Ed: Imagine a future where a politically influenced, centralized, federal bureaucracy can put its stamp on courseware that awards credit in evolution, economics or even American History. This article in the Chronicle talks about a $2 billion dollar federal effort to develop open courseware. Th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘western governors’
May 10th, 2011 - 5:11 pm § in Misc.
Article on WGU Fails to Ask the Obvious Questions
Ed. I recommend an article on Western Governor’s University at the Inside Higher Education website. What worries me, however, is that the author, Steve Kolowich, focuses on the challenge to WGU from teachers and educators. These are people who his readers may see as having a personal interes[...]
April 25th, 2011 - 7:35 am § in Schools & Colleges
Privatizing Higher Ed in Britain?
from the Chronicle of Higher Education April 25, 2011, 11:32 am British universities that face closure as a result of financial pressure could be taken over and run by private companies, reports The Times of London. There is now only one private university in Britain, the University of Buckingham, b[...]
Let WGU manage the Huskies!
Now that Western Governors Washington is a Washington state university, why not ……? Imagine, without a need for faculty to annoy the athletes, their graduation rates would be wonderful! Imagine, for far less than the cost of athletic scholarship, WGU mentors could assure us that every at[...]
UW borrows 200 million to build stadium, Berkeley borrows 7 million to set up online classes
(Berkeley) officials … said on Friday that finding enough outside support had been a challenge. The university has secured the option to borrow $7-million to help pay for the project and may spend $4-million to $7-million of that money over the next several years, he said. Meantime .. the UW[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 11:40 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
McKinsey celebrates WGU as part of its Walmart approach to higher education…
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions Increasing the proportion of the adult population with a higher-education degree is critical to creating opportunities for individuals and sustaining the country’s economic growth. Yet college attainme[...]
WGU vs. Phoenix .. getting your BGED in Biology.
The Seattle Times reports that online schools are replacing the community colleges as place to get the bachelor’s equivalent degree. A new version of the GED is now emerging .. I call it the BGED .. Bachelor’s Graduation Equivalent Degree. Like their online high school equivalents, som[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 10:50 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Assault on Education Continues; New Bills Referred to Committee
Two new bills were introduced this week that would dramatically change standard practices in higher education in Washington State. HB 2049 (Zeiger R-25) establishes a new higher education performance advisory council to make recommendations on changes in higher education governance to the HECB/SBC[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 12:00 pm § in Misc.
The WGU Model I: The UW now must choose between becoming a private university in the State of Washington or downgrading itself and depriving Washington of a top ranked research university.
Last Friday, the Washington State Senate voted to lower the standards of our colleges and universities to a standard that is shocking. These votes were not based on the need to control the bidgets. They actually add to the costs of higher education in the State. As a result of these votes, I wou[...]
April 11th, 2011 - 6:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
WGUI Chancellor, PR Agent for Iraq War, No Previous Experience with Higher Ed.
Ed. Western Governors University is now officially a campus under the state of Indiana’s University system. The-AVE has commented on WGUI at this link. This post is an update and discussed WGUI’s peculiar choice of a Chancellor whose main credentials seem to come from being a right wing [...]