9/23/2010: The “Dream Act” would have given people who were brought into the country illegally as minors by their parents a road to citizenship. Anne Saker of the Oregonian gives one example: Lopez was 6 weeks old in 1990 when his parents came into the country illegally and settled in…
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9/22/2010: John Hunt has an Oregonian story on the latest in Ducks basketball troubles. They are expected to fall below NCAA academic standards in Spring, and then have their allowable practice time and scholarship support cut – unless the NCAA gives the new coach a break. A commenter points out…
9/22/2010: USA Today has been doing a lot of good reporting on college athletics, backed up by a database they painfully compile from FOIA requests to public schools for the reports those schools submit to the NCAA. (The NCAA – a non-profit which gets a tax-exemption by arguing they act…
9/21/2010: The new website for the proposed faculty union is a bit sleepy, but has a few new posts. Meanwhile, the SEIU staff union is fighting OUS over the furlough situation: The Oregon University System is refusing to eliminate furloughs for classified workers. OUS Labor Relations Director Rick Hampton and…
Update: VP for Finance Frances Dyke has issued the first of what I am guessing will be many corrections to the memo below. I’ll post the final version after they converge. [PLEASE NOTE: The original version of this e-mail contained an error regarding past increases in faculty/staff parking fees. Rates…
9/16/2010: I don’t know the details but some sort of scandal is brewing with the bball team. George Schroeder of the RG has a piece on it here. Presumably some sports agent gave one of the players a few grand to make it through the school year before he signed…
9/16/2010: From a report in the Chronicle by Katherine Margan: Faculty members at Texas A&M University are, by and large, generating more money than they are costing the university, although some of the most prestigious professors would appear to be operating in the red, according to a controversial report prepared…
9/15/2010: “Transformative change has been seeded.” Effective Aug 2011, he’ll return to teaching and research in the School of Ed, presumably while trying to keep his second job at OSLC. My opinion of Martinez and what he has done is not a secret. This is an opportunity for a big…
9/15/2010: Despite the steady national, state, and local declines in property crime and violent crime (reported in recent front page stories in the RG and the Oregonian), and the continued decline in state support for UO, it turns out that Frances Dyke has authorized some pretty serious and expensive efforts…
9/14/2010: More women than men are now in PhD programs, and the current growth in PhD numbers is also mostly from women – even in math, engineering, and physical sciences. From Scott Jaschik in Insidehighered.com: Average Annual Change in Number of New Doctoral Degrees, by Gender, 1998-9 to 2008-9 Field…
9/12/2010: Ed Ray, OSU President – and an economist – has a long Op-Ed in the Oregonian, bemoaning falling state support for higher ed. It’s the usual we provide a public good so taxpayers need to give us more money. That ship has sailed, what’s plan B? Does he support…
9/10/2010: VP for Budget and Planning Brad Shelton has a new website for his new Budget Model. http://budgetmodel.uoregon.edu. We just got the news, but it looks like another big step forward for transparency at UO. I particularly like the no bullshit FAQ. Example: Why would you use a budget system…
9/10/2010: From a Sports Illustrated column: … a national study in 1995 that examined the campus police records and internal judicial affairs records at 20 Division I institutions, most of which had top basketball or football programs. Among other things, we found that male student-athletes comprised 3.3 percent of the…
9/9/2010: Ron Bellamy has a long interview with AD Ron Mullens in the RG. He likes the Jock Box and thinks it didn’t take away from anything else. Really? How much did the academic side get for the land? $1. How much are we going to pay just to replace…
9/8/2010: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a story on the latest results on research spending at Oregon universities: The average UO professor brings in a lot more than I would have guessed! I wonder that the median is. We’ve reported before that UO’s research expenditures on a per student…