Or at least they search for UOMatters more than they search for Around the O: You’ve got to admire Kyle Henley for continuing to try though.
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The GAO is basically Congress’s audit division. Congress asked them to look into the Chinese government supported Confucius Institutes. About 100 US colleges, including UO, have these. The GAO asked to meet with CI administrators and a selection of faculty. They also scheduled a 30 minute meeting with me, as…
Ryan Nguyen and Michael Tobin have the story in the Emerald. While other university’s have been sued for closing frats and expelling students for exercising their first amendment rights to act like fucking morons, UO’s student conduct office cleverly nailed them on a hazing violation instead. Great idea. Read the story for…
Personally I don’t care where it goes, although it wouldn’t look out of place on Nantucket. Just get the damn thing out of the middle of campus. The proposal is to use the site for a classroom/faculty offices building, which sounds perfect. The Campus Planning Committee is meeting tomorrow at…
Michael Tobin has the story of the incident, and what it took to get these public records from UO in the Emerald here: The University of Oregon Police Department released officer body camera footage this Tuesday of a spring term incident during which a student said officers pointed guns at him outside of the…
The RG has the report on today’s arborcide here: Last time this didn’t end well:
A reader asks: … perhaps it is time for this website to focus less on issues we cannot change and more on those we can. Here’s a few to start: 1) Lack of long term academic vision by the administration; 2) Administrative refusal to include faculty as partners in decisions;…
12/23/2019: Ever since the 1973 oil embargo our country has had to suck-up to murderous potentates like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and send our soldiers to die in endless Middle East wars to keep the imports flowing. Meanwhile, some clever and well incentivized entrepreneurs figured out how to…
While our General Counsel’s Public Records Office is still stonewalling requests for the Hayward Field lease agreement between UO and Phit LLC, today Duck spokesperson Tobin Klinger told the RG that UO is no longer in control: … The privately funded rebuild of the stadium is being led by Nike…
Fortunately we’ve got the Internet Archive: Free Speech Guidelines Rights, rules, responsibilities, and resources At the University of Oregon, established guidelines protect the right to free speech, while ensuring that opposing views may also be expressed. The basic guideline says that whenever one person’s or one group’s activities prevent another’s sanctioned…
Thanks to an alert reader for the link to UT’s puff piece.
At Temple, Inside Higher Ed here.
Audio file here. Adams was a fierce supporter of former artistic director Matthew Halls during Lintgate, and the word down at the faculty club is that the festival’s PR flacks are not happy about this free publicity. OBF ticket info here, bio on Ms Adams here.
I’m kidding, that’s just bargaining. But when a professor lies to his dean about an outside offer, that’s a felony: FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A former professor at Colorado State University is facing a felony charge for fabricating an outside job offer to improve his status at CSU. Professor…
From June 8, just getting around to posting. Video here: I’m posting this in part because of today’s Op-Ed in the Oregonian from Oregon Association of Scholars President (and PSU PoliSci prof) Bruce Gilley, which inaccurately characterizes the UO Senate’s resolution in support of the free-speech rights of our students as…