Colon cancer has claimed the life of Elson Floyd, 59, who led WSU’s effort to get its own medical school, the Seattle Times reported Saturday night. Click here for story.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘WSU’
June 7th, 2015 - 8:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges
WSU’s president gets lavish pay
“Washington State University President Elson Floyd is the fourth-highest-paid public-college president in the nation” and his base salary “was the second-highest among presidents of the nation’s public colleges in 2014,” according to the Seattle Times. Elson made $725,000 [...]
March 25th, 2015 - 9:33 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Legislature okays WSU med school, but withholds initial funding
If WSU can raise the funds on its own, it makes sense to go ahead! “A nearly century-old restriction giving the University of Washington the exclusive right to operate a public medical school in the state of Washington was removed by the Legislature on Wednesday, opening the door for Was[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 4:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Legislature okays WSU med school
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1917, the Washington legislature divvied up academic responsibilities between the University of Washington and Washington State University. The UW got law, medicine, forestry, library sciences, and fisheries; WSU got agriculture, agricultural economics, and veterinary medi[...]
March 8th, 2015 - 6:41 pm § in The Ave Scene
More on The Cougar School of Medicine and PORK.
Over at the AAUP listserv, Professor Sharona Gordon asked a good question : . Who is it at WSU that wants a new medical school? Don’t they have shared governance? Is it the faculty and the administration? Do the students have a say? Is it just the board of regents? Can someone explain their logic?[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 11:57 pm § in America
The News Tribune on Creating a Cougar School of Medicine
The media war over where to spend state dollars on medical education continues in the pages of Tacoma’s News Tribune. Mikal Thomsen, a WSU graduate, writing at the explicit request of WSU, talks about his surviving a stroke and goes on to make the absurd claim that he might not have survived [...]
March 5th, 2015 - 5:40 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
So, Do The Cougars Want $14,000,000 a Year to Seed Fund Raising?
The key to this OP-ED in the Seattle Times is Mr. Gardner’s assertion that public money can stimulate private donations. Is this realistic for a Cougar School of Medicine? Special To Seattle Times As a vice president at Washington State University with a background in business and academia, [...]
March 1st, 2015 - 1:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
State Legislature Moves Cougar School of Medicine Forward!~
There are ONLY two reasons to support the WSU idea ..PORK and POLITICS. Despite that, Reuven Carlyle reports that the “House Appropriations Comm voted Friday to allow WSU to begin process of opening a medical school. I voted ‘no’ and here’s why: While I totally support their [...]
February 10th, 2015 - 12:28 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
A Religious Reason Not to Create a WSU School of Medicine
The Seattle Times reports that some legislators are worried that the proposed new WSU School of Medicine will be, in effect, a religious school limited by its association with Spokane’s Sacred Heart Hospital. Sacred Heart, of course is required to limit its practice in areas of reproductive [...]
Why Not Use WSU to Train Students for Service in the “Doc in The Box” clinics?
Here in Washington state our two research universities are having a fight. The University of Washington, located in Seattle, has what is rated as the number one program for primary-care and rural medicine. To a large extent the high rating results from the fact that the UW offers a degree that can b[...]