A closer look at UC’s “tuition-free golden past” and who’s financially hurting today by Bob Jacobsen, professor of physics |Berkeley Blog Tom Hayden recently wrote an article, entitled “We Can’t Afford to Be Quiet About the Rising Cost of College,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘western governors’
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor UC WHY BERKELEY FACULTY WENT ON STRIKE University professors (unless they have a large research grant) have no secretaries to prepare their manuscripts for publication or the hundreds of letters of recommendation, the purgatorial price professors pay for [...]
January 3rd, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Uncategorized
Online Course in Military Design, Free!
Military Arts 321 (prerequ. Computer Assisted Design 201, Military History 120, Photoshop XXX, Highest Royal Security Clearance Required, level 7) Learn how to design weapons for the next war. Course begins with a review of the advanced military concepts developed by the Germans in WWII. For all the[...]
December 15th, 2011 - 3:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Online Learning From Stanford
Stanford is offering many online courses for free, I’m not sure if you know about them, but these seem interesting: Probabilistic Graphical Models: http://www.pgm-class.org/ Machine Learning: http://jan2012.ml-class.org/[...]
November 29th, 2011 - 12:25 pm § in Schools & Colleges
The Faculty Code at “For Profits”
Five Six Troubling Things About the For-Profit Industry’s Self-Policing Standards Campus Progress, November 21, 2011 by Brian Stewart Kaplan is one of 16 for-profit schools that have signed the Foundation for Educational Success’ Standards of Responsible Conduct. For-profit c[...]
November 29th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in Misc.
PR release from WGU
Former Winona State University Provost Joins Online University SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Western Governors University (WGU), www.wgu.edu, has appointed former Winona State University Provost, Dr. Sally Johnstone, as Vice President, Academic Advancement. In this as[...]
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 - 10:34 am § in America
How to fix higher education, on the cheap!
Ed Lascowza, a UW Prof, bemoans the fact that we turn away two-thirds of the students qualified to become computer scientists. TWO THIRDS! For a lot of us, Ed misses the question. Students may want Comp Sci or pre med, but that may not be where the jobs are. Worse, shouldn’t we be giving[...]
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[...]
Accreditation of Online “Universities” a hot potato
Based on a a truly frightening article The Chronicle of Higher Education WGU may want to worry about its accreditation. Congress has gotten involved in accrediting online colleges. The motivation in Congress is that “for-profit” companies rake in federal financial aid withou[...]