Executive and Audit Committee —1:15 pm – September 8, 2016 Ford Alumni Center, Giustina Ballroom [Materials] Whoops, that’s from OSU. Also see their detailed work plan posted by their Board’s Executive and Audit Committee. Compare with the minimalist info the UO Board is willing to share: UO: Convene – Call to order, roll call – Approval…
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Elevator version: Moffitt says the academic budget is sort of OK. Meanwhile Mullens is raking in the dough, and spending it just as quickly on whatever he wants. No talk of the long overdue Athletics Department contributions to UO’s academic mission. Finance and Facilities Committee — September 8, 2016 10:00 am…
These are not easy to find on the Board’s website, so I’ve put them here. Elevator version: A long rambling report from Coltrane on academic program assessment, followed by a substantive report on UO’s new student success initiatives, with Schill’s new hire Doneka Scott and Bramhall and Freinkel. The trustees…
Here’s the latest in a series of papers using football game wins and losses as a source of independent variation. Other work has showed the relationship of football to domestic abuse, rape, drinking, and, at UO, bad grades for undergraduate men. This time it’s about racial bias among Louisiana judges. Former CAS Dean…
Because the State is wasting the taxpayers’ money on other things. UO will get about $65M from the state next year. In comparison, Governor Kulongoski blew about $200M on green energy schemes. How did subsidies for corporate wind farms and solar panels for McMansions become more important than accessible education for the middle class? Governor Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes kept…
Bob Berdahl and Randy Geller were working on a scheme to shut down the UO Senate in response to unionization. I wonder what sort of lock-out plans the administration had prepared for the faculty? Here’s what’s happening at Long Island University: From the Chronicle: Faculty members at Long Island University were locked out of the…
No, this isn’t about HLGR’s Andrea Coit and her failed attempt to warn federal Judge David Carter about the Bowl of Dicks jury’s potential involvement in a Masonic blood-oath conspiracy. The Cook County Record has the latest on former Chicago State University President Wayne Watson and the $3M his retaliation against a whistleblower cost the now bankrupt CSU, here:…
9/4/2016 update: Greg Lukianoff of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education points out the fallacies in Jim Sleeper’s NYT op-ed: Of course, this isn’t the only thing that Sleeper gets wrong. As he has done before, Sleeper attempts to present FIRE as part of a vast right-wing conspiracy, conveniently…
NBC reports that Colin Kaepernick’s NFL movement is spreading. Will any Duck players take a knee at today’s UC-Davis game, for “O’er the land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave”? Two years ago two of Dana Altman’s Duck basketball players tried a Black Lives Matter protest during his national anthem. Altman chewed out…
Makes sense, he’ll hold some sort of campus conversation in October and whichever way this goes it shouldn’t be done in the dead of summer. Schill’s letter, with an analysis of the Historians’ Report, is posted here. Technically these are recommendations to the Board, which meets Sept 8-9. Full text: Deady and…
That’s the rumor down at the Faculty Club tonight. The logic is that we’ve all learned a lot about Oregon’s racist history from the public debates and discussion over the Deady Hall denaming, and we want to make sure that no new class of freshman, or new faculty, ever forget. So Deady’s…
Unfortunately our VP for Student Affairs has a bigger budget, and will pay an $8K premium for someone who’s willing to talk the talk, rather than walk the walk. Which job do you think will do more for UO’s students? Job A: 8/30/2016: LCB seeks Academic Adviser and Diversity Initiatives Specialist Lundquist College of…
Jeff Manning has the latest on just one of the many clean energy scandals, in the Oregonian here: An energy consultant involved in a controversial state solar power project at two Oregon universities has been indicted on forgery charges, after an investigation prompted by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s reporting. …
Buzzfeed has a good summary of events at UK so far: … According to 122 pages of investigation documents that were leaked to the student paper, the independently run Kentucky Kernel, Harwood violated school sexual assault policies by “fondling” the two students at two conferences in 2012 and 2013. He…
Gated if you’re off the campus network, link here. A snippet from a long report by Brad Wolverton: … The Chronicle spoke with people who run cheating companies and those who do the cheating. The demand has been around for decades. But the industry is in rapid transition. Just as…