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- Pres Schill sends year-end reflections (4)
- XDH { Seriously? I am at the stage that any email missives from Schill or Phillips get deleted essentially unread. }
- Dog { let's not forget that Schill had a 5 year plan to get out of here and move upwards. Obviously the... }
- uomatters { Come on, even a hard case like me can get a little teary at graduation, or as we call it... }
- dtl { "I found tears streaming down my face on more than one occasion" -- hyperbole much? }
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- dtl { It is NOT the trade electricians that schedule power outages *or* send out the notices. Look to management at CPFM... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { it seems to me the new applied science program -- aka Knight Campus -- should be supplying us with all... }
- dtl { There was a power outage? it was announced? Not for my building... }
- uomatters { As a former electrician (Power and Wind Marine, San Diego) I find it endearing that a mere professor thinks that... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Speaking of comfort level -- a bit off-topic and surely not as momentous as the Senate's Social Justice anti-racist efforts... }
- Nonsense { Is that before or after you complain about not getting important information sent to you? }
- thedude { I've noticed our provost wasting my time sending me more emails I don't read and have to delete. }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { The Senate is to be commended for this vitally urgent work. Bold and courageous! It is much needed that they... }
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- uomatters { It's weird, but these PR log posts get lots of click throughs. I assume this is mostly sports journalists checking... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { I can't imagine why UOM would think that this might be of interest to anybody -- even to UOM! What... }
- GC Kevin Reed can't get... (9)
- uomatters { That said, the only ones who walk out alive after the DC-3 crash-lands on the glacier will be Schill and... }
- ScienceDuck { To be fair, I can't really see Mike doing an Alaskan outdoors adventuring trip on his own volition. }
- ODA { I would guess the answer to this is yes it is right, and yes you can (and probably should) ask... }
- ODA { I bet the board could have an Alaska retreat for the board, and the University (Students) would have to pay... }
- A Real Professor { A real professor wouldn't need to ask a lawyer. Just find a conference in Fairbanks and charge the trip to... }
- Not a trustee { Did the Board of Trustees member do anything wrong in offering Schill a fishing trip? Can I offer a platonic... }
- Inquiring Employee { Is it ethical, or a proper use of public salary and letterhead, for the General Counsel lawyer of the University... }
- Anas clypeata { Why would Schill even ask? When you make a zillion dollars and are the president of a major public university,... }
- Provost Phillips sweeps up dept... (20)
- sjd { Perhaps it is time to sue the administration, OR go to the Oregon Legislature and say this cannot happen... Salem... }
- anon and on and on { I think the various deans are doing damage control now, figuring out what they *have* to cover, but we were... }
- sjd { Question, I know fairness has little to do with law but to my uneducated head: If you wrote a contract... }
- anon and on and on { We'd even encumbered funds and they still swept them. So now we've got to figure out how to tell graduate... }
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- honest Uncle Bernie { This is weird, and it is part of a trend of weird things coming from Johnson Hall and their in... }
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- honest Uncle Bernie { Everyone knows mathematicians have OCD. They made a whole branch of learning out of counting, after all. They got caught... }
- charlie { OT, but there's increasing pressure to cancel the Tokyo Olys due to covid. If the games are cancelled prior to... }
- Dog { HAL = IBM -1 }
- XDH { Back when I was Dept Head in the early teens, it was well known that Math had a $1M surplus... }
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- vhils { The rumor is that the Cinema Studies department had even more stolen, the most stolen of any CAS department, almost... }
- charlie { Math is hard, and interferes with the 'college experience.' Make it go away... }
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- Compulsory Pessimist { The SEIU does fight the OA positions that shouldn't be. Alas, there are so *many* fights they gotta fight on... }
- New Year Cat { I believe SEIU is looking into the OA situation on campus. }
- Anas clypeata { A low salary, and no union job security. Nice. Does SEIU ever fight these ridiculous OA positions that should clearly... }
- just different { What's the problem here, exactly? Other than the embarrassingly low salaries OAs get paid? }
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The USNews rankings are probably one of the biggest drivers. Sad but likely true. If boosters gave 50% of their gifts to academics UO might have another $500M or so in academic gifts. Enough to improve academics and raise the profile of the university.
Yeah, why don’t you add the search term “duck academics” or “duck faculty” and see where that ends up in the mix of this very real analysis of what matters to people about the UO.
Flagship?
It seems the University itself is far more important to the people of Oregon than Duck football. IMHO that reflects reality. A well educated citizenry is necessary to the growth and vitality of the state. Football is entertaining, but has no long term value to Oregon. The money should be used for education, not entertainment.
Seems like there’s many more search terms you could’ve used to solidify the argument: “Oregon football”, “UO basketball”, “Penei Sewell”, etc. At the very least compare it against other schools’ similar terms.
It’s called UoM “cherry picking”. Change the search term to “Oregon Ducks football” and all the sudden you see that most states west of the Rockies really do give a $h!t about Oregon football.
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/alabama-football/national-championship-game-delivers-lowest-ratings-in-over-a-decade/
Worst ratings for a college football championship game in well over a decade occurred this year. Despite that, some of you truly believe USAAmericans are going to give a good god damn about duck football. Looks like some real fear flagship athletics are of no relevance to people concerned with how they’re gonna pay their bills…
“duck football” eyeballs to equal to a third of the searches for “university of oregon” during fall season when students are applying. doesn’t seem that minor.
The false claim that nobody cares about Oregon football, which is not backed by any comparative data analysis is a direct insult to the decision making intelligence of Oregon football players (mostly people of color) who select Oregon precisely because it is one of the top programs in the country and they have a choice. It is also a great indicator of why nobody cares about UO economics: the department which is giving tenure to such profs as uomatters can not be any good.
https://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/fball/2021-22/roster?view=headshot
Posted above is the football roster of Ohio University. The program draws a smiliar number of people of color as does the flagship. Those players also had a choice as to where they could attend, assuming they’re scholarship players. Given your logic, the public must have a great deal of interest in Ohio U football due to the racial composition of its team.
Tell you what. Go to the football rosters of Rutgers, Purdue, North Carolina State and tell us the racial composition of the team. Better yet, do that with Oregon State. Give us the viewership ratings for all those teams. Come back and tell us the players of color of on those teams are dumber than those of the flagship because those other POC are laboring for programs that no one gives a good god damn…
If you google “University of Oregon” you get 19,300,000 results. If you subtract the search terms “ducks” and “football” and “basketball” and “track” you get 9,437,000 results. So, half of our ‘mentions’ in ‘global content’ includes at least a note about sports. How substantive those notes are would require further research.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22university+of+oregon%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22university+of+oregon%22+-football+-basketball+-ducks+-track