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Posts Tagged ‘Washington State Higher Ed.’

June 13th, 2012 - 11:06 pm § in Politics

Inslee and McKenna take very different positions on higher education

After experiencing  THE GRIM, ANTI-ACADEMIC ATMOSPHERE OF THE STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, I am becoming utterly confused by the governor’s race. I am very troubled and want to ask myself what Thomas Jefferson  would do? Is this another choice between centrist conservatives .. like Washingto[...]

March 5th, 2012 - 1:06 pm § in Misc., UW

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[...]

February 1st, 2012 - 12:46 pm § in America, Politics, Schools & Colleges

URGENT: Presidents’ Mtg tonight at Town Hall

WA State Presidents Promote  Higher Education Funding in Washington Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 7:00 – 9:00pm Great Hall; enter on 8th Avenue. $5. I spoke with a reporter who will be attending this tonight.  He asked me a lot of questions … more about areas of controversy than about the[...]

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 [...]

November 16th, 2011 - 12:32 am § in America, Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges, UW

Colleges can give atheletes 2,000/week in pocket money, Bobby Rush: Like the Mafia!

WASHINGTON (AP) —”I think they’re just one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind,” Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush said of the NCAA at a congressional forum on college sports Tuesday. “I think you would compare the NCAA to Al Capone and to the Ma[...]

November 14th, 2011 - 8:51 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges, Science

What If This Is The Future?

Excerpts from post by Jon Evans on Tech Crunch. There is something odd going on. While millions of long-term unemployed fight desperately to tread water, technology’s handmaidens — software engineers — are minting money like bailed-out bankers. The New York Times chimes in: “technology is qu[...]

November 8th, 2011 - 11:51 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges, Science

Our mismatch between the skills required for available jobs and individuals with those skills is growing faster than all but one other state, Delaware.

The Magic of “Computational Thinking” Training  More Folks Who Can Get Jobs? In response to OPED at the Seattle Times.  Rosemary McAuliffe, State Senator  and Ed Lazowska , UW Prof. pof Computer Science Like evangelicals of the past, Senator . McAuliffe and Professor Lazowska, have a [...]

October 31st, 2011 - 6:35 am § in America, Schools & Colleges, Science, UW

Will Congress Cut Salaries For UW School of Medicine Faculty?

The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator  (PI) by 17%, from  $199,700 to $165,300.  This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists.  Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]

October 22nd, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges

The Foundering Fathers vs Public Education

Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us  that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.” Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their founderi[...]

October 21st, 2011 - 11:14 pm § in Schools & Colleges

Goldman Sachs on The US Education System

from Jerusalem Post (excerpts) Abby Joseph Cohen, former Chief Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs and now President of their Global Market Institute :  “The most important challenge confronting the US economy is the education we provide our workers”. To be sure, Cohen cites the fed[...]