Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tuition’
March 9th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
Does Inclusiveness Lower Academic Standards?
Editorial By The Daily Orange Editorial Board, Syracuse University Published: Monday, February 21, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 02:02 CORRECTION: In this editorial, the change in the percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students is misstated. In 2009, 26.5 percent of students were Pell Gran[...]
March 6th, 2011 - 9:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: Solve budget crisis = online ed, drop tuition “discounts,” end tenure.
Ed. As the UW Presidential Search continues with little apparent faculty input, this survey of sitting presidents is very disturbing. The bottom line is that these CEOs seem to have no interest in academic quality, whether that means addressing the increasing issue of remedial classwork or the nee[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 11:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Seattle Meeting, Support for Higher Ed. Monday Evening, Cleveland High
Keeping the Promise for Higher Education – a Community Conversation Monday, March 7, 2011 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Cleveland High School to make your voice heard. Leading this conversation: KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa Brad Smith, Microsoft Ed Taylor, Un[...]
URGENT: Call From UW Students For Faculty to Lobby on Monday!
To concerned faculty The ASUW Office of Government Relations, in conjunction with the Washington Student Association, is participating in a statewide lobby day down in Olympia on this coming Monday, 3/7/11. In response to the recent and proposed cuts to higher education we want to present a united f[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Uncategorized
Other UW to go private?
Ed. This has been coming for some time and may be coming to the UW near you! The issue is not just giving UW (either one) the ability to raise tuition. Privatiziing public ivies will inevitably mean decreasing access to students from our own state(s). See other TA posts on privatization. March[...]
March 1st, 2011 - 7:12 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Declines in Higher Education in US and Britain vs. Rest of World
University students are having to meet more of the cost of their higher education in countries with existing mass higher education systems and “aging demographics” – and the trend towards reduced public spending on universities looks set to continue. A new report, released today, s[...]
February 28th, 2011 - 3:03 pm § in Misc.
If College Athletics “make money” than why do they also need to beg?
After Flurry of Fund Raising, Cal Will Keep 3 Sports February 11, 2011, 2:33 pm from the Chronicle of Higher Education Libby Sander Nearly five months after announcing that it would cut five of its 29 sports as a cost-saving measure, the University of California at Berkeley now says it has raised en[...]
February 18th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Misc.
Paying Tuition in REAL Dollars
University of Colorado student Nic Ramos can afford to pay for college, thanks to his parents. But he wanted to show his school just how much his semester cost by paying in singles. That’s right – 14,309 dollar bills and some change. “It’s just an absurd amount of money. I wanted[...]
February 16th, 2011 - 11:47 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UW (the other one) Students and Professors Rally Against Governor
from The Chronicle, by Jack Stripling, via Raya Fidel. Thousands of protesters gathered on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol here on Tuesday to voice their opposition to a fast-moving proposal that would strip the union bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members, [...]