uomatters ... made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. – Monday
Typical OA Totally believable. After all, you are much too polite and respectful to denigrate anyone. – Monday
Dog What, aren't we already in a new dark age? Is further sinking possible? – Monday
uomatters This post was not meant to denigrate the work of OAs, without whom UO would sink into the abyss of... – Monday
Anas clypeata I see a 0.4% increase in Faculty and a 1.0% increase in the total of the remaining lines. Nice headline,... – Friday
Data So increased the number of OAs within his personal sub-unit from 7 to 16? Do we know what for? – Friday
apt too bad "last hired, first fired" doesn't apply to all these new OA positions. what's up with the growth of... – Friday
Dread OA Roberts Disclaimer: I'm one of the bloated 11%. Can someone provide more background? Is the shrinking proportion of faculty this year... – Friday
Old Gray Mare And that can be done perfectly well without the LMS. Return assignments in a timely manner and teach the class... – Friday
heraclitus That's a fair question, but it would also be good to hear an intellectual justification for _not_ using the LMS... – Thursday
curious duckling Can somebody please provide an intellectual justification for requiring the use of LMS for core ed courses? "1.3 WHEREAS Other... – Thursday
woof On the Internet, on one knows if Dog is joking. – Wednesday
oldtimer Yes, right direction. Would be nice to know details of funding. One of the sleights of administrative hand is to... – Wednesday
Dog And hey, there is actually useful info in the Senate notes, some of which should have been published here as... – Wednesday
Dog well I guess this eliminates all occupants of PLC as surviving members to give grades, I mean really, who is... – Wednesday
honest Uncle Bernie heteronormative, sexist, cis-gendered, patriarchal, trans-phobic white male privileged! Classist and racist too. You need retraining from the equity and confusion... – Friday
former squire Always knew Prof UOM was a closet sexist, er, ah, classy chivalrous gentleman. – Thursday
Sun Tzu Ah, yet another attempt to quantify faculty performance. Most of us don't remember that John Moseley, when he was our... – Tuesday
Elephant Seal good news [The UOM Editor: Your comment has been rejected because you failed to connect this good news about elephant... – Monday
St Francis Would love to read some good news honest uncle Bernie. Provide a link or two. Thanks – Monday
honest Uncle Bernie I guess UO's academic and financial status have already improved so much after several years of these guys, right? Look... – Monday
Dog about dinosaurs as teachers ... https://www.jstor.org/stable/1982016?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents students like Mary should be required to read, er I mean skim, that document – Monday
uomatters Thanks, oldtimer. Quoting from this paper, Results show that there are statistically significant and sizable differences in student achievement across... – Monday
oldtimer Evidence on new versus old blood in the classroom from a randomized experiment? Teaching experience is negatively related to student... – Monday
uomatters Thanks, this seems like a pretty balanced take on the admin mistakes that led to the financial problems, and on... – Monday
duck quills For another take, see the Quillette piece by a WSU econ instructor (written before the strike ended): https://quillette.com/2019/02/09/the-meaning-of-the-self-destructive-strike-at-wsu/ – Monday
Peter Keyes Amazon recently completed The Spheres: https://www.seattlespheres.com/explore-the-building Apple has built the gigantic "Spaceship": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoH0A4QlN6Y Facebook hired Frank Gehry for this new... – Sunday
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