2/17/2013: Time to get real. Gottfredson’s not going to fire Bean. He’s not even going to fire Geller. It’s up to us faculty. Sure, we could fight with conventional weapons, like Tublitz’s senate resolution. But that would take years. No, this requires a really stupid and futile gesture. And So…
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I just came across this link to a blog post about the scandal at Penn State, written last year by the CnC professor that I have just put under so much scrutiny. An excerpt: To this day, universities justify college football on the grounds that it builds character, but all the…
The UO Senate TC charge and membership is here. The committee met this morning. Reporters from the Register Guard, Daily Emerald, and the Commentator were present and voiced their opinion that the public records process at UO was not functioning well, that the fees were discouraging legitimate public inquiry, and…
Rob Moseley has the story in the RG. Part of the cash comes from the $467K a year the academic side pays the jocks for Mac Court. Why is Michael Gottfredson letting that corrupt Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal continue?
Colleagues: The Oregon Budget Model determines the college-level budgets of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Oregon. We’ve been running this budget model several years now, and it is appropriate to consider how the various aggregate measurements attached to the model have changed. This week, I am presenting…
Official UO “Around the O” blogger Joe Mosley was kind enough to share his Google Analytics from the first 3 weeks in January with me. Not looking good for UO Matters, though our readers have got AtO beat 9,269 to zero on comments. Around the O: UO Matters:
Most NYT stories about Republicans read like the editor sent the reporters off on a dangerous expedition as punishment for some newsroom etiquette faux-pas. But Robert Draper seems to have had fun with his interview with two UO Commentator alumni, Bret Jacobson and Ian Spencer (Econ 2006), who now run…
2/14/2013 update: Melody Rose appointed Interim Chancellor. Betsy Hammond has the story. No word yet on whether or not her contract will Give her $23,200 for “professional expenses” and then let her pocket it as extra pay. Require her to pretend she lives at Treetops, and pay for her maid…
If there’s one thing the jocks understand it’s how to take the rules and run with them. Today’s excellent story in Inside Higher Ed, by Gerald Gurney and Richard M. Southall, dissects the 2003 NCAA academic reforms – pushed by former UO Pres Myles Brand – and shows how they have…
Another year, another data point. 2/14/2013.
Highlights of the Feb Senate meeting:1) Gottfredson promised to either a) make Randy Geller write an opinion explaining why he believes FERPA precludes faculty from seeing data that might allow them to identify individual students, or b) finally give the IAC the data on academic performance of student athletes that…
Dear Colleagues, Our mission is built on the promise that broad access to the highest quality educational and research experiences will reap substantial economic and societal benefits for the entire state. The latest UO economic impact figures illustrate the magnitude of this university’s influence on our local, regional and state…
From Inside Higher Ed. Unfortunately the professor was teaching CS, not Econ. This appears to be history’s first recorded successful implementation of a strategy discussed in every economics class I’ve ever taken, or taught. Read it all, the students used a combination of social media and intimidation to enforce cooperation:…
I’m used to writing questions like this for a prelim exam, not seeing them in a newspaper. 2/11/13.
OC report on Senate Transparency Meeting
2/17/13: Nick Ekblad of the Oregon Commentator on the recent Senate Transparency Committee meeting: Being asked questions (about transparency, no less) is stressful and intimidating– apparently something that wasn’t in the Public Records Officer job description.