This may surprise you. WA State is NOT amongst the leaders in cut backs in higher ed. The worst? Look here. Old Mizzou comes out first! WA did not even make the worst 13! Where we rank in the cuts to state higher ed.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Schools’
February 8th, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges
States Facing The Biggest Higher Ed Cutbacks In 2011
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.[...]
February 1st, 2011 - 5:03 pm § in Schools & Colleges
What Are Students Taught About Violence?
Melissa P. Upton, M.D. At my children’s elementary school, they were required to sign “no weapons, no violence” honor code each autumn, and parents had to co-sign. No toy weapons were allowed, even with costumes, but, and addition, no object (pencil, book, bat) could be used as a[...]
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 - 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 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[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
What would happen if Apple stopped creating new products?
There is a lot of fantasy going on about ways of cutting costs at public universities while somehow compensating with scholarships or creating private endowments for public schools. AINT gonna happen! Here in Washington state, the state part of the cost of higher ed is already down to 30% … [...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WA State Colleges Go Online!
With a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is developing low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. The first 43 courses, which are as varied as “General [...]
January 8th, 2011 - 6:40 pm § in Misc.
For Profit Universities: a view from Harvard’s Crimson
Crimson Editorial Staff The evidence against for-profit colleges has been piling up for months, and it is disheartening that all the federal government has offered in response is pontification and paper. The schools have seen a surge in popularity, and the General Accounting Office estimates their e[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]