Arkansas Blog

Next time you learn about a "poet" getting "supplemented" in Arkansas please announce it in
TWO INCH LETTERS.

Let's extend the 'supplement' inquiry to Walton College of Education Union Busting.

There's likely a few other departments which need checking too.

I guess this means Arkansas needs a conceal and educate permit process.

If anybody on that campus had any shame left Mr. Liu would be getting a serious dressing down before the sun set, but we know that campus has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walton family interests and any expectation of shame just shows how naive we still are.

Did Big Time MBA Programs Helped to Bring the Economy to This Point?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15school.html

"The master's of business administration, a gateway credential throughout corporate America, is especially coveted on Wall Street; in recent years, top business schools have routinely sent more than 40 percent of their graduates into the world of finance.

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Still, there have been signs that all is not well in business education. A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006 in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education, found that 56 percent of all M.B.A. students cheated regularly - more than in any other discipline. The authors attributed that to "perceived peer behavior" - in other words, students believed everyone else was doing it.

God, the changes since the Liar-in-Chief got selected by the Supremes.

I taught in the fur-lined womb of Neocon and die-hard Busheviks supporters of Oklahoma State. While we sometimes had football players that played for four years without a degree (or it turned out literacy), everyone from the President down to the part-time manure shovellers in the dairy barn had their salary published.

Then I worked for the state where all the hired personnel had their salaries and bonuses published.

What a crock! They must be frightened of everyone know how much they get for demonstrating the Peter Principle.

All UA System faculty have to report outside income earned annually, and there's a cap on how much extra can be earned. The problem, of course, is that accurate reporting seems to be on the honor system...