12/4/2018: One of the trustees asked me about this, so I’m reposting it. 11/5/2018: At other big-time sports factories, the rate for athletes is just 3x higher than that for all students, all adjusting for numbers. While it’s pretty well established about 20% of college students are subject to sexual…
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018 – 10:00 a.m. Board Meeting. https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/for_website_meeting_packet_-_full_bot_12.04.18.pdf 1. ASUO and University Senate Reports Food is good, teaching evals are bad. 2. President’s Report Here’s the latest info on UO enrollment (week 4 headcount). Despite the increase in freshman admits shown yesterday, this is bad news: 3. Resolutions from Committee…
2:00 p.m. Executive and Audit Committee https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_packet_-_eac_12.3.18_final.pdf 1. Enterprise Risk Management – Semi-Annual Report: Andre Le Duc, Associate VP and Chief Resilience Officer I’m not seeing anything here on how much UO is paying United Academics for insurance, what the terms are, or how much of the cost reflects our various sports…
Since the Board’s official website is an unhelpful mess, here are the times and agendas for the committee and board meetings Monday and Tuesday, along with a few excerpts and some commentary. All events in the Ford Alumni Center. Monday meetings start at 10:30, Tuesday at 10. I’ll try and…
From Daniel Libit’s excellent college sports muckraking blog, UNMFishBowl.com. THE NMFISHBOWL PODCAST: JOSHUA HUNT By Daniel Libit For 45 years, college basketball featured two famous arenas dubbed, “The Pit,” one in Albuquerque, the other in Eugene, Oregon. In 2010, the University of New Mexico renovated its version of The Pit, University…
DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to order 3:05 PM Introductory Remarks; Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:20 PM Presentation on Teaching Evaluation reform; Ginger Clark, USC Associate Professor of Clinical Education and former Academic Senate President 3:50 PM…
This Wed, 9-10 in the library browsing room, and 3:20-3:50 at the Senate in the EMU Crater Lake room. From Around the O: Ginger Clark, assistant vice provost for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Southern California, will discuss improving teaching evaluation methods during a campus appearance Nov.…
These are a bit out of control – just take a look at my cousin Jim’s: Every now and then the NCAA university presidents say they are going to try and do something about this. The NCAA then tells them that anti-trust law prevents them from conspiring to lower wages,…
CNN has the latest: Trump says troops on US border can use ‘lethal force’.
As measured by the willingness to pay of the marginal spectator. You can buy a ticket to today’s civil war football game for $18. For comparison, Oregonians are willing to pay $140 to hear Robert Cray play the blues, $130 to see So You Think You Can Dance, and $50…
The original timeline is here. Two of the 22 members are UO Senators, elected by the Senate CAS Caucus. Karen Ford, chair of the task force, has agreed that the UO Senate should vote on any reorganization of CAS. Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar 11/20/2018 Dear Colleagues, President…
Sort of makes you wonder how Eric Roedl is still able to extract $1.7M in fees from ASUO for “free tickets”:
That would be the University of New Mexico. Daniel Libit has the story here: UNM COUGHS UP $35K TO EXIT RECORDS CASE By Daniel Libit The University of New Mexico continues to run up a tab for its anti-transparency past. As part of a recent settlement agreement, the school has agreed…
Turning Point is a well-funded right-wing agit-prop group that regularly tries to get me to repost links to their poorly written and researched stories about left-wing agit-prop professors, e.g. a recent one about the fact that no UO faculty give money to Republican candidates. (The $5K that Chuck Lillis gave…