UW Faculty Member, Resigns As Finance Minister for Libya, Calls New Leaders Unrepresentative Elite Ali Tarhouni is returning to Seattle for a brief visit before going back to his homeland to build a new political party. Dr. Tarhouni left Libya as a student in 1973, fingered by the Gaddafi regime for[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
November 21st, 2011 - 11:46 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UW Bothell Prof Predicts Privitization of Universities
” “from each according to his or her abilities, to each according to his or her needs” is not a bad motto for public higher education.” “ (from AAUP Magazine, Academe) By Bruce Burgett (redacted and edited) In spring 2010, a group of University of Washington administrators [...]
October 12th, 2011 - 10:31 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UW AAUP Censors a post about the NIH.
A few days ago I posted a very important issue .. the 50% decline in funding rates at he NIH since the early 2000’s. I discussed why this should be of concern to all of us interested in the University School of Medicine. I also suggested that our federal representatives need to be educated a[...]
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:21 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
The AVE Challenge: Who is going to win the Nobel Sunday Night?
About 9 AM Stockholm time Monday, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. Here is Thompsons’s list with my thumb added in an appropriate direction where[...]
September 19th, 2011 - 7:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, I. Self Segregation
Dear AAUP: Just a note as a lurking alumna. I got my Ph. D. from Slavic Languages in 2001. I worked as a Mellon Post-Doc at Emory University the two years after that. Since then, I have mostly been working as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington DC, a HBCU. HBCU stands for Historically Bla[...]
Will the UW lose its role in global higher education?
Even a Century After the Fall of the British Empire, Oxford and Cambridge Retain Their Roles As Global Leaders in Higher Education …. The UW has that role today as one of America’s great “private ivies.” Will we retain our stature? (Based in part of report by CHRISTINE A[...]
September 9th, 2011 - 5:33 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Where the “new” tuition dollars are going
by Goldy from the SLOG University of Washington director of undergraduate admissions Philip Ballinger announced that the university would be restoring the 150 slots for resident freshman that were cut earlier this year as part of a cost-cutting move. The University intends to continue the overall gr[...]
June 1st, 2011 - 4:46 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: UW Global Health Faculty Join Cause Against Husky Concessionaire SODEXO
from AAUP listserv May 24, 2011 To: Phyllis Wise, UW Interim President Fr: Department of Global Health, MPH Faculty re: UW Sodexo Contract It has come to our attention that U. W. students affiliated with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) has been urging the UW to drop its multi-million d[...]
May 19th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Two UW faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,113 and the total n[...]
UW part of .4 billion dollar, four year mega effort in genomics.
NIH Plans $416-Million for Genomics Research The NIH will spend $416 million over the next four years in its version of “big science.” Most of this underwrites large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University i[...]