3/2/2012: That’s the rumor down at the faculty club anyway. Apparently the union organizers are not opposed: keeping them out of the bargaining unit reduces the denominator, and law professors – even adjuncts – are not likely to sign the union card. My recollection is that this split has happened…
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3/2/2012: Dave Duerson was a former college and NFL football star, suffering from brain injuries induced by concussions and repeated MTBI on the field. He was in denial for years, but in 2011, age 50, he realized the brain damage was serious and irreversible and was making him a violent…
3/2/2012: Back of the envelope, each UO student pays $200-$500 per year in various subsidies for the jocks. In December the students voted 9 to 1 to start pressuring AD Rob Mullens to come clean about this, and fulfill longtime promises from past athletic directors to start making a contribution…
3/1/2012: That’s my guess. Last year Doug Tripp and Frances Dyke told the faculty – and the legislature – that campus police were going to save UO $73,000. And you wonder why Johnson Hall has negative credibility. Here are the last ten years of DPS spending, from the Financial Transparency…
3/1/2012: Pete Thamel has the NYT story. The university president and provost have stepped down. The coaches and AD’s who perpetrated the scandals have moved on, mostly to better jobs. The NCAA, FAR, IAC etc. never noticed anything wrong, such as players recruited despite not meeting admissions requirements, etc. It…
3/1/2012: A university with 90,000 mostly online students, part of the Maryland system, where the president has disappeared, and the faculty – none have tenure – are powerless to even ask why. Interesting Chronicle of Higher Ed story.
3/1/2012: Compare the December and January invoices from Mike Glazier, the NCAA insider lawyer that UO is paying to negotiate the NCAA football infractions settlement. Looks much more transparent when you do the redactions in white, instead of the traditional CIA black. But the bottom line is the same: the…
3/28/2012 Update: Link to Boston Globe story on Cotton here: 2/29/2012: Furloughs for faculty, big tuition raises for students, huge bonuses for administrators. At Howard University, from insidehighered.com. I like this quote: Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington lawyer who specializes in presidential contracts, said the incentives Howard offered — often…
2/29/2012: I’ve nodded at this gentleman many times as he walked his 13th street beat, but I never stopped to talk to him. Sweet story about his retirement, in the ODE by Branden Andersen: “I knew that I didn’t have enough compassion to be a minister, but I knew I…
2/28/2012: That’s the word from Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Please keep any comments peaceful: you never know what the other person is packing.
2/28/2012: Becky Metrick of the ODE writes on UO Police Chief Doug Tripp’s upcoming 16 week course at the Oregon Public Safety Academy in Salem: Tripp and Hansen, who have had no previous official police force experience, are required to go through the 16 weeks of training that any new…
Figure and explanation sent to me by Architecture Professor Peter Keyes: My Conclusions from the Data: There is an undeniable inverse correlation between university names that begin with vowels and average school quality. (Presence of vowel correlates to lower ranking). Of course, causality is not indicated. Does low quality lead…
is not the same thing as transparency. New Greg Bolt story on athletic department budgeting, in the RG today, here. Story on Matt Court costs and wildly exaggerated revenue here. In defense of Jamie Moffitt, she did finally post a good chunk of financial info, here, but only after a…
2/24/2012: From Rob Moseley in the RG: An NCAA investigation suggests that the Oregon football team did not conform to NCAA regulations relating to recruiting over the last four years, according to documents released Friday by the university. A draft statement of “proposed findings of violations” submitted by the NCAA…
2/24/2012: Sent to me by an anonymous prof: Also see this, from UO’s AAUP website: