11/8/2011: In June the OUS board refused to sign off on a bond sale to fund the EMU expansions until the students agreed to the plans – in no small part because the plan requires students to pay $100 a quarter in increased fees, but hadn’t been consulted about what…
UO Matters
11/6/2011: Ohio State has just borrowed big to fund an expansion of the academic side. Fascinating Oregonian column by David Sarasohn here on the very unusual 100 year bonds. (Yes, we know Frohnmayer sold $230 million in bonds for 2008, but that was for a basketball arena – although tuition…
11/5/2011: Details in this Steve Duin column in the Oregonian, coming out in print Sunday: The memo sets out the hoops the university jumps through to maintain the illusion (that athletics is self-supporting). The administration, for example, generously “allows” athletics to bank revenue from above-ground, off-street parking in designated lots…
11/4/2011: Last spring the faculty pushed for an honest and thorough review of the performance of our VP for Academic Affairs. Your voice got heard, and the administration is now searching for a replacement: Colleagues I am pleased to announce the internal posting to recruit the Senior Vice Provost for…
11/3/2011: I’m not exactly shocked to learn that the Jaqua Center glass box burns through electricity like a Norwegian Casino. But it is rather surprising to discover that the academic side of UO – meaning tuition money, mostly – pays the electric bill. The athletic department sticks us with a…
11/3/2011: I’m no psychology professor but Claude Steele is, and he has done some fascinating work on “stereotype threat”. The classic experiment is to tell women everyone knows women are bad at math, just before they take a math quiz. They do worse. It works in reverse too. Or so…
11/3/2011: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” RG editorial on the summer UO raises. Love that subhead. So, it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of the policy. And why should the RG go out on the limb for a UO administration that has…
11/2/2011: This is a weird one. I just got the email saying: The special election for the Promotion Tenure-Retention Appeals Committee (PTRAC) and the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC) has begun. To cast your vote, please log on to DuckWeb and click on the 2011 Faculty/Staff Election tab: https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin When…
11/2/2011: University Senate-sponsored session with President Lariviere Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall at the School of Music and Dance. Details here.
11/2/2011: Greg Bolt’s story 2 weeks ago in the RG gave the short version of the last 10 years of UO spending priorities: 26% more students, 9% more faculty, 36% more administrators. Today Bolt has a detailed story about the recent UO raises. The short version? The money for the…
defamatory USA Today story on yesterday’s congressional hearing comparing them to the NCAA: “(The NCAA) is one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind,” (US Congressman from Illinois) Rush said. “I think you would compare the NCAA to Al Capone and to the mafia. “It’s a…
11/1/2011: Word down by the Duck Pond is that the Occupy Eugene folks are going to take Chancellor Pernsteiner up on his gracious offer to host the whole movement at his official state owned mansion, Treetops, at 2237 Spring Blvd. Dr. Pernsteiner is quoted in a flyer making the rounds:…
11/1/2011: University Senate-sponsored session with President Lariviere TOMORROW, Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall at the School of Music and Dance. Details below. Meanwhile here is a clip of President Lariviere during his on campus interview in March 2009. The part about shared governance, 8:40 in,…
10/31/2011: Word is the city is not going to let them back into Alton Baker Park: The Eugene City Council met at noon today to discuss the Occupy Eugene movement and voted to reinstate its camping ban within Alton Baker Park. Meanwhile, Occupy Eugene supporters have been working to achieve…
10/31/2011: Better late than never. The students who oppose this have a blog here. Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence Responses to Recent Questions 1. Is OMAS being eliminated? You will no longer see the name Office of Multicultural Academic Support (OMAS). However, all of the current staff of OMAS will…