This is a must! The UW’s purchase of KPLU was a very sad move , an effort to undermine the diversity of listeners and need for local programming rather than the NPR feed. KPLU is very different, featuring Jazz and new programs built here along the sound.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW faculty governance’
February 25th, 2016 - 11:25 am § in Misc.
UW Food Fight
So, at long last, our AAUP listserv has been abused to post public shaming dossiers on individual faculty members, complete with insinuations about their politics and characters and paranoid speculations about hidden agendas. Dr. Kaiyala’s contemptible post transports us back to a dark peri[...]
The Fight to Save a Brutalist Building on the UW Campus
AAUP LISTSERV: Don Abramson To become *more* informed about the Nuclear Reactor Building, I encourage anyone who cares enough to follow this thread to peruse the “Statement of Significance” for the NRB in the National Register of Historic Places documentation itself. It’s on page 9[...]
February 17th, 2016 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
(Seattle) Vast Far-Left-Wing Conspiracy to Control UW Unmasked
The AAUP listserv is beginning to sound more than a bit like a Republican Presidential debate. While one side brings up the issues of politicization of the UW by SEIU, the other in a not so naive way, proclaims that is is shocked at claims that the SEIU and SEIU/UW have been associated with c[...]
Who Runs the UW? The Faculty or the Hired Administrators?
Rajib Dooga This time a question that has been lurking at the back of my mind ever since first year of grad school. I’m hoping list members can help me “scratch this old itch.” Please note that this is not about any specific action or event, and most definitely not about the proximate trigge[...]
September 23rd, 2015 - 1:07 pm § in Misc.
Where are Banks and Sawant as the UW Announces It Is Building Its New Campus in Bellevue?
The UW plans to have 3,000 students at its new high tech Bellevue Campus. The investment in this new campus will be huge. It will start with a $40 million in funding from Microsoft. Nobody in Seattle seems to care. I care because 30 years ago my wife and I chose to live on Capital Hill [...]
October 27th, 2014 - 10:12 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Why Do Some UW Professors Feel Voting Is Beneath Them?
One of my contacts at the University of Washington told me this weekend some of his colleagues won’t vote in next week’s election. I asked him why — after all, you expect intellectual types to be socially and politically engaged — and he said because once they’ve got th[...]
October 21st, 2014 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Umbundling Tenure
From Inside Higher Education: The fact is that much of the debate, in the United States and elsewhere, about the challenges facing higher education is focused in the wrong direction. Rather than constantly squeezing the professoriate and trying to ensure maximum productivity in narrowly defined area[...]
October 6th, 2014 - 10:36 am § in Misc.
Academic Warfare: Admin vs Faculty
Clash Between Chicago State U. and Its Faculty Leaders Redefines Hardball By Peter Schmidt Many higher-education institutions experience internal fights over governance, but Chicago State University’s administration and its Faculty Senate are going at each other in ways that their counterparts els[...]
AAUP censors Phyllis Wise
University of Illinois censured for pulling Steven Salaita job over anti-Israel tweets While I find Salaita’s pro Hamas rhetoric offensive, Wise’s actions appear to be based only on her responses to wealthy contributors. Neither she nor the University has offered any other explanation fo[...]