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we want more children

8/9/2011: From Insidehighered.com. PLoS ONE link here. Nearly half of female faculty members in top science departments wish they’d had more children, but didn’t because of their careers, while about a quarter of their male counterparts feel the same way, according to a new study. This is a large but…

Ohio to try Larivieresque NP plan

8/9/2011: From Insidehighered.com: Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro will on Thursday unveil a plan designed to reduce government involvement in the state’s 14 public universities, giving the institutions more authority in administrative and financial matters if they meet certain performance benchmarks.  … Because the process to date has…

Anon Law Professor blog

8/9/2011: From Scott Jaschik in Insidehighered.com: These days there are enough blogs on the theme that law school is a scam that there are multiple blogrolls on the subject, where readers can pick among First Tier Toilet!, Fluster Cucked, Subprime JD, Tales of a Fourth-Tier Nothing and more. Most of…

PEBB’s new HEM

8/4/2011 – 8/5/2011: The “Health Engagement Model” changes to PEBB are going to be very interesting. I encourage people to check out the PEBB FAQ on it, here. Comments welcome. More on this sometime next week. A bit more background in this Lund Report story, another here. Here is a…

Public Records Theft

8/2/2011: Beth Velliquette in the Durham Herald-Sun reports someone broke into the UNC Honor Court and stole their files on a football player plagiarism scandal. Apparently his university employed tutor didn’t actually write his paper for him – she got lazy and just copied it off the internet. Stupid. So…

Hope for UO research?

8/1/2011: This job posting from UO’s new VP for Research, Kim Espy, creates some hope that UO’s research priorities are going to move away from Provost Bean’s oversold “5 big ideas” towards something more like, uh, research. Not that we have anything against trying to base our AAU status on…