2/13/2012: I mostly agree that college sports has become “The New Plantation” and that it often seems that rule #1 for the NCAA is that “no black person can make money off college football”. Certainly not someone like Willie Lyles! But it wasn’t always like that – once college sports…
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2/13/2012: Memo from Lariviere to Dyke, Tripp. CC to Moffitt and Executive Leadership Team, here. 11/1/2011. No public notice on what is clearly a contentious issue. This is not trust-based community policing.
2/13/2012: Good story in the Chronicle on the NCAA / NYT blogging fight.
2/12/2012: At its heart the NCAA is a classic hiring cartel. College athletic departments agree among themselves to all pay the athletes a bare minimum, so that the bulk of the profits can be used for inflated salaries for the coaches, assistants, athletic directors, and of course the NCAA administrators.…
2/12/2012: Today’s lazy unfocused Oregonian editorial.
2/11/2012: My own HS transcript was a bimodal mix of A’s and D’s. So there’s something about the terms of this new scholarship that I really like. From Diane Dietz in the RG: Their scholarship is set up to help students — one from each high school in Eugene —…
2/11/2012: From Mitch Smith in Insidehighered.com: Arizona legislators are considering one bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards and another bill designed to protect conservative faculty members from discrimination in getting hired or tenured.
Updated 2/10/2012: Becky Metrick of the ODE has the scoop: The guns, which are being used solely for training purposes, were ordered back in November after Lariviere signed a directive that authorized the creation of an official police force. “Part of that document required DPS to acquire firearms for the…
2/9/2012: From HMHB “We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative of educational success than race,” said Sean F. Reardon, a Stanford University sociologist. Professor Reardon is the…
Updated: Comprehensive 2011 report on international students at UO available here. Thanks, reader. 2/9/2012: This year UO will have 2017 international students. They pay $27,853 each in regular session tuition and fees, plus say another $20,000 for housing, travel, summer, etc. Some are GTF’s, so let’s round both numbers down…
2/8/2012: That’s the word from the legislative session. Saul Hubbard in the RG. Looks like the study group will *not* include OUS or UO representation.
2/8/2012: Excellent story in the Chronicle on the Delta Cost Project on higher education, and their influence in the Obama administration and Congress. I started this blog back in 2009, after the furlough town hall where the administration tried to convince the faculty to take voluntary pay cuts. (They took…
2/8/2012: Berdahl’s handout from the city club debate. UO gets half as much per “fundable student” (which apparently means in-state student) as OSU. This does not adjust for the fact their students are in more expensive programs, OSU has extension responsibilities. We do not seem to be giving huge subsidies…
CAMPUS FORUMS: PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH Wednesday, February 8, 2012 *3 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom Hosted by the University Senate All members of the university community and public are welcome and encouraged to participate. ROBERT BERDAHL, Interim University President will address the university community regarding the presidential search and other…
2/6/2012: From the Guardian: In an unprecedented move, three serving African leaders and their families are under investigation in Paris over whether they embezzled state funds to acquire vast assets in France including bank accounts, Riviera villas and fleets of luxury cars. The clan of Gabon‘s late leader Omar Bongo…