More good news on academic excellence from President Schill’s new team. Will Campbell has the story in the Emerald here. Back in the day the penalty for UO students caught drinking or smoking pot in the dorms was to take one of the Substance Abuse Prevention Program’s weekend courses. Rumor had it…
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That’s enough money to give 60 low-income students full-tuition scholarships for a year, by topping off their Pell grants. But instead our Legislature wants us to give it to administrators, to write “cultural competency” plans. HB 2864 is here: Who could possibly be opposed to spending other people’s money to preserve…
Perhaps he’s spending his time on Duck sports that pay him a bonus for “competing at the highest level of excellence.” Reporter Kenny Jacoby has the latest Duck athletic scandal in the Emerald, here: Read the story for the really disturbing quotes, and a link to the courageous letter from…
Building Occupants, Starting at the end of May, maintenance staff will be painting all hallways and performing work on hallway radiators in PLC. They will begin on the ground/basement level and hope to reach the 3rd floor by the end of summer. You can expect to see painting tarps, ladders,…
InsideHigherEd, here. Duke University was trying to do something different with a proposed new undergraduate curriculum, emphasizing less what students should study than how. But the plan was perhaps a little too different, and it’s been tabled until the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences faculty can reach a greater…
In the NYT here: LOS ANGELES — If you go by the odds, Sierra Williams shouldn’t be in college, let alone at a highly selective school like the University of Southern California. Many kids in her low-income neighborhood here don’t get to or through the 12th grade. Her single mother…
From the official IR website here. Undergrad minority enrollment has nearly doubled since 2005 to 27%, but the percentage of low-income Pell grant eligible students peaked at 26% in 2011, and has fallen slightly since.
This does not seem to include spending on the UMRP, probably about $1M a year, or spending by the colleges: Here’s a snippet of the 2015-16 Equity and Inclusion’s operations spending. From what I can tell none of it went to help students pay tuition. Outside consultants got $360K for “services and supplies” –…
That’s the official word from UO’s Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity office latest AA Plan here. Focusing only on minority tenure track faculty, UO in general has more minority faculty than the available pool of minority faculty, which AAEO defines here: Because of the unique and highly competitive requirements for employment within…
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According to Wikipedia, indentured servitude has been illegal in the US for quite a while: … Several Acts passed by the American and British governments helped foster the decline of indentures. The Passenger Vessels Act 1803, an Act of the UK Parliament which regulated travel conditions aboard ships, attempted to make…
It turns out that our administration’s fears of a Johnson Hall neo-Nazi occupation were a bit overblown. The Emerald has the report here, courtesy of the remarkably understated Max Thornberry. The Nazis got even fewer student spectators than a Duck baseball game.
Dear University of Oregon campus community, Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time in Salem talking with lawmakers about the urgent need for additional state funding for public higher education. Elected officials tell me they understand the critical importance of higher education to the future…
According to Google Scholar, ranked by # of citations: 1 Paul Slovic Decision Research and University of Oregon, Cited by 138270 2 Michael I. Posner Prof Emeritus of psychology University of Oregon, Cited by 113549 3 Mark Johnson Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon,…
From https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB481/A-Engrossed Lots of testimony from Pete Shepherd, who as Deputy AG did so much to destroy the promise of Dave Frohnmayer’s public records law – and famously lost the PERS case to the Oregonian, while working for Harrang et al. The new law, which comes out of AG Ellen Rosenblum…