Calif RAs to Get Union Rights? By Bob Grant The California legislature takes steps to broaden the ability of graduate students to unionize by extending collective bargaining rights to research assistants.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
August 27th, 2012 - 8:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Election 2012 .. The Republican union issues come to the campus!
August 15th, 2012 - 9:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
Breaking News: Boston’s Northeastern University to open campus in South Lake Union
Northeastern University is coming to Seattle. This is BIG news. Northeastern is anything but another Western Governors or Delphi. Northeastern is very much a serious university built on a VERY different model than anything we have here. Its Boston campus offers high quality academic training, ea[...]
June 28th, 2012 - 8:29 am § in UW
UW Recruits Top Faculty in Artificial Intelligence
The new recruits include Carlos Guestrin, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Emily Fox and Ben Taskar, both professors at the University of Pennsylvania; and Jeff Heer, a professor at Stanford University. These are all outstanding computer scientists who will continue the thrust Ed Lazowska [...]
June 27th, 2012 - 12:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Leading UW Regent Donates $$ to McKenna
Jeff Brotman, Democratic power donor, donates $5,000 to Rob McKenna, Seattle Times Jeff Brotman is well known as a UW regent, founder of Costco, and avid financial supporter of the UW. He has hosted Mr. Obama but now is also donating to Rob McKenna, the Republican candidate for governor. This is ver[...]
May 21st, 2012 - 9:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
UW President Does Not Make Top 50 in Salaries
This is weird. Is it just because Michael Young has been appointed for less then a year?[...]
March 21st, 2012 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
UW Prof Plays at Humans vs Zombies
John Sahr admits, in all honesty, that he’s a pretty lousy zombie, and little better as a human zombie hunter. July 20, 2011 By Peter Kelley UW News Mary Levin John Sahr is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs — but he’s also a regular player [...]
March 14th, 2012 - 10:11 am § in UW
UW Rankings: UW Med Ranks at the top of BOTH Research and Primary Care!
Somebody should share this with Jim McDermott Our Congressman continues, as far as I know, to be utterly unaware of the prominence of the UW …. By KING 5 News http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46720469/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/ U.S. News & World Report has ranked several University of Washington[...]
February 6th, 2012 - 10:29 am § in Misc.
Who Owns the Copyright on Federal Research?
A colleague wrote to me today at the AAUP in response to a post I had made about taking the rights t9 copyright federal researech away from publishers. Steve, Last spring, I sent off a paper to the Journal of Geophysical Research, a non profit owned by the American Geophysical Union. To do a non[...]
January 13th, 2012 - 10:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
David Brewster at Crosscut Interviews Michael Young
Can Mike Young save the UW? He’s been dealt a bad hand, and he’s keeping his cards close to his vest. But the new president may have the smarts and the steadiness to rebuild the finances of this critical institution. Aiming to rank among the academic elite, like the University of Washing[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]