Public Employees Benefits Board [Washington State Health Care Authority]

Faculty Retirement and Benefits at Other Universities

Faculty Representation:

• AAUP, UW Chapter
• AAUP
• Washington Education Association
• Communications Workers of America: Higher Education

Publishing Technology, Tenure & Promotion

• Teaching, technology, and tenure [http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i24/24a02501.htm] Online teaching, peer-reviewed Web sites, electronic course enhancements, multimedia teaching tools--are these a boon or bane to tenure? Faculty and administrators share their experiences of how teaching with technology counts--or not--in the academic-promotion process.
• OnTechNews (UW) [News on technology issues for the UW community]
• Create Change: A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication [www.arl.org/create/home.html]
• Scholarly Communication: New Models for a New Millennium [UW/HUB, Friday, March 3, 2000]
  • A Selection of Relevant Articles and Links
  • Permission to Use Submitted Work [Haptics-e THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF HAPTICS RESEARCH http://www.haptics-e.org]
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market. SPARC introduces new solutions to scientific journal publishing, facilitates the use of technology to expand access, and partners with publishers that bring top-quality, low-cost research to a greater audience. SPARC strives to return science to scientists.

• Social Science Research Network Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

• ELSSS, the ELectronic Society for Social Scientists is a not-for-profit organisation aimed at solving the ever deepening crisis in scholarly and scientific communication created by the pricing policies of some commercial publishers that have forced libraries in the developed world to cut their journal portfolios and to slash their book collection and that have priced developing and transition economies out of the knowledge loop altogether.
  • Review of Economic Theory [to be launched in the Spring of 2003, aims to be a first-rate theory journal, with standards comparable to those currently used at the Journal of Economic Theory. The Review of Economic Theory is endorsed by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).]

• GAWC - World Cities The papers we mount as a Bulletin are 'final products' in that the authors, in their professional judgement, have considered them ready for submission... Of course, some may fail to impress referees and be rejected and nearly all will be revised before publication.... A newly submitted paper will be designated (A) which may be replaced by subsequent revised versions designated (B), (C) and so on. Hence readers will be able to identify updated versions of papers they have previously used.

• Tenure Issues. "This is a web page that contains information on places where tenure is under attack or serious review."
• REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ELECTRONIC PROMOTION AND TENURE (Rutgers University, May 1997)
• Tenure and Technology: New Values, New Guidelines
• More on Noble

Assessment & Evaluation:

• Welcome to Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. [We produce three different software Programs to help deter and detect plagiarism]
• Teaching Portfolios
• Program Evaluation
• New UW study grades state's high schools Survey focuses on performance of freshmen ; Seattle Times, Nov. 15, 1996; by Marsha King "A new study by the UW shows for the first time how students from Washington's high schools perform in specific subject areas during their first year at the university. The study also compares the grade-point averages of freshmen from each high school with the performance of freshmen as a whole. The UW produced the study to give high schools more detailed information about how well their students perform and to assess the adequacy of students' preparation for higher education."

Faculty Peer Evaluation:

• Report from the Committee to Assess Teaching Evaluation Methods [Florida Atlantic University]
• Faculty peer review: Easier said than done, (Dan) Bernstein says

UW Geography Department (History) (Author: J. Velikonja)

NIH Guide: REQUIRED EDUCATION IN THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS; Release Date: June 5, 2000 (Revised August 25, 2000)

Locate Research Money on the WWW

• ROYALTY RESEARCH FUND

UW Travel policies and procedures

General Retirement Resources (for UW, King County & Puget Sound)

Executive Ethics Board lifts ban on de minimis use SEATTLE, Apr. 13, 1998 - The state Executive Ethics Board voted unanimously to lift the prohibition on occasional personal use of state computers by executive branch employees under certain conditions. The change was filed with the Office of the Code Reviser and will be effective on April 27, 1998.

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Diversity & Outreach Programs:

• University of Washington
• DO-IT Program [Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (University of Washington)]
• MOSAIC [Multicultural Organization of Students Actively Involved in Change (Graduate Students, University of Washington)]
• Dream Of Diversity Still Aive at UW Ruckus (UW), 1999; by Roy Chan

  Affirmative action in the UW may be dead, but the efforts to bring more minority students to campus are not,...

• Student Outreach Programs [University of Washington]

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University Salaries (Examples):

• UW to pay $950,000 for surgeon to leave; Seattle Times, Saturday, July 27, 2002, By Steve Miletich, Seattle Times business reporter H. Richard Winn, the acclaimed University of Washington neurosurgeon who pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, will receive at least $950,000 and up to $3.7 million for resigning from the university.

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• Governance & the Future of the University:

  • Learning For Life: Report of the 2020 Commission on the Future of Post-Secondary Education [Washington State, November 1998] || Higher-ed panel suggests alternatives to new university Seattle Times, Wednesday, November 11, 1998 by Roberto Sanchez Washington must do everything it can to serve the swelling ranks of college students - everything, that is, except build another university, according to a governor's commission on higher education. The Governor's 2020 Commission on the Future of Higher Education issued its final report yesterday, outlining one vision of how to provide a college education to Washington's growing student masses.
  • State's higher education at a crossroads: AN open letter to Gov. Gary Locke and the 2020 Commission on the Future of Higher Education Seattle Times, Monday, June 22, 1998, by University of Washington faculty members "These are troubling times for the University of Washington and for higher education in Washington state. Our state's future depends upon providing increased access to affordable, high-quality public education. But there are signs that those charged with designing the future of our community colleges and universities are heading in disturbing directions...."
  • The future of higher education: New realities for universities, Seattle Times, Sunday, June 14, 1998, by Wallace D. Loh, Special to The Times "At the cusp of a new century, American higher education faces an epochal transition. New realities are reshaping it and nearly every other societal institution...". Wallace D. Loh is director of the governor's Executive Policy Office. The views expressed here are personal and do not represent those of the governor. They were presented in the Rembe Endowed Lecture at the University of Washington Law School on May 21.
  • UW's slide is about more than money Seattle Times, Friday, March 20, 1998; by Alfred Runte "AS president of the University of Washington, Richard L. McCormick maintains that its erosion, recently symbolized by the departure of Richard White, is due principally to the lack of funding... As usual, that is barely half the story. The deeper, more troubling problems are not just about "the money." ..."
  • Richard White's departure a sober warning for UW Seattle Times, Friday, March 6, 1998 by Richard L. McCormick DAVID Brewster's thoughtful column of Feb. 20 makes clear the loss we will suffer when Professor Richard White leaves the University of Washington history department next fall for a new position at Stanford.
  • White's exit to Stanford says volumes about UW Seattle Times, Friday, February 20, 1998 by David Brewster HISTORY professor Richard White, ... has accepted an offer from Stanford... His move is a terrible loss... his decision... flows from serious anxiety about the future of UW.... the UW's "failure to create an undergraduate culture." White is bothered by the number of students... who are "not sympathetic to the goals of higher education, who come in hostile to the university." Enormous lecture classes, the absence of contact with professors, the rarity of independent research, UW focus on professional schools all compound the problem. But the heart of the matter is the state's dubious arrangement with community colleges. ...White's third factor is the business mentality .... When Gov. Gary Locke... named a high-level commission to rethink higher education... he felt the committee, chaired by business leaders from Weyerhaeuser and Costco, evidenced "no real.. understanding for the university..."
  • Group gives state low marks in history, geography teaching Seattle Times, February 23, 1998 by Jolayne Houtz Washington receives two Fs for the quality of its academic standards in history and geography in a new national survey of learning standards that found most states' standards lacking in rigor and clarity.
    • FORDHAM REPORT: "State Geography Standards" by Susan Munroe and Terry Smith Volume 2, Number 2 February 1998

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  Educational Technology Issues:

  • MIT to offer free course materials online Seattle Times, April 05, 2001, by The Associated Press and Chicago Tribune CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- At a time when online knowledge can be a valuable commodity, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to offer nearly all its course materials on the Internet for free. The $100 million project aims to make information from MIT's 2,000 courses accessible to everyone within 10 years. The Web site will include lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments.
  • Faculty Survey [HERI/UCLA]
  • Tech digest: School rules; Seattle Times Sunday, April 11, 1999 Two reports out last week warned colleges and universities to temper their zeal for the rapidly growing online-education industry, saying that effectiveness and impact are unclear.
  • New software replaces teacher as essay grader; Seattle Times, Monday, October 19, 1998; by Linda Perlstein The Washington Post "Rousselin's essay was graded not by his professor, Peter Foltz, but by the computer program Foltz helped design. The technology represents one of the first major efforts in the country that employs computers to evaluate the content of a student's essay, rather than simply check its spelling, grammar or adherence to rules of style."
  • State's higher-ed needs require creative solutions ; Seattle Times, Wednesday, August 19, 1998 by Don Carlson, Guest columnist AS the chair of the House Higher Education Committee in the state Legislature, ... I have read with great interest some recent articles written by University of Washington professors and others criticizing the Legislature and Gov. Gary Locke for "underfunding" higher education. They also expressed concerns about using computers and other technology to replace traditional college campuses. I feel it is necessary to respond to these concerns.
  • Poll: Use technology for college expansion; Seattle Times, Sunday, August 2, 1998; by Roberto Sanchez "...Washingtonians would rather use technology to increase access to college than build campuses. The survey, which was commissioned by Gov. Gary Locke's 2020 Commission on the Future of Higher Education, said 92.7 percent of respondents think technology can be used to open more seats at the state's colleges. By contrast, 61.4 percent think the state needs to build more campuses to expand access to college." [2020 Commission Survey Results]
  • UW profs fear high tech might supplant classrooms Seattle Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1998 by Roberto Sanchez Worried that the state is buying into a technological future for higher education that could come at the expense of classroom teaching, University of Washington professors have launched an offensive of their own.
  • Internet access opens door to term paper plagiarism, Seattle Times, Sunday, June 8, 1997 [by Peter Applebome, New York Times] || [See also: Cheat Net || A HREF="http://www.collegepapers.com/">The College Paper Company Do You Want That " A " Paper? We Research And Write Original College Papers.]
  • Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education; by David F. Noble [October, 1997]

    Recent events at two large North American universities signal dramatically that we have entered a new era in higher education, one which is rapidly drawing the halls of academe into the age of automation. In mid-summer the UCLA administration launched its historic "Instructional Enhancement Initiative" requiring computer web sites for all of its arts and sciences courses by the start of the Fall term, the first time that a major university has made mandatory the use of computer telecommunications technology in the delivery of higher education.

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• Faculty Evaluation & Tenure Issues:
  • Will new commission attack profs' tenure? Seattle Times, Tuesday, February 3, 1998 by Roberto Sanchez "A new gubernatorial commission charged with planning the future of public higher education may also raise the blood pressure of university faculty a few notches."
  • Easy professors get the best grades in study by Roberto Sanchez Seattle Times, Friday, Dec. 5, 1997 ... The university takes those evaluations seriously, ... using them as a factor to determine everything from the professor's raises to his or her tenure... But new research ... suggests that the current system of evaluations is flawed - and tells a lot more about how easy a class is, or how easily the professor grades, than it does about how well he or she does as a teacher.

    In fact, according to professors Anthony Greenwald and Gerald Gillmore, the current system may encourage instructors to give students light workloads and high grades, because that will lead to higher marks on the evaluation.

    "Instructors get discouraged from doing the things that are highly demanding because they tend to result in low ratings," said Greenwald....

  • Minutes of Council on Instructional Quality (FCIQ) March 14, 1997 The chair explained that the chair of the Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs has been receiving messages from faculty who are concerned that student teaching evaluations are now available on the World Wide Web.

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  Academic Freedom:

  • Lynne Cheney-Joe Lieberman Group Puts Out a Blacklist Published on Thursday, December 13, 2001 in the San Jose Mercury News by Roberto J. Gonzalez AN aggressive attack on freedom has been launched upon America's college campuses. Its perpetrators seek the elimination of ideas and activities that place Sept. 11 in historical context, or critique the so-called war on terrorism.

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  • Termpapers-on-File

  • A&S Perspectives Index of Articles

  • Worried about a commercialized university?