You bet I’m impressed. The project website is here, the poem is here.
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Coltrane recently gave business school dean Kees de Kluyver a remarkably generous golden parachute – 1/2 a Gottfredson, more or less. Will that now be the precedent for Coltrane? Presumably he’ll get a well earned sabbatical year – but at his professor’s salary, or his provost’s salary? The difference is enough to fund a…
Caveat: The Iowa market is thin. Courtesy of David Rothschild and the Iowa Electronic Markets:
More on Professor Youm, who came to the US as a student from Korea when it was still a military dictatorship, here. He’s been a longtime advocate for free speech and government transparency. His full Op-Ed is here. (Now in the RG too here.) The ending: … It gets worse. As a media…
6/6/2016 update: Diane Dietz is here and there will be a recording posted somewhere, so I’m skipping the live-blog. Very glad to see the J-School organize this, and I thought the panel did a good job addressing the pros and cons. It was amusing to hear former UO journalism dean Tim Gleason talk…
The NYT has the news here: … But he was more than the sum of his athletic gifts. An agile mind, a buoyant personality, a brash self-confidence and an evolving set of personal convictions fostered a magnetism that the ring alone could not contain. He entertained as much with his…
Scott Coltrane started the first search to replace GC Randy Geller. That didn’t yield anyone better than Doug Park, as explained here. So Mike Schill sensibly started over, offering more responsibility and much higher pay. Job ad here. Finalist #3 was a keeper: Finalist #3 for GCVP: Kevin S. Reed, UCLA. Schedule for Aug 5…
Good speech. Diane Dietz has more here. The UO Channel interface is clunky so I’ve put the video on youtube, here: The text of Schill’s “Six Myths” speech is here: … The widening gulf between the wealth of private and public universities mimics the increasing economic polarization of our society outside…
The morning committee meetings are here. Live video here. Some live blogging below. Usual disclaimer: my opinion of what people said, should have said, meant, or should have meant. Highlights (to be updated): Strong public comments from the the Divest UO students, who describe the contempt they’ve received from the…
These are the morning committee meetings. The afternoon full board meeting is here. Live video here. Some live blogging below. Usual disclaimer: my opinion of what people said, should have said, meant, or should have meant. Highlights (to be updated): Still no information from Trustee Susan Gary on the secret…
I can no longer remember which UO President moved graduation from the weekend to Monday in a slavish accommodation for some track meet, and utter disregard for the families who must skip work to watch their children graduate. But it’s been years now. Can’t our Dean of Students get the difference between…
Around the O has more here: In his investiture speech Schill is expected to challenge the audience and university community to help him debunk some of the persistent myths that hamper both the UO and all public research universities. The ceremony will include remarks by Block and UO senior Stefani Aleman,…
No, of course I’m not talking about the investigation of the alleged gang rape by 3 of Dana Altman’s players. UO never conducted an investigation. Gottfredson’s “Independent” Review Panel, which included Bob Berdahl, was specifically told *not* to investigate the alleged rape, or the coverup. No one was fired, unless you…
That’s the headline from the excellent, long report by Alex Cippolle in the Eugene Weekly here. The synopsis? This story begins with a simple request for information. Before long, it veers into murky waters about freedom of information and the public trust, and potential violations of both in Eugene and statewide.…