from Huff Post Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms. Just like in neighbouring Louisana (search online for “louisiana concealed carry” to learn more), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
UPDATE: A $32/adult answer to cuts at the OTHER UW!
The video makes the point that the cost of solving the budget crisis in Wisconsin is $32/adult. [...]
February 24th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Misc.
Humanities Should Not Be a Partisan Pawn.
Don’t cut humanities By David J. Skorton, President of Cornell from Washington Post Last month, the Republican Study Committee released its hard-hitting recommendations for reductions in the federal budget. Regardless of our individual politics, and whether we agree with any of the targets for[...]
February 18th, 2011 - 7:05 am § in Schools & Colleges
End Tenure at UU
from The Daily Utah Chronicle Rep. Christopher Herrod, R-Provo, introduced a bill Monday that he said would encourage more competition for universities by prohibiting universities f(in Utah) rom giving their professors tenure. …. Universities should be keeping the best professors rather than[...]
February 12th, 2011 - 7:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW Has a Better Idea than Texas’ $10,000 College Degree!
AUSTIN (KXAN Erin Cargile) – During his state of the state address Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry said it is time for colleges and universities to lay out a low-cost path to a degree. “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds i[...]
Campus Threats: Not Funny Anymore
Over at the AAUP listserv, Galya Diment has a funny post about a math professor at California State University, Northridge caught on video urinating on a colleague’s door. While I assume that the post was an effort to relieve tension, I am not at all relieved by the lack of focus on our REAL[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:18 am § in China
Photocopying censored at Chinese University
from Macleans Police ask students and faculty to report subversive materials Chinese police have ordered students and faculty at Peking University to stop photocopying materials critical of the government. The order posted to the wall by local Yanyuan Police in 29 copy rooms read, “Materials that [...]
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 18th, 2011 - 1:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Guns on Campus
Some months ago I went to a Beck rally armed with faux pellet guns .. gifts to the crown, intended to make a point. I was taken seriously by the Beckies, even invited in (at their cost) to hear the great man speak. But some gun totin liberal friends, including faculty colleagues, tried to scare [&[...]