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• Oligarchs Push Ohio To Change Licensure Rules to Suit TFA and KIPP

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 137
  (Photo by Brooke LaValley for Post-Dispatch) With billions in tax-credited corporate cash and taxpayer money behind the total compliance apartheid testing camps of KIPP and the KIPP knockoffs, it is easy to buy stories that make the utterly ridiculous sound entirely sublime. See todays effort in the Columbus ...
  2 days ago

• More post...

  
  Field Day — Authority: 433
  Another nice Christmas card. This one from the Tenant Farmers Association .
  6 days ago

• AIFF’s stand forces states to drop overage players

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) After allegations of age fudging in the zonal rounds of the under-16 National Football Championship for the Coca Cola Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy, some states have surprisingly changed players in their team for the ongoing final round.Tripura, which won the North East qualifiers, made 10 changes ...
  1 week ago

• GET BLOG FILES WHILE YOU CAN

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Just as a reminder, readers who think they may want some files that have been uploaded to the blog need to get them on or before December 15th, this sites last day on-line.  To find postings about any particular subject just use the Lijit search engine in the sidebar. 
  2 weeks ago

• HUFFINES RESIGNS AS CHAIR OF UT BOARD OF REGENTS

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  James Huffines, the leader of the band that still refuses to commit to building the new hospital tower in Galveston, has thrown down his baton, although he says hell remain on the board of regents.  The Blogmeister has to wonder if this wont help Galvestons cause vis-a-vis the tower just a tad.  The Blogmeister also ...
  2 weeks ago

• REPORT ON AAUP REPORT

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  The following is an excerpt from a 12/7/09 e-mail from the American Association of University Professors in response to a Blogmeister query: The investigating committee visited Galveston in early October, and itis in the process of drafting its report. Given that the draft will gothrough a couple revision stages, ...
  2 weeks ago

• TOM JOHNSON RESIGNS AS TFA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Tom Johnson, who began working with the Texas Faculty Association in 2007, has resigned as the TFA executive director effective 12/31/09.  The Blogmeister does not know if TFA plans to issue an amplifying press release or not.  If it does, I will post it on this site. 
  2 weeks ago

• A LOOK BACK AT TILLOTSON SPEECH, UTMB, AND UT: WHATS CHANGED?

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Back on February 1, 2009, over 10 months ago, Dolph Tillotonson, the Galveston County Daily News publisher, the speech linked below.  As the blog reader who sent me this link asked, what has changed between then and now?  For instance, are we any closer to knowing--for certain--where UT will build the new hospital ...
  3 weeks ago

• BLOG GOING DOWN DECEMBER 15TH

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Having begun its work of dragging administrators actions into the sunlight a little over three years ago when Dr. Charles Zucker was the Executive Director of TFA, the sun is setting on this blog. On December 15, 2009, the Blogmeister will make his last post, pack his bags, and move on to his next TFA-related ...
  3 weeks ago

• UTMB SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE SETTLES

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Alleged harassment or not, cutting a fellows salary just about in half is a not-so-subtle shove toward the door.  With UTs position that tenure protects a position and not salary, this sort of behavior can happen to faculty, as well.  The Blogmeister has been involved in at least two cases in which drastic salary ...
  3 weeks ago

• WORKPLACE BULLYING AWARENESS ON THE RISE

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Most workers, at one time or another, have been the object of a workplace bullys attention, and it is  baffling to the Blogmeister why management almost always fails to take action in view of the organizational costs of bullying.  By definition, bullies, most of whom are bosses, are insecure and often incompetent , ...
  4 weeks ago

• UTMB VP BEN RAIMER GARNERS TFA "BURNING PANTS AWARD"

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Over the past three years or so, the Blogmeister has been admittedly stingy when bestowing the prestigious "Burning Pants Award."  To earn this distinction, an administrator has had to engage in exceptionally meritorious meretriciousness.  Such is the case with UTMB Vice President Ben Raimer and his recent claim to ...
  4 weeks ago

• PRIVATE AUTOPSIES A GROWING INDUSTRY: BUYER BEWARE

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Image via Wikipedia I know. This story isnt about UT or any college or university, but its something people working at a medical university should know. Grieving families disturbed by no regulation of private autopsies | wfaa.com | Health News Prior is a registered nurse who has witnessed autopsies and knows ...
  4 weeks ago

• DAILY NEWS REPORTS ON UTMB LEAGUE CITY LEASE

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  Image via Wikipedia Blog readers are already aware of this acquisition.  Still, this would have been a good time for the Daily New s to provide new information in the form of a report on any progress or, more likely, the lack thereof , toward building the hospital tower that the Legislature intended to be ...
  4 weeks ago

• WORK FOR A BULLY?

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 127
  The Blogmeister has run across many bullies in supervisory positions over the years.  They make life for employees absolutely miserable and generally get away with it if, for no other reason, management refuses to act. If you think you may be working for one, click on the highlighted text to see a video on the ...
  4 weeks ago

• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 518
  Wall Street Journal attacks Ford Foundation And yet the Ford press release contains not one mention of charter schools, vouchers, merit pay or even Teach for America...One might have hoped that Fords administrators would have looked at some of the real innovation being done by philanthropies such as Gates or the ...
  5 weeks ago

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