6/8/2011: Rich Linton and Frances Dyke have now posted the phase II Huron report, here – a 143 page powerpoint. It doesn’t make them look like very good managers. President Lariviere has fired Linton from his VP for Research job, and has hired a search firm and posted an ad…
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6/8/2011: The Faculty Lounges and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For by WSJ editor Naomi Schaefer Riley is currently getting a lot of attention. Insidehighered.com has a interesting summary and interview, by Dan Berrett. The discussion is pretty lively too. Q: The title and…
but instead Dave Frohnmayer went to OUS and took $10 million of our bonding authority to build a new alumni center, with fancy offices for the UO Foundation and convenient underground parking for their overpaid CEOs. The Foundation is still trying to raise the rest of the $29 million cost…
“They spent all the money on the Jacqua Center to kill baby ducks.”
6/7/2011: Stanley Fish – former professor, former administrator, seldom a very interesting columnist – revisits an old question in the NYT: If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for? … Academics want to have it both ways, and sometimes do. They want, that is, to work…
6/7/2011: I’m not a big fan of defining diversity on those narrow grounds. But it you are, the UO faculty are not the problem, the UO administration is. If you look at page 29 of UO’s Affirmative Action Report, you will find that UO’s tenure track faculty is representative…
6/5/2011: UO student Ben DeJarnette adds some diversity of thought to his education – with a joint class with Oregon State Penitentiary inmates. From his Op-Ed in the RG: … As universities do somersaults to achieve diversity in their student bodies, the Inside-Out experience should force us to question what…
6/4/2011: From Lauren Fox in the RG. UO is #4 for alcohol violations, #3 for drugs. (2009 data). A UO student explains the drinking: “It’s really not that surprising,” said student Sean Roney, a junior. “UO is a great party school; we have good sports teams, and drinking is a…
6/4/2012: First I’d heard of this constructive idea, from KEZI: With plenty of parents worried about how furlough days will affect their child’s education, the University of Oregon is stepping up to help. A group of UO professors are volunteering to teach low-cost courses on days when local high schools…
6/3/2011: The administration started the year by ignoring student opposition to spending millions of their tuition money on armed, sworn police – while condescendingly telling them, and the faculty, that they had been consulted and informed, and that the proposal would actually save us $76,000 a year. ASUO President Amelie…
Bad news from the RG. UO’s final exams start Monday. Rumor has it desperate undergrads are already looting the Starbucks on 13th: OAKRIDGE — A Nevada man escaped injury this morning after his tractor-trailer rig overturned on Highway 58 east of Oakridge, state police officials said. The crash occurred when…
6/3/2011: There were three bills in the legislature for higher ed reform this year. Gov. Kitzhaber’s bills to replace OUS and Dr. Pernsteiner Mr. Pernsteiner with a new K-20 “Educational Investment Board”http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB909/http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/hb2962/ UO President Lariviere’s proposals to create a free and independent UO Board of Directors focused on improving UO’s…
6/3/2011: Becky Supiano in the Chronicle: To come up with a benchmark for affordability, the group used Npsas data to calculate how much of a family’s income would be required to pay the average cost of college after grant aid at colleges generally, and found that it was 27 percent…
in the wrong hands, it’s a weapon. If only the administration had armed, sworn officers on call this tragic episode could have been prevented. Thanks to Kenny Ocker of the ODE keep these coming, please! Disturbingly, the story has no reference to classical history:
6/2/2011: I’m hoping that this ODE story is not an entirely accurate description of what happened in our Arabic program. But at this point anything is plausible. Maybe they needed the money for another Associate VP of strategic planning and communication? Or to pay for our new VP for Diversity?…