5/2/2011: From Kevin Kiley at Insidehighered.com: One major argument that organizers said stuck with faculty members was that professors consistently felt like they had no voice in university governance. … AFT and AAUP are currently working with faculty members at the University of Oregon to establish a union there, though…
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5/1/2011: This NY Times article discusses how the UT system is working with state K-12 programs, in some creative ways.
4/28/2011: You can make quite a bit of money in academia, as long as your job does not involve teaching students or doing research. We wrote last year about UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s big raise: As GC, Melinda Grier had been paid $184,710 – this was after 12 years…
4/26/2010: Read it all. Full text here. This is an astoundingly revealing letter to the UO research community, from VP for Research Rich Linton and VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke. Both senior administrators are now leaving their jobs. Linton was fired did not have his contract renewed by…
Update, 4/27/2011: One week after my post below, Barack Obama finally released his long form birth certificate. Coincidence? Every other sentient being on the planet may think so, but not me and this other guy with a website. With the help of Donald Trump and Oregon Attorney General John Kroger,…
Update, 4/27/2011: I went to today’s faculty forum, moderated by Larry Singell. It was well attended, and people seemed relatively open about speaking their minds. The review committee made it very clear that they would not report quotes or attribute statements to particular speakers, and that people were free to…
4/27/2011: This fight has to give the union supporters pause. The AFT says “part-timers must have full voting rights on all union matters, including the election of officers and the ratification of contracts.”
4/26/2011: From Mat Wolf in the ODE: An official complaint alleging sexual harassment and unlawful employment practices within the University’s Department of Public Safety was filed with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries last summer. In the complaint, Jennifer Parker, a former DPS employee whose employment was terminated on…
4/27/2014: That would be in North Dakota. The SPLC has the story here. 5/26/2011: University foundations to follow open records law In California, that is. The UO Foundation is no fan of transparency. Last year they actually went to Attorney General Kroger and procured a special ruling exempting them from…
4/25/2011: Not news to any college professor, from Sam Dillon in the NY Times. It’s all up to us:
4/25/2010: An interesting result from a UO Psych professor, described in the RG: In experiments involving 100 students at UBC, the researchers found that a belief in God doesn’t deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as mean and punishing.
4/25/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian, on the battle between the cheer athletic associations. (Read the many comments at the bottom of her story – pretty hilarious – and yet no so hilarious.)
4/23/2011: At a recent “visioning session” for the UO diversity office, a speaker from the local minority community made the very accurate point that UO’s outreach efforts were mostly focused on the athletic department – not on recruiting high academic performing minority students interested in college. The economist Charles Clotfelter,…
4/23/2011: This is not going to make it easier for the New Partnership plan. Christen McCurdy in the Lund Report.
4/21/2011: Good news from Kim Melton in the Oregonian – but many more hoops until Pernsteiner is out of a job and cut off from his expense accounts.