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- UO Dean Adriene Lim's disclosure... (13)
- Nobody Or Doug Park. Or Francis Dyke. Or Jamie Moffitt. Or Scott Coltrane. Or Dave Frohnmayer. Or all the JH admin sitting around an Ipad at... – Friday
- Board of Trustees posts pre-redacted... (1)
- Not licensed What if ... $200,000 a year Tim Clevenger had nothing to show for the $20,000,000 he plans to spend on branding? Page 7, http://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees1.wc-sites.uoregon.edu/files/field/image/Full%20BOT%20Meeting%20Notice%2C%20Agenda%20and%20Materials%20-%20March%202015.pdf – Friday
- UO drops counter-claim, but still... (74)
- Still clicking my heels Lawyers are always out to protect their clients. At some point the client needs to say, "thank you for advice, but we need to go... – Friday
- Not only that! Comments here and just above remind me of the primary reasons I withdrew from the UO Provost Search. I did not want to endure the... – Friday
- just different Well, that would certainly explain--at least in part--why Public Records won't give me the records I've been asking for and why they're lying about it. – Friday
- Of Course! UOM knows this and when the previous commenter noted “a federal criminal fraud investigation of faculty that prompted a state audit” the distinction between a... – Friday
- uomatters I don't know. – Friday
- just different I know of at least one instance where someone has engaged in exactly the practices described in the ION audit report, although possibly not with... – Friday
- uomatters So, you are accusing Blackmer of shading his audit. – Friday
- just different Doug Park is the most recent in a succession of GCs who were bad for UO. They've all been far more visible than GCs should... – Friday
- Union proposes 7% + 6%... (14)
- dog not rhetorical at all (dog's are not sophisticated enough to know what rhetorical even means) Yes, it does depend on the sequencing, hence the source... – Friday
- Jack Straw Man Actually, Dog, that question was asked and answered at the bargaining session today. Yes, of course they're aware of it, and are hoping to work... – Thursday
- Three-Toed Sloth You may be sure, effing Dog, that they do. – Thursday
- that effing Dog again Doe the Union realize that, in principle, application of external equity can produce internal equity issues? Example: If some one really got a 5% raise... – Thursday
- Jack Straw Man Dropped in to watch bargaining for about 20 minutes this morning, all I could spare. My first time doing so. Just want to thank the... – Thursday
- that effing Dog again well let's do a simple Economic Straw Man in 2003 the ratio of Admin to Faculty is 1.77 let's assume over the last 12 years... – Thursday
- another union member Meanwhile, classified staff fall further and further behind. Hey! We're bargaining now, too! – Thursday
- Carla McNelly, President, SEIU Local 085 SEIU Higher Education bargaining with USSE (University Shared Services Enterprise, formerly known as OUS) Thursday and Friday at the Riverfront Research Park. Rally Friday, 12:15pm-12:45pm,... – Thursday
- What's Gottfredson's PAGIA up to? (1)
- anon Good move. I look forward to this. – Thursday
- UO Board Trustee Susan Gary... (19)
- uomatters Thanks. Good to know who's in charge of the "Faculty Trustee". – Thursday
- acrobat The metadata in the .pdf of the "third" memo that was circulated today (the first one that many faculty have seen, except here of course),... – Thursday
- uomatters You win ;) – Wednesday
- cynic Sure, I can be as pedantic as you. ;) e·lect (ĭ-lĕkt′) tr.v. e·lect·ed, e·lect·ing, e·lects 1. To select by vote for an office or for... – Wednesday
- uomatters Paris was not elected. Margie Paris (Law) nominated her, and John Kitzhaber (former Governor) then sent her name to the OR Senate, and they appointed... – Wednesday
- cynic "... we're all trying to figure things out as we go." Right. Who is this "all" she speaks of? Mrs. Balmer? Emperor Chuck? It's no... – Wednesday
- Beavers to Ducks: Our economic... (9)
- eugenenative So the UO is the "flagship" of the one-campus University of Oregon system? Congratulations, I guess. – Wednesday
- Drew (I don't know why my last submission of this comment didn't show up, but here it is again.) So let me get this straight. You... – Tuesday
- Fishwrapper Yes, the College Board, that august body that bestows its determination of flagship status on name recognition polling as much as, or arguably more than,... – Tuesday
- Drew A couple of corrections * OUS no longer governs UO, OSU, or PSU * It's not just UO and Wikipedia claiming we're a flagship university.... – Tuesday
- Fishwrapper That's a lot of NikeU swoosh shirts being sold... – Tuesday
- Ben Yet despite OUS insistence that there is no flagship, UO recruiting materials still lie about it, making wikipedia impossible to correct, resulting in countless uneducated... – Tuesday
- elitist oregonian When you say "disconcerting to the state's flagship" do you mean OSU? I'm confused. – Tuesday
- Eugenenative The State of Oregon has no "Flagship" University. – Tuesday
- Things our administration has money... (4)
- Nobody I thought changing security to police was going to save a bunch of money. At least that was the lie the idea was sold on.... – Wednesday
- Oryx Exactly. This is outrageous. Is the administration seriously claiming that it can't hire an assistant campus police chief for less than $139k? Is there such... – Tuesday
- anonymous "homegrown, alpha cluster of companies" Alpha cluster-fuck. I hope there is a major boycott- due to the counter lawsuit of the rape survivor. As in... – Tuesday
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- Mullens sends Duck cheerleaders to hit up Uncle Phil for more cash 02/27/2015
- Board of Trustees posts pre-redacted dockets for March 4-6 meetings. 02/27/2015
- UO Dean Adriene Lim’s disclosure of circulation records violated university policy 02/27/2015
- Today: UO Coalition to protest admin efforts to silence sex assault survivors 02/26/2015
- UO drops counter-claim, but still blames survivor for “damage to a good man’s reputation”, and claims *she* is discouraging rape reporting. 02/26/2015
- Union proposes 7% + 6% to get faculty to Lariviere target. Bargaining Session IV: Economics, Thursday 2/26 10AM. 02/26/2015
- What’s Gottfredson’s PAGIA up to? 02/26/2015
- UO Board Trustee Susan Gary will allow NTTFs to meet with Trustees 02/25/2015
- Beavers to Ducks: Our economic impact is bigger than yours. 02/24/2015
- UO President’s Office staff to face discipline for deleting documents from Archives 02/24/2015
- Number of times people have asked me “not to post this yet” 02/24/2015
- Things our administration has money for: Sports Products and Cops 02/24/2015
- Emerald: Parking tickets subsidize Matt Court parking garage 02/23/2015
- UO reports sexual assault and attempt last week 02/23/2015
- Paul Omundson on UO Board’s failed search plan – endorses Coltrane 02/22/2015
- No way in hell Doug Park will get the permanent General Counsel job 02/22/2015
- UO Student Senate rejects Ducks’ attempt to raise mandatory ticket fee 02/21/2015
- Jon Krakauer sues over use of FERPA to hide rape records 02/21/2015
- Strategic planning workshop #3, Monday 1-3PM at Longhouse 02/19/2015
- RG Editors link Kitzhaber’s and UO’s public records failures 02/19/2015
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In partial equilibrium results, Hansen, Marcotte and Hemelt, and Hansen and Marcotte find increasing instructional days is more cost effective than reducing the class size. But the existing research has examined changing the school calendar holding teachers fixed, or changing teachers holding school calendars fixed.
My thoughts, why not cut back on other costly programs shown to have no benefits (most job training programs, etc.).