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 ‘tuition’
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[...]
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[...]
Tuition Riots in England
This post began with a link to video of riots in England because the conservative government is raising tuition to near American levels. What I fear is that England is moving backward and we are moving forward, both toward the pre WWII system of Victorian England! “Thomas Jefferson was the pri[...]
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[...]
November 10th, 2010 - 9:54 am § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
SPIEGEL: Is the US Education System, with its faith in the magic of unregulated entrepreneurs, viable?
The current Spiegel English edition has a very well written article on the “nouveau poor” in the USA. This ought to have special meaning for the UW at a time when British students are protesting their new government’s plan to change from free tuition to loans. Imagine, that! Th[...]
A modest proposal
I advocate, more or less, a "high tuition, high financial aid" model for the UW.[...]
June 15th, 2010 - 10:29 am § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Why I Believe in a Smaller UW
Shouldn't the UW and WSU be smaller and less competitive in football?[...]