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UW crushing UO on performative wokeness metrics

From FIRE: SEATTLE, July 13, 2022 — When Professor Stuart Reges challenged the University of Washington’s position on land acknowledgements, administrators punished him, undermining his academic freedom. Today, backed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Reges sued the university to vindicate his First Amendment right to express his opinion —…

Musical Deans

From Around the 0: Bruce Blonigen, currently the interim Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will take the helm of the Lundquist College of Business beginning July 15, serving a two-year appointment as dean. The current dean, Sarah Nutter, has decided to return to the faculty after…

Oregon’s support for higher ed has increased 4x faster than US average, is now close to median

UO’s Board of Trustees loves to blame our low faculty pay and constant tuition increases on underfunding by our state government. That is no longer true. I wonder who they’ll blame next? Here’s some data from SHEEO’s latest “State Effort Report”. The median state is Washington, Oregon is 2 spots…

Provost Phillips and President Schill are actually starting to deliver on academic initiatives

After years of overpromised and underdelivered crap like Jim Bean’s “5 Big Ideas”, UO finally has an administrative team with the smarts, energy, and enough credibility with donors and faculty to actually do new things. I like to bitch as much as the next professor, and plenty of reasonable people…

Dismal UO Climate Survey results “not to be copied, quoted, published or divulged to others”

I’m sure this purposefully brain-damaged “IDEAL” climate survey will provide endless busy work for DEI VP Alex-Assensoh and her staff. Might even have to hire some more. UO could have used Harvard’s COACHE survey for about $200K less than Gallup charged, but that would have meant having results that could…