Duck AD Rob Mullens has shown quite the talent for signing expensive long term contracts just before Duck coaches start to lose. But Horton peaked years ago. His players won some sort of NCAA championship in 2012, so Mullens gave him the sweetheart contract below. All downhill since. This year the Ducks aren’t even ranked…
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InsideHigherEd has a review: Michael Lewis’s 2003 book, Moneyball — later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt — tells the story of how predictive analytics transformed the Oakland Athletics baseball team and, eventually, baseball itself. Data-based modeling has since transcended sport. It’s used in hiring investment bankers, for example.…
12/19/2016 update: Still no update from the UO administration on Professor Shurtz’s suspension or their investigation of her. Meanwhile FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has this: Student Cleared of Baseless Charges from Anti-Lynching Art Display ROCK HILL, S.C., Dec. 19, 2016—A Winthrop University student was found not responsible…
12/18/2016: Day 5: We’re now among the lucky 90% of Eugene residents with electricity. It’s nice. Thank you IBEW. And the suspicious red oak is roped to two others that lean away from the kitchen. Thank you Cummings Tree Service. 12/17/2016: Going into day 4, I’m thinking a bit of Islay cut with ice covered…
Diane Dietz in the RG: The University of Oregon is awaiting the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in the new year with a disconcerting level of uncertainty about his plans for federal funding of research. The UO relies on about $100 million a year in federal grants out of $700…
Oh wait, these are tree danger zones. Never mind.
From: University of Oregon Subject: UOAlert!: Weather Hazards 12-14-16 Date: December 14, 2016 at 4:22:25 PM PST To: “[email protected]” Reply-To: University of Oregon December 14, 2016 – 4:19 pm Please use caution when departing campus this evening. Some tree hazards have been reported on campus. Caution tape is being placed…
Mateo Sundberg’s Op-Ed is on the Daily Emerald website here: Over one year ago, the Black Student Task Force released a list of twelve demands for the University of Oregon administration to address campus issues surrounding diversity and tolerance. One of the demands, demand number six, was a request for the…
Sorry, long post, which includes a letter on internal threats to the principle of shared governance from Professor Emeritus of Biology Frank Stahl, and information on the 2012 threat from the administration to dissolve the UO Senate and Faculty Assembly. Five years ago on Dec 15th 2011 the UO Faculty Assembly ratified…
Thanks to a commenter for forwarding this email. Dear All, I’m writing to update you about changes and developments in the AAEO office. Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of matters brought to the AAEO office and a corresponding increase in the…
Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch recruited a panel of 12 student newspaper sports editors, including the Daily Emerald’s Kenny Jacoby, to ask a few questions about covering big-time college sports. Here: Q: Has a school administrator/athletic department official ever threatened to take away your credentials? If yes, please describe in detail what happened Allentuck:…
Nicholas Kristof is the son of two PSU professors and grew up on a farm in Oregon. A few years ago we got him to come to campus and talk to our SAIL students. He is arguably the most liberal of the NY Times’s columnists, although it’s tough to top Krugman. Here’s his…
That would be the University of Virginia. The WaPo has the details here. He claimed the #blacklivesmatter movement which protests illegal killings by the police was like the KKK which committed lynchings. He learned the hard way how stupid, offensive, and racist this claim is, and he asked to be taken out of…
http://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/eac_notice_agenda_and_materials_120916.pdf
From InsideHigherEd: The number of Ph.D. recipients rose by 1.9 percent in 2015, to 55,006 from 54,003 in 2014 — the smallest increase since 2011. Nearly 64 percent of them were U.S. citizens or permanent residents, up by about one percentage point from 2014. But the proportion of doctorate recipients who are…