9/19/2012: Another sensible faculty led initiative, from Inside Oregon: Lininger and fellow UO professors Jane Cramer (political science), Chris Doe (biology) and Neil Bania and Laura Leete (planning, public policy and management) saw that local students were losing many opportunities for AP coursework. They also sensed an opportunity to make…
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at the shoulder if a college athlete tried this. From George Schroeder in the RG. 6/18/2012.
6/18/2012: Robert Samuelson had a recent column, “‘College for all’ mindset compounds problem“, arguing that the US probably has enough college graduates, or close to it. But are the right students going to college? High math ability students from low income families have less than half the chance of attending…
6/19/2012: The NYT reports on Dragas’s firing of UVA Pres: The board’s united front showed its first serious cracks, as four of the 15 voting members sent an emissary on Sunday night to the president, Teresa Sullivan, to discuss the terms on which she would stay, according to people briefed…
6/17/2012: If I was an economist I could give a whole lecture – hell, a whole course – on Nixon’s great achievements: Replaced the random enslavement of the draft with a paid, professional military. Established the EPA Got us off the gold standard Created the Earned Income Tax Credit Signed…
6/16/2012: Diane Dietz of the RG on Gottfredson: Lots of info and many quotes, sounds like a solid guy. He starts Aug 1, which means Berdahl gets to approve the July round of contracts for the Johnson Hall crew. It will be interesting to see how many “special assistant” jobs…
“I was really impressed that he could be a leader not only for the University of Oregon but for our whole state, because frankly our state needs a leader like him to advocate not only for the University of Oregon, not only for the state but for all of our…
6/15/2012 update: I’m no legal ethics professor, but this doesn’t look good for Frohnmayer: The full letter is here. The Bar’s disciplinary counsel has given Frohnmayer and Gary until 6/21 to respond. The Bend Bulletin reports that the county has spent about $100,000 on the matter so far, presumably much…
6/15/2012: Harry Esteve has the story, and a request in the online comments for help from readers with more information.
6/15/2012: From the Chronicle: A Missed Opportunity? In his original proposal for the study, back in 2009, the then-president of the Association of American Universities, Robert M. Berdahl, said he’d like an evaluation of whether the country might simply have too many universities competing for its federal research dollars. ……
6/15/2012: Bill Graves has the story. Looks like $587,705 plus benefits. Quite high for a school like Oregon State. Gottfredson’s deal is on the rich side too. The high pay for OUS presidents is a holdover from Pernsteiner’s $45,000 consulting deal with Ray Cotton, used to justify a large raise…
ODE video here. Let the brown-nosing begin: June 14, 2012 To: UO students, faculty and staff University of Oregon students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the State Board of Higher Education’s formal vote to approve Michael Gottfredson as the next president of the University of Oregon and celebrate…
Forwarded on to me from a few different UCI faculty: From: “Michael V. Drake, Chancellor” Subject: Leadership UpdateDate: June 11, 2012 10:27:01 AM PDTTo: “UCI Community”: ; Dear Colleagues, Earlier today, the Oregon University System announced that Michael R. Gottfredson, our executive vice chancellor and provost, is the sole candidate…
Jack Bog reports, here. In the comments here ideas on what UO should and shouldn’t do for commencement ceremonies are welcome. Me, I like the small department ceremonies. 6/13/2012.
6/13/2012: Her working group report is here. His lame BS is here: