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University of Nike podcast

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…

Senate meets today, 3-5PM on teaching evals, leg agenda, dual careers

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…

Grad student union unequivocally condemns University for hosting speaker

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…

Salary equity adjustments update, Freyd lawsuit, UO lawyers “blame it on the union” again

Two interesting processes are coming to a head soon. First is the lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd alleging UO underpaid her for years, despite the pleas of her department head to the CAS associate dean, and the conclusions of an external review committee. See my “Nevertheless she persisted” post here.…