6/15/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere must become a team player, show up at board meetings and stop putting his university at odds with the state system if he wants to keep his job, says the State Board of Higher Education. … (UO…
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6/15/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian uses words, to equal effect, on the UO armed police legislation: Yes, I think we can all agree that something drastic must be done to stop University of Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris from red-lining another rental car and further terrorizing the highways and byways…
6/15/2011: UO Matters’s foreign correspondents have been hard at work on the UO Gabon partnership. Turns out the US Ambassador Eric Benjaminson is a UO alum and football fan – pretty sure he’s not talking soccer. Finalement, c’est un réel plaisir de vous présenter le Dr. Dennis Galvan et John…
6/15/2011: What UO says about Gabon President Ali Bongo, via its press office: Gabon, with a population of 1.5 million, is one of the richest nations in its region after 50 years of coastal and offshore oil production. But its leaders acknowledge that oil will not last forever, and its…
6/14/2011: From the UO press office today: University of Oregon research on human physiology — particularly blood flow’s role in helping to maintain the stability of internal organs — is getting a boost from a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the purchase of state-of-the-art monitoring equipment.…
6/14/2011: The UO administration blows another $1 million of other people’s money, with Floyd Prozanski’s blessing. The comments on this Oregonian story are pretty opposed.
6/14/2011: This NY Times piece on the work of Hugo Mercier is fascinating: For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path…
6/14/2011: 118 MPH in a Nissan Stanza? This athlete’s work for the Ducks would have earned him $500,000 or so last year, except that under NCAA rules smiling Chip Kelly and the other UO coaches got to keep it all. And the NCAA thinks the problem is that a UO…
6/14/2011 update: A commenter forwards us one UO connection: The US Ambassador to Gabon, Eric Benjaminson, is a UO history grad. 6/14/2011 update: Latest word is that the details of the donation are not set, and may be government funds – though apparently in Gabon there is no distinction between…
6/9/2011: UO Matters has put up a few posts about the SOS Audit Division investigation of UO President Emeritus Dave Frohnmayer’s peculiar golden parachute contracts with OUS and UO. Now he’s threatening us with a defamation lawsuit and “a claim for punitive damages.” From: “Dave Frohnmayer” Date: June 8, 2011…
6/10/2011: Who knows where this will go next, I’m dizzy. But Kitzhaber is looking better. Kim Melton of the Oregonian seems to be on top of the legislative education circus. Put her in your RSS. Meanwhile Stacia Kalinoski of KEZI reports on the Eugene 4J layoffs: “It feels like a…
6/10/2011: Kimberley Melton of the Oregonian reports the Oregon Education Association has come out against Kitzhaber’s SB909 proposal for a new board Run by Nancy Golden, to replace OUS and coordinate policy K-16. Nigel Jaquiss has a WWeek piece on the fight between Kitzhaber and the union, which is doing…
6/10/2011: Long story by David Moltz in Insidehighered on the various proposals under consideration.
6/9/2016: Those ingrates at Huron Higher Ed consultants have almost finished their $1.789 million consulting job, leaving behind this description of the UO administrators that hired them, and “The Oregon Way”: UO Matters is running its own competition for the best definition of “The Oregon Way”. Enter yours in the…
6/9/2011: Last July we wrote: While ORSA has been in complete disarray, the Human Subjects Protection office has been very well run. I hope they can find a worthy replacement for Juliana (Kyrk). Given what I’ve seen of other university’s IRB offices it won’t be easy. Rumor is that the…