Don’t cut humanities By David J. Skorton, President of Cornell from Washington Post Last month, the Republican Study Committee released its hard-hitting recommendations for reductions in the federal budget. Regardless of our individual politics, and whether we agree with any of the targets for[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington State Higher Ed.’
What The New State Supreme Decision On Faculty Discipline Means
This last Thursday, February 3, 2011, the Washington Supreme Court handed down a decision that clarifies the legal framework under which state universities and colleges may discipline tenured faculty members accused of misconduct. The case is Mills v. Western Washington University, Docket No. 83597-[...]
Privatizing the UW, one buck at a time.
Seattle Times: Rising tuition a threat to GET program The GET program commits Washington State to pay tuition at a state school in return for savings by the parents put into GET. In effect “we” have guaranteed parents that their investments will pay for their kids’ education.[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 10:12 pm § in UW
Tuition-Setting Authority: There’s Work to Do First
from Publicola By Rep. Marko Liias, In 2009, I proudly led the fight on the floor of the State House of Representatives against a proposal to increase tuition at our state colleges by nearly 30 percent. We came within one vote of succeeding and our fight sent a strong message about the political r[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WA State Colleges Go Online!
With a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is developing low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. The first 43 courses, which are as varied as “General [...]
Carlyle: Merge State Colleges into a UW/WSU System?
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (edited from his blog) ….. Recently I find myself looking at the large scale structural issue in higher education with a recognition and acknowledgement that despite my private protests governance does matter. But I don’t mean governance in the Olympia sense of whether to[...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is U Penn Cheaper than UW?
David Goldstein’s latest post at HorseAss is a very disturbing comparison of true costs (after grants, loans, and so on) of attendance at his alma mater U. Penn. vs a typical public university. The point he makes is that the real cost of a student attending a private ivy, U. Penn, may not be a[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:55 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Getting folks to vote against their interests.
Bill Lyne of the United Faculty of Washington writes about Governor Gregoire’s proposed budget. he says: ….. Tens of millions of dollars poured into Washington this fall to convince us that it’s better to have tens of thousands of children without health care than it is to pay two [...]