7/7/2016 update: At some point you know the Ducks are going to have to do the same. It’s inevitable. Meanwhile CNN has the story on Baylor here. Of course it’s not just the athletes – see Lindo et al.: 6/24/2016 update: Riley’s footballers hear from Brenda Tracy, OSU rape survivor,…
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The RG has a long article on the Bias Response Team here, explaining the history of its formation under Dave Frohnmayer along with some details of the current controversy over campus BRT’s and academic freedom. Frohnmayer was especially sensitive on racial issues, having recently lost a case over discriminatory hiring of JH administrators. The RG story on…
I assume the GTFF website will be updated soon. Meanwhile Diane Dietz has the story in the RG here: UO President Michael Schill, in his year-in-review in June, said he was pleased with the year’s quick settlements with United Academics and the Service Employees International Union. Schill’s initiatives to build the…
It’s been a pretty good one. Andrew Theen’s story in the Oregonian captures some of it, starting with the Roundup: Two months into his tenure as University of Oregon president, Michael Schill was far from home in just about every way possible, in a pair of borrowed boots and head swimming underneath…
Christian Hill has the story in the RG: City budget writers have put the brakes on a proposal by Eugene City Manager Jon Ruiz to allot $500,000 in the coming budget year toward Eugene’s preparations for the 2021 IAAF World Championships. The budget that the City Council adopted this week puts…
You don’t think? The job ad is here: Ensures compliance with state & fed law in regards to existing policies Coordinate and consult with University offices, departments, units and programs regarding their records management compliance issues (litigation, public records requests, audits, records retention scheduling, essential records scheduling and similar services); Candidates…
6/28/2016: UO gets $6M from Marin Community Foundation to endow family counseling and speech clinic. Andrew Theen has the good news in the Oregonian: “Our long-term vision is to expand the college’s clinic and capabilities to become the educational and social-services equivalent of a modern teaching hospital,” UO President Michael Schill said…
The UO BOT does not post videos of the board meetings – so UO Matters operatives will do it for them. More to come. (Links fixed, thanks.) Randy Sullivan’s farewell speech to the Board: “Six Myths the UO Trustees believe about the University Senate” starts at https://youtu.be/qn1T21TlS_0?t=2h8m2s Faculty Union President Michael Dreiling…
although you could argue Ken Starr was not a hard test. And the devil paid his debt: in return for ignoring a string of rapes by “student-athletes”, Starr gets lifetime tenure as a law school professor. Not bad for a small-town preacher’s son.
Elon Glucklich has the news in the RG, here. Just kidding about the Bach part. Springfield’s city government is actually giving the money to bail out money-losing TrackTown USA and its well paid executives.
The NYT has the story here: Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, said these findings “clearly conform to what I see on the ground every day,” adding that “the extra year for men just disadvantages women.” The problem, said Ms. Davis-Blake, is that “giving…
No, of course I’m not talking about the nicely formatted puffery UO puts out, here. I’m talking about the informative emails from OSU: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] June 2016 Update Date: June 23, 2016 at 3:25:27 PM PDT To: “‘[email protected]'” <[email protected]> OSU Government Relations: June 2016 Update Following the 2016…
That’s the report from the state auditor, below. UO is now exempt from state audits, and its internal audit functions have been crippled since Brenda Muirhead and one (two?) of her staff left suddenly last November, after a series of disputes with VPFA Jamie Moffitt’s office. Their website doesn’t even…
It seems there’s a UO policy that limits when faculty can assign course incompletes – the work has to be incomplete, but not too incomplete. It’s the job of UO’s well-paid Faculty Athletics Representative Tim Gleason to enforce these sorts of rules for our unpaid “student-athletes”. So they pulled Jasmine Todd out of the starting blocks, This will hurt her future…
When I ran for Senate President I said I’d have to do something with this blog. I don’t buy the argument it’s a conflict of interest, any more than the UO President’s army of well paid PR flacks are conflicted, but it sure needs some fresh blood. See my post below for…