4/19/2011: From Saul Hubbard in the RG. The vote was pretty much split on party lines: Democrats for, Republicans against. When the Oregon Republicans vote as a block against a law and order bill because they think it it in an unconscionable infringement on the liberties of those uppity pinko…
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4/19/2011: Stefan Verbano in the ODE has details. (Also see Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Read the comments if you dare.) One of the faculty union proponents, Anne McLucas, is quoted in the ODE: According to OUS data, upper-level administrative costs have risen 63 percent from 2006 to 2010, while…
4/18/2011: From Maxine Bernstein in the Oregonian. He was not armed, fortunately. OSU contracts with the Oregon state police for armed officers in those unusual cases where they are needed. When it comes to the debate over an armed and sworn UO police force, I can see arguing this one…
4/18/2011: Physicist Steve Hsu in the Boston Globe: Even though the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that universities can continue to consider race in admissions in the interest of diversity, admissions officers deny they’re screening out Asian-Americans. However, in researching their 2009 book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, Princeton…
4/18/2011: I sprung for the NYT 99 cent trial: Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field, according to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement: nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a…
4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website. Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax…
4/18/2011: I just got an email from PEBB: *CORRECTION*You received the below email with invalid links to the websites. Please use the links below. We apologize for any inconvenience. … But the links in the new email actually seem the same. I did successfully register using the procedure below. I…
4/16/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian gives the background, stirred by the memory of UO journalism professor Ken Metzler. You can read excerpts from Metzler’s book on Johnson here: This is just one little incident – caused by the Daily Emerald printing the phrase “Mother Fuckers” on state owned equipment.…
4/15/2011 update: The standard way around the confidentiality issues is to hire a trusted independent firm to collect the data and interview employees. In 2009 VP Frances Dyke did hire such a firm, Stan McKnight and Associates – but she hired them to do some union busting for the AAUP/AFT…
reports Frances Dyke is searching around for a scapegoat to stick the ORSA collapse / Huron boondoggle on. Uh, that’s your name on the contracts, Ms Dyke.
4/14/2011: Last week I asked Liz Denecke for a copy of the Huron consulting report – which the contract amendment says was to be complete by 3/15. Turns out Dyke and Huron mutually agreed to put it off until the end of June. OK, I’ve now asked for copies of…
4/14/2011: Looks like our croissant loving Chancellor, Dr. George Pernsteiner, has come through for independence. Bill Graves in the Oregonian: A bill that would free Oregon universities from hundreds of state agency regulations and give them more control over their money and operations appears to have all the support it…
4/13/2011: A very good idea: Preferred Background Experience in student recruitment, education advocacy, or college counseling Proficiency and fluency (grammar, spelling, syntax, structure) in both written and spoken Spanish Experience with, or graduation from, the University of Oregon This is a full time, 12-month, fixed-term appointment. Salary range is $29,000…
4/13/2011: This just in from Bean. Excellent news, she was the search committee’s top choice. And this was a real national search with real faculty on the hiring committee. Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the hiring of Kimberly A. Espy as the University of Oregon’s new Vice President…
4/13/2011: (Updated, Verbano ODE story here, bojack.org here.) A random dump of a few months of OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner’s expense accounts. Our Chancellor does not let a croissant pass his lips without charging it to the taxpayers and students. Extrapolating, it looks like about $7000 in per diem charges per…