From the official comment-free CAS blog: Thinking About CAS » Moving Forward in a Time of Uncertainty April 7, 2017 On the evening of Presidential election, I immediately began to wonder, “What will I tell the College tomorrow?” The next morning, in front of all the CAS department heads and…
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Max Thornberry has the story here.
Dylan Darling has the story in the RG here.
And reels in another $10M for the academic side, thanks to Tim and Mary Boyle, and Marilyn and Gerry Cameron.
4/4/2017 update, in the SJ here: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A state agency has dropped its lawsuit against a weekly Oregon newspaper that sought public records about a man charged in the kidnapping and killing of his ex-wife. … After Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum ordered the review board to…
InsideHigherEd has the story on SUNY-Buffalo here. At UO, Duck baseball sells about $300K in tickets, and sucks about $5M a year out of our budget for expenses and allocated administrative costs – enough to buy a healthy chunk of academic excellence:
Thanks to a friend for sending me a link to this story by Kurt Streeter, about his father Mel Streeter. Read it all and the obit below, these are just snippets: … My dad, who grew up in Riverside, California, wasn’t just the fourth black athlete to ever suit up…
InsideHigherEd has the story. I’m no art history professor, but the resemblance is a bit unnerving – down to the hair and glasses: David Wilder, 61, was killed by a shooting in Cleveland when he was caught in the crossfire as three other men engaged in what authorities called “a running vehicular…
On their editorial page here. But given that they don’t seem to be able to get their facts about the match requirement straight without Diane Dietz around, you should probably discount this appropriately. Or so I hope.
Matthew Kish has the details in the Portland Business Journal here.
The NYT headline, particularly scary for schools like UO that rely on international student tuition: Amid ‘Trump Effect’ Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants Economist Tyler Cowen has the real story here: … Here is what the opening of the survey itself said: 39% of responding institutions…
Last year it was UO #78, Lewis & Clark #92, and Willamette #132 in the US News rankings. This year it’s UO #86, Lewis & Clark #100, and Willamette #142. If only UO Law had the sort of money that Dana Altman has been throwing at Duck athletic excellence.
Keep your fingers crossed. Andrew Theen has the story in the Oregonian here. More on OLIS here.
Someone wants to know. Here’s the public records request, now more than two weeks old: Requester: Snur, Carrie Organization: Capital News Service Initial Request Date: 03/06/2017 Status: Requesting/Reviewing Records This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request copies of the following records: Documents including or…