2/21/2012: Not what was expected: Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that two highly respected University of Oregon faculty members have been selected to oversee the institution’s extensive academic affairs portfolio. Doug Blandy has been appointed senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Barbara Altman will serve as vice…
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2/20/2012: But it ain’t never gonna happen. Sam Stites has the story in the ODE.
2/20/2012: There’s a lot of misinformation about student-faculty ratios floating around. If you look at the number of students per tenure track faculty, you get this: All the data from UO institutional research. It’s ugly, so Jim Bean has been counting NTTFs, which makes us look much prettier. I’ve got…
2/20/2012: The figure and email below are from an anonymous correspondent. At UO there is a tiny correlation between a department’s average pay relative to their discipline and their research productivity relative to their discipline. You’d expect better ranking departments would be closer to AAU comparator pay. Nope, mostly it’s…
CAMPUS FORUM: OPEN DIALOGUE ON FACULTY UNIONIZATION Hosted by the University Senate (see senate.uoregon.edu/ for additional information)TUESDAY, FEB. 21, 20124 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom All members of the statutory faculty, which includes all tenure-track faculty (TTF) and non tenure-track faculty (NTTF), are strongly urged to attend this…
2/20/2011: UO news here. UO law here. Daily Emerald story here. From the Law School facebook: Memorial Tribute to Honor Professor Svitlana Kravchenko Please join us to honor the late Professor Svitlana Kravchenko of the University of Oregon School of Law on Friday, February 24. Svitlana’s husband, Professor John Bonine…
2/19/2012: I tend to focus on what Pat Kilkenny’s weird baseball obsession is costing UO in dollars. Kilkenny got the UO Foundation to loan athletics millions to build “PK Park” on a 6.25% ten year balloon loan, pledging future media revenues as collateral. But as Richard Sundt notes, the corruption…
2/19/2012: Columnist David Sarasohn: In the middle of the 1990s, when Oregon K-12 funding was a question of whether programs would be thrown overboard right away or the following year, Portland school superintendent Jack Bierwirth was asked why he had ever decided to come here. He explained that he’d been…
2/17/2012: I wish that UO’s CFO would give the faculty a honest talk about UO’s current spending and that our Provost would give a consult with the faculty about UO’s future budgeting priorities. But Jim Bean and Frances Dyke have never given us a clear data-based presentation of where they…
2/17/2012: UO needs to boost the number of grad students to stay in the AAU. But what disciplines? Not much point if they can’t get work in their field. Insidehighered reports on the job market for social science PhDs: … Using the same data (which may be incomplete as many…
2/16/2012: From the union organizer’s website here: How can faculty have a real voice in setting priorities? Thursday, February 16th4:00-5:30pm115 Lawrence Hear speakers address these critical areas: Howard Bunsis, a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University and Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP Dr. Bunsis, an expert in the analysis of…
2/15/2012: It’s a popular choice, though the stopping power of the .45 caliber round may strike some students and faculty as overkill for on-campus use. Invoice here, looks like a nice discount for buying 10 with 3 clips magazines each. No ammo or training yet.
That would be at UC-Berkeley: The Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics Financial Sustainability has been asked to: develop an understanding of the recent and current financial and competitive state of the Intercollegiate Athletics program; assess alternative approaches to promptly putting the IA program on a financially sustainable course; assess…
2/15/2012: The Council for Aid to Education announced the results of its authoritative Voluntary Support of Education survey today. Chronicle story here. On average, giving to higher ed is up 8.2%. Giving to the UO Foundation is down from $121 million for the 2009-10 FY to $93 million for 2010-11…
2/14/2012: From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Penn State has now begun to post documents about the scandal and about university operations in general (budgets, contracts) at http://openness.psu.edu/ Meanwhile here at UO we still don’t know what the Kelly/Lyles scandal will cost – just that the jocks have convinced Randy Geller that…