope a dope?” Ezra Klein at the WASHINGTON POST makes an amazing point … if the Democrats simply accept the triggers resulting from last weeks Super Committee crash, the result is a deficit[...]
November 21st, 2011 - 6:42 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
Ana Mari Cauce .. new UW Provost
Ana Mari Cauce is. among more important things, the author of the title of this site .. “The AVE” was her idea. I remember Ana Mari suggesting that we use a name that combines the idea of a physical place, “The Ave,” with the idea of a venue for public discussion! That sp[...]
What Happens When Ideology., Hypocrisy, Reality and Children’s Welfare Come Together?
I totally support the public schools … but!!!!!!!! What happens when the best of parents meets reality? If the schools are SO bad for other people’s kids that they merit serious reform, how can a parent send her own kids to the same schools? Emanuel To Send Kids To Private School Mayor[...]
Why We Should Have a Free Market in Education
from Sound Politics by pudge, Maybe Obama Needs to Go Back to School Our entire nation depends, for our economic future, on an industry that gets hundreds of billions of dollars in direct subsidies from the federal government each year. This year, President Obama’s administration is increasi[...]
End of an era
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