4/4/2011: Counting benefits, retirement. 2009-2010 data, obtained by the Chronicle of Higher Ed via what I am sure was many, many public records/FOIA requests and published last week: The four-year institutions shown here comprise (public) universities with total fall enrollments of at least 10,000 that are classified by the Carnegie…
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4/3/2011: I don’t know why the RG has not been printing much about this scandal, or this one. You really need to read the Oregonian to keep up with how corrupt Oregon’s one party state government has become.
4/3/2011: Well at least someone around here is getting a raise. Must need it to match the extravagant style UO’s Development office administrators expect to become accustomed to in their new office palace. These people have no shame, spending donor money on this instead of research space, classrooms, faculty offices,…
4/1/2011: From Glenn May, in the Oregonian.
3/30/2011: My report from the diversity meeting today. This was billed as the session for faculty and staff. Turnout was low – there were about 8 search committee people, maybe 5 faculty, and about 40 staff. Make what you will of the disinterest on the part of the faculty. If…
3/30/2011: Bill Graves now has a story in the Oregonian. This email from Pres Lariviere is very positive news, though not for this session. Bummer. Lariviere’s letter to Kitzhaber is here, Kitzhaber’s reply is here. Kitzhaber’s bill would abolish OUS and the Chancellor’s office. Details here, page down and follow…
3/30/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story about a successful effort to encourage students from a small rural Oregon HS to go to college. The raw stats are pretty striking: An analysis by The Oregonian found the percentages of 2009 graduates who went on to one of…
3/29/2011: My understanding is that UO is currently insured under the state pool. What will happen under the OUS and the new partnership plans? Private insurance could get very expensive: Still, the liability question looms—for the lawyers, anyway. Boston University researchers have found CTE in the brain of a college…
3/29/2011: From Katie Thomas in the NY Times: … The most serious revelations involve nearly a dozen employees who told investigators that the chief executive and others working for the bowl encouraged them to make political contributions, then reimbursed them with phony bonus payments. Some said they then were pressured…
3/28/2011: UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity needs a new Vice President. It’s a big job, with a large budget and staff, control of a lot of dedicated funds, and in the right hands it has the potential for a lot of positive impact. The hiring committee was appointed…
3/27/2011 Update: UO has now removed these offers to lease undeveloped land from one part of the RRP website but not another. Randy Geller fuckup? Let’s hope this is the beginning of a serious effort to reform the public input process and get some needed development in the parts of…
3/27/2011: Ralph Nader’s proposal is to ban the players from accepting scholarships. So the coach and AD can take even more? How un-american. These players have a much better idea – sue for the right to sell their skills to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, here in Oregon state senator Peter…
3/26/2011: of the House higher ed subcommittee on the New Partnership plan. From David Sarasohn in the Oregonian: “(UO President) Richard (Lariviere) was really bold in doing what he did there, and people had their toes stepped on,” says Harker, “but he really pushed the conversation in a significant way.”……
3/25/2011: The Oregonian has a fabulous website for keeping up with our legislature. Read the bill, the amendments, email the sponsors, see it has made it into/out of committee, listen to the hearings. (You’ll need a real audio player – the internet equivalent of 8-track. Free here.) Here are some…
3/25/2011: The economist Charles Clotfelter, at Duke, has a new book: Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Apparently library JSTOR downloads dip in the two days after a team wins a BBall tournament. I’ll read and see if the other empirical findings are more significant. Here is a quote from the…