UO Matters
11/15/2012: Research by economist (and UO PhD grad) Brad Curs, report by Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle: Participating in lower-tier bowls does little to drive enrollment but adds slightly to the bottom line, new research suggests, countering the notion that postseason football, outside of the highest-rated games, is a money…
Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has a story in Insidehighered.com about the potential implications for Title IX: “Nevertheless, our results do suggest that it may be a mistake to base Title IX implementation on the assumption that males and females have, or soon will have, generally equal sports interest.” The…
The RG reprints a Bloomberg report on the growing pushback from faculty, students, and parents angry at how universities are wasting their money: U.S. universities employed more than 230,000 administrators in 2009, up 60 percent from 1993, or 10 times the rate of growth of the tenured faculty, those with permanent…
Subjects from the UO experiment report: “I felt immensely powerless and almost naked …”. ” … I felt like half a person.” This torture got through UO human subjects review? Shocking. BTW, UO IRB is now saying that renewal of an existing protocol will take them almost 2 months. How much…
Sorry, that’s at Ohio State. Here at UO we are losing top science PI’s and our president is refusing to pay out a 3.5% raise that is already funded. At OSU the money will come in part from parking revenue, believe it or not. Here at UO the parking fees…
Update: After Randy didn’t reply to my requests for an explanation for the delay, I sent a public records petition to Lane County DA Alex Gardner. An hour later I got a response from Dave Hubin’s public records office, offering to sell me these invoices and contracts for $235. It…
Like most faculty I spend a lot of time advising students on how to get a good education at UO. I tell them every educated person needs a basic knowledge of evolution and at least two languages, three if you count BASH scripting. And really, how hard can Math 413 be?…
Faculty club update: Word down by the pool cabana is that there are another 700 international students – not counted in the official statistics on the grounds that they are not eligible to take regular UO classes until they pass sufficient AEI credits. We will get them soon though. Too…
Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, V. Joseph Hotz NBER Working Paper No. 18523Issued in November 2012 Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California’s public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of…
11/11/2012: Bill Gates, here: I’m reminded of a point made by Andrew Rosen of Kaplan, the for-profit education company, that colleges today know more about how many kids attend basketball games and which alumni give money than how many students showed up for economics class during the week, or which…
Just kidding, the NYT story on Falwell’s efforts to turn Liberty University into a big-time college football powerhouse says they will rely on prayer instead. Necessary but not sufficient. Proof: see FishDuck.com. 11/11/2012.
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11/9/2012: Forgive me for bragging a bit: I want this in my service report for post-tenure review. Starting last fall I posted a series of stories on the UO athletic department’s overhead rate, using documents obtained with public records requests and petitions. While athletics had originally been scheduled to pay…
I see there are two of you. Please put your grading policy in the comments. Today’s Beangram takes green-washing to a new level: Sure, Gabon’s a corrupt one party kleptocracy – but it’s sustainable! Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost Message for November 9, 2012 Colleagues: We are…