8/11/2011: From Dan Ariely at Duke, in the Chronicle: They sent all 498 of their classmates e-mail messages from a fictitious student explaining how to download Mr. Ariely’s final-exam questions and answers from the previous year. Half the messages included this postscript: “P.S. I don’t know if this is cheating…
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8/10/2011: OUS had a whole meeting devoted to Equity and Diversity last month. I challenge you to read the docket and come away with any sense for what they will actually do to address the real problems of college access for low SES Oregonians. OUS will do nothing, except for…
8/10/2011: OUS Chancellor Dr. Pernsteiner has appointed his assistant Jay Kenton as the OUS negotiator with SEIU. So Kenton is taking some vacation time. From the SEIU letter declaring a bargaining impasse: We spent much of Monday trying to convince management to join us in telling the governor that the…
8/9/2011: I’ve never heard of it, they don’t show up on google or the UO website. But UO has a job posting for instructors for it: Global Education Leadership Institute Posting: 081106 Location: Eugene Closes: 2012-08-31 Global Education Leadership Institute invites applications for adjunct faculty to provide instruction and program…
8/9/2011: Cincinnati, from the Chronicle.
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…
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…
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…
8/9/2011: Around the time Randy Geller was appointed UO General Counsel, longtime GC executive assistant Brian Whalen left to work in the president’s office. He was replaced by Deb Donning, who was given the new title of “Chief of Staff” to the General Counsel. Now it seems like she’s also…
8/8/2011: From economist Alex Tabarrok: …I pointed out that the market was moving towards superstar teachers, who teach hundreds at a time or even thousands online. Today, we have the Khan Academy, a huge increase in online education, electronic textbooks and peer grading systems and highly successful superstar teachers with Michael Sandel and his…
8/8/2011: From Mark Baker in the RG. The Princeton Review rankings, on the other hand, put us in bottom 10 nationwide for teaching. The fact they also put Cal Tech in that group makes me a little curious about their methodology. The UO NRC grad program rankings are here.
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…
8/4/2011: That’s what he says *after* they arrest him for backyard fission experiments. Funny, I remember having a science set with a bit of radium and a cloud chamber, when I was 12. From boingboing.net.
8/2/2011: I don’t know what to make of this RG op-ed by Pat Walsh of local PR firm Vox PRPA. Starts off sensibly: For Duck football coaches who spend their days managing the fitness and academic pursuits of the youngest of adults — and pocket more money in a month…
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…