Is the UW Athletic Department run as an amusement with essentially no attention to the impact of its public face on its purported educational mission of this great school? This questionis raised by the plans, next week, for the UW to host a midweek football game. The result has been a lot of c[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington State Higher Ed.’
September 1st, 2010 - 8:19 am § in Schools & Colleges
16% State Support: When Does the UW Admit It is a Private School?
August 29, 2010 Cuts Intensify Identity Crisis for Washington’s Flagship Campus Clouds gather over the flagship campus of the U. of Washington. The campus, administrators say, is expected to be both “racehorse and workhorse” for the state. The state lacks the depth of public-univer[...]
July 29th, 2010 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
A Lesson from Obama: Teachers’ Unions and Administrators vs Faculty Elitism
OBAMA and DUNCAN: TEACHERS MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE Arnie Duncan, Sec. of Education, sees the solution to the decay if our secondary school system as requiring a free market .. odd for a liberal, perhaps courageous for a democrat, and very irritating to the teachers’ unions. Obviously Obama is [...]
June 15th, 2010 - 10:29 am § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Why I Believe in a Smaller UW
Shouldn't the UW and WSU be smaller and less competitive in football?[...]