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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Academic Standards’
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
Are American Universities the Quislings of China?
As more American universities open campuses in China, they’re bending to the country’s censorship rules. Isaac Stone Fish reports from Beijing. (excerpted and adapted) UC Berkeley announced on Nov. 11 that it plans to open a campus in Shanghai. Stanford Center will open in P[...]
December 12th, 2011 - 2:14 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Can we sue for defamation?
BLACKWATER REBRANDS ITSELF AS “ACADEMI” from Huff Post An infamous company is attempting a complete brand makeover — again. The private security firm formerly known as Blackwater and most recently known as Xe has decided to change its name to Academi, according to The Washington Po[...]
Universities On Sale, Academic Principles Put Aside
Saudi Arabia Courts Foreign Academic Partners With Cash Professors see potential for research and pioneering ventures; critics warn that the kingdom should carry out internal reforms first The Chronicle This issue has bothered me for many years. The UW has also participated in building campuses in[...]
December 5th, 2011 - 10:05 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
Does the Seattle Times advocate blackmail?
Editorial in Times Lawmakers must protect education, ask for voter approval to save other programs SEN. Ed Murray has it right — that any ballot question asking voters to approve tax increases has to follow legislative action that fills the $2 billion shortfall. Otherwise, the Senate[...]
Cambridge Univ. Press.: Pay to read articles just like renting movies!
By Jennifer Howard Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2011, read at permalink. Will researchers pay for short-term access to journal articles? Cambridge University Press is about to find out. The publisher has just announced a rental program for articles from the more than 280 peer-reviewed[...]
December 2nd, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Hypocrisy
Big Publishers Buy British Library Access Rights
British Library Group Doesn’t Ditch Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell December 1, 2011, 12:41 pm By Jennifer Howard from the Chronicle A major British library group announced today that it has struck new deals with Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell, two of the largest publishers of academic journals. The gr[...]
Fisk University: To sell its birthright or just go broke?
From Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition. But it is unclear how quickly the historically black university in Nashville will be able [...]
December 1st, 2011 - 11:09 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Penn State: Where there is smoke, shouldn’t you look for fire?
Joe Paterno Advocated Special Treatment For Penn State Football Players: Report By SEANNA ADCOX 11/22/11 Huffington Post and AP, excerpts Asked …whether disciplinary cases at Penn State (other than the Sandusky affair)would be reviewed, an NCAA spokeswoman said she had nothing else to say a[...]
UW part of .4 billion dollar, four year mega effort in genomics.
NIH Plans $416-Million for Genomics Research The NIH will spend $416 million over the next four years in its version of “big science.” Most of this underwrites large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University i[...]