5/27/2011: Interesting story in the Chronicle by Richard Kahlenberg reporting that LBJ’s 1965 AA proposals were explicitly based on class, not the race and ethnicity that are its current focus, and the focus of UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. Perhaps the new OIED director will have a view…
Posts published by “uomatters”
5/27/2011: From his last speech as Senate Pres: We are hanging on to our top tier research classification by the thinnest of hairs. … The status of our instructional mission is also tenuous. We have increased the number of students from 17,000 to 24,500 in the past 15 years, a…
5/26/2011: First it was Doug Tripp’s bomb-sniffing puppy. Now they’ve started the spin for a UO SWAT team. Mr. Roll delivers the fear in the ODE, without a hint of skepticism. Remarkable: Campus shootings have become an increasing risk in recent years. They can happen at anytime, without warning, often…
5/26/2011: From Adeline Bash in the ODE: Among the recognition of the successes made over the past year was a call for Senate and administration to work together to do more. In a tearful speech, McNelly — recognized for her work to get voting rights for the University’s classified workers…
5/25/2011: Jack Bogdanski is not impressed: Her name is Monica Rimai, and she comes to Portlandia from the State University of New York, where she was the chief operating officer. She was at SUNY for just a year and a half; she was reportedly making $325,000 a year there, along…
5/25/2011: (reposted, original lost in the blogger reboot). Oregon’s unemployment rate is 10.5%, but UO is doing what it can to put people to work in key sectors of the American economy of the future. First there’s the mission critical “Cheer Advisor” job. The ad calls for: Proven ability to…
5/25/2011: From Rob Moseley in the RG talking about the recent NCAA release of academic progress: Oregon’s four-year average of 941 was ninth among Pac-12 teams, and the 932 for 2009-10 was 11th among the 12 teams that will make up the conference this fall. Oregon State scored 959 as…
5/24/2011: I missed the AAUP/AFT union event Tuesday afternoon. Announcement here. The union’s facebook site is here. Adeline Bash’s ODE story here: “It’s always gotten worse than I thought it would be,” Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said of his decade-long predictions that higher education…
5/23/2011: Frances Dyke’s “liar’s budget” says sworn armed UO police will cost us the equivalent of 3 RA positions a year. The truth is it has already cost us about 20 – the budget is up $500,000 or so. Why is a sworn police force UO’s top priority? From the…
5/23/2011: According to all the data, what UO needs most to keep our AAU status is more GTF/GRA positions. But instead we are going to spend the money on another administrator. I love the responsibilities part. “Develop a strategic communications plan.” What the fuck does this have to do with…
5/19/2011: Here’s a bit of highly relevant news for the UO faculty union movement, from Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed for union recognition last month — moving to become one of a small number of research universities to seek collective bargaining for professors, and…
5/19/2011: In case you were wondering what UO’s best paid professor is up to now. Jeff Manning in the Oregonian: Two influential Oregon lawyers have accused the current top criminal lawyer in the state Justice Department of lying to suspects to intimidate them, which they claim violates Oregon State Bar…
5/19/2011: Or the usual recession result? Don’t expect the NY Times to actually do any analysis. A quotefest from Catherine Rampell in the NY Times: The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work…
5/17/2011: The UO Foundation has finally submitted its 2009 IRS 990 form. This covers the FY from July 1 2009 to June 30 2010. That’s right, the most recent data the foundation will release is almost a year old. Download here. The IRS reporting requirements are tightening though, and this…
College Republicans, FIRE, Zoo
5/17/2011: Two posts from the OC: College Republican BBQ is Saturday at 1PM, organized by Zach Webb. Art Robinson will speak. Vegetarian option available. Lyzi Diamond writes on FIRE and how they would run the zoo.