I wonder how long before one of Rob Mullens’ unpaid student-athletes stands up to the system. Probably a while. They are pretty scared, and with good reason. The Washington Post explains: … The NCAA released a statement of its own, saying the kickoff specialist could have kept making the YouTube…
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Seems he’s pretty well qualified: Around the O has more here: Wineland in the news A Nobel for Teasing Out the Secret Life of Atoms (The New York Times) Quantum Computing Wins a Nobel (The New Yorker) Scientists are close to building a quantum computer that can beat a conventional one(Science Magazine)…
Gosh, I wonder whose idea this was. Faculty with 9 month contracts start on Sept 15. Classes start Sept 25th. And the UO Board of Trustees meets Sept 7-8. But at least the Board’s December meeting will be at a time when our Trustees can expect to have a chance…
The variance on the prediction that the rate of return on investments over the next 20 years will be 7.2% and not 7.5% is so large that those PERS consultants willing to say 7.2% with a straight face must be very well paid indeed. As Professor Fearless explains in today’s…
InsideHigherEd here. Also see Ted Bergstrom’s page here. Why is the prestigious AAU apparently doing nothing to help its librarians combine to fight the predatory monopolistic science publishers? The non-profit JSTOR once seemed like it had some promise, but now it seems to function as a part of the big…
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KEZI has a good if brief video report on SAIL here. KLCC has a report here, and Around the O here. SAIL is UO’s largest and most successful diversity initiative. The goal is to get more HS students that “should go to college, but are not now on the college track”…
I’m no brother of the Shenandoah Stonewall Jackson (sic) Council of The Order of the Arrow, but I now understand why we kept that red-hot poker in the campfire:
UOM agents have acquired photographic evidence that the new Hayward Field “cell phone tower” – Diane Dietz story here – is actually a disguised Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, now in the final stages of fueling. The Duck athletic department, whose leadership has long viewed UO’s faculty as an existential threat, now…
Andrew Greif has the explanation here: a large downward shift in demand from fans with better things to do. But don’t cry for Willie Taggart yet, AAD Eric Roedl will respond by hitting up our students for still more money.
Dylan Darling in the RG here.
From the informative transformit.uoregon.edu website: A message from Jessie Minton, Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer: I am excited to announce an important change in the way the university will proceed with Transform IT. We will first inventory IT services offered across the university, and then we…
Patrick Hruby’s award winning long-form report has one hell of a lede: While the NCAA’s rules governing college athletes are colorblind, the impact of amateurism is anything but—disproportionately costing black football and men’s basketball players and benefiting white stakeholders by as much as $2 billion a year. … Today he…
Nature is of course one of the most prestigious, highest impact science journals. Their editors think UO’s new plan has it backwards. Instead of making decisions about budget and pay based on what faculty have already published, they think we should give money to promising faculty, to do promising new…