It’s hiring season, and prospective hires often have at least one of these two sometimes unspoken questions: How hard will it be to find a partner here? How hard will it be to find good child-care here? The answer to question 2 should be “easy”, but it’s not. The University…
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The l*wsuit threat is resolved, and the show is on. Facebook event info here. 8pm, Saturday, February 1. Aasen-Hull Hall (RM 190) UO School of Music and Dance, 961 East 18th Ave. Eugene. Admission: free, BYOB.
Good news for the aging 1% of the population that cares about classical music, from Bob Keefer in the Eugene Weekly: … Two and a half years ago, OBF was in in chaos. The University of Oregon, which has run OBF since its beginning in 1970, had suddenly and without…
From Matthew Kish in the Portland Business Journal: An attorney for celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Nike. The attorney, Howard Srebnick, made the claim in his opening statement in a criminal trial in which federal prosecutors allege Avenatti tried to extort Nike. The trial is…
Back in in the day the land now occupied by the Jaqua Center for Student Athletes – or as the NYT calls it the Jock Box – was a parking lot, mostly used by OA’s in Oregon Hall. In 2010 or so UO gave the land to the Ducks, for…
This was one of the small pro-transparency changes she agreed to make – only after the Governor’s office, the Senate, faculty union, and some legislators pushed back on the secrecy and lack of input regarding recent board appointments. She has also added website tab that gives some brief info about…
$384K for Law School Dean Burke, $734K for Pres Schill:
The market has spoken. $30 for a big-time wrestling seat vs $10 for Duck women’s basketball, and $16 for Dana Altman: And unlike Rob Mullens, WWE actually pays its athletes, and its taxes.
Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be open this week during the usual hours, with gatherings on Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00. Wednesday, we join Scots and Scot-o-philes around the world in the annual celebration of the birthday of revolutionary poet Robert Burns (b. 1759). Barbara Mossberg, poet…
Jack Forrest has the report in the Daily Emerald here: University of Oregon students with a 3.5 GPA upon graduation and an SAT or ACT score in the top 85th percentile will not be required to take the Law School Admissions Test to apply to the UO School of Law.…
2/9/2020: Claire McMorris, Government Relations Coordinator, Oregon State University, submits this statement from the PAC-12 sponsored student-athlete group. Unsurprisingly, they support the cartel that sponsors them (and whose lawyers presumably drafted it) and oppose even Courtney’s weak bill. 2/6/2020: UO’s Rob Mullens showed up to testify: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2020R1/Committees/SED/2020-02-06-13-00/SB1501/Details video soon 1/27/2020:…
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Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College Cher Hsuehhsiang Li, Basit Zafar NBER Working Paper No. 26703 Issued in January 2020 NBER Program(s):Economics of Education Program, Labor Studies Program Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent…