A new study at the University of Washington will study the effects of marijuana use of expectant mothers on their unborn children, which raises questions on whether this is the right research to conduct on human beings.
A retired University of Washington professor wrote a letter to the editor on climate change and said that having “one less child” would be good for Mother Earth.
Six universities announced a public affairs diversity alliance, which is meant to mentor students to become faculty members in public affairs departments.
Students at the University of Washington were offended and upset at a lecturer’s opinion editorial that attempted to explain why women select careers other than coding.
A lecturer at the University of Washington saw steep backlash to an essay he wrote, which talked about how women choose not to go into the technology industry as it is a choice of theirs.
Economist Walter Williams has called education schools the ghettos of universities and, like some neighborhoods that might be described that way, they resist improvement even when their deterioration is obvious to everyone outside their borders.
When academics do not jump on the bandwagon of favored academic theories, do not expect them to get much play in the media, or tenure at their universities, or, at least in previous administrations, grants from the federal government.
