Dear Colleague Some of you may know about this gif. If not I hope your find it as funny as I do. I made it by surfing the web for all Husky branded stuff. I found over 200! Isn’t amazing to think that all of these are covered by someone’s claim of a copyright**? Here [&hellip[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
UW Study Shows Positive Basis for Discrimination
Forget hostility, favouritism leads to most discrimination Submitted by Jamie Williamson on Tue, 05/20/2014 – 08:51 Washington, May 20 : In what could expand the definition of discrimination, scholars have found that most discrimination is not caused by intention to harm people different from [...]
May 19th, 2014 - 12:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
A Model For Creating Leading Universities
Berkeley Blog: Seeking an alternative to the World Class University model John Douglass, senior research fellow, Center for Studies in Higher Education | 5/14/14 | 3 comments | Leave a comment The concept of the World Class University is cited across the world, but it represents a paradigm that is n[...]
A Devout Catholic Runs America’s Biological Research
Does Religion Matter? Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins has been controversial among scientists because he has held this position while also being an outspoken believer in te literal truth of the Christian Bible and, apparently, a fervent supporter of the[...]
May 13th, 2014 - 4:06 am § in Misc.
Why Go the UW? II UW Prof speaks
Yesterday’s cross post from the AAAUP Listserv reflected response by a leading member of the community college faculty to comments by UW faculty on the quality of education students get at the community colleges. Paul Burstein ruffled some feathers on the AAUP Listserv when he questioned com[...]
May 12th, 2014 - 3:31 am § in Schools & Colleges
Why go to the UW? I .. A Community College Professor Speaks
This post at the AAUP listserv came as part of a lengthy discussion of the role of the community colleges in replacing the first two years of a college education .. the years we hope give students a broad basis for later life. The reply by Professor Kinsel is worth reading because it shows how [&h[...]
May 8th, 2014 - 1:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
WAZZU ,,, being investigated for sex abuse!
WSU joins Harvard Law as Subject of Investigation for Sex Abuse The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today a list of the higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harass[...]
May 7th, 2014 - 7:40 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Is the UW Now (Just) a Vocational School?
UW stopped investing in a broad-based liberal arts education long ago and most of our programs in the traditional liberal arts fields are now not competitive with our peer institutions Many posts in the AAUP Listserv discussion have tried to compare the liberal arts education available at UW wi[...]
May 7th, 2014 - 3:22 am § in Science
RESCUING US SCIENCE
Four Science Leaders Speak Out on How US Biomedical Research Can Survive Hard Times; “Rescuing U.S. Biomedical Research From Its Systemic Flaws” A recent article by Sam Stein on Huff Post sums it up pretty well, the US is suffering from a brain drain. Where once the best came here and becam[...]
I am African.
I got into a nice debate about genetics the other day. I was told African Americans are not African, genetically speaking. The debate started as a result of a comment that I made about black people needing to embrace Africa in the same way the majority of Jewish people I have met embrace Israel[...]