5/2/2019 update:
The Oregonian’s James Crepea has the scoop here:
Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens is a candidate for the recently vacated position at Texas A&M, according to a source with knowledge of the search. …
Which is sort of odd, because when he got his last raise he said he wanted to stay in Eugene and raise his family here.
7/7/2017: Rob Mullens’ secret $10M 8-year porkalicious contract & perverse incentives
Senators and Presidents at the Faculty Club, January 29, 2019 Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club is open this week, at the usual times (5-8 on Wednesday and Thursday). Wednesday, rub elbows with the UO Senators, many of whom repair to the Faculty Club after their body adjourns—this is an excellent…
As the RG sinks into the abyss, the Eugene Weekly is doing a more and more impressive job in keeping tabs on local government, with the help of UO journalism students. Their latest: An Unsuccessful Solution … • Nearly 30 percent of people who completed the Community Court program have…
Hannah Kanik, here: Sonja Boos, co-chair of the committee on sexual and gender based violence, said the policy aims to protect students from authority figures abusing power. … Going forward, the committee will begin a push to inform students of the policy so they are aware of their rights, Boos said. “The…
1/13/2019 update: UO football player Sam Poutasi suing UO, Taggart 1 day after Doug Brenner files similar lawsuit Jack Butler and Shawn Medow had the scoop on the second lawsuit in the Daily Emerald on Friday. There are many national news stories on this now, including Austin Meek in the…
Wow is this a dumb move. Here’s hoping their Senate takes action to defend his academic freedom. From InsideHigherEd: Peter Boghossian A hoax revealing that academic journals had accepted fake papers on topics from canine “rape culture” in dog parks to “fat bodybuilding” to an adaption of Mein Kampf met with applause and…
The Chicago Tribune has the story here: A bitter lawsuit between Chicago State University and two professors who published a blog rebuking school leadership is coming to an end after more than four years. Chicago State has agreed to pay $650,000 in damages and attorneys fees to professors Robert Bionaz and Phillip…
An excellent, nuanced story on the statewide program that pays community college tuition for state residents, including undocumented residents, here.
You may recall that there was a bit of trouble in the EMU last time. This year the Eugene City Club is holding it, off campus. UO gave the city club a $5K donation to become a sponsor, contract here. I’ve been told by one City Club member that the…
UO physicist Raghu Parthasarathy’s Eighteenth Elephant blog has a fascinating post about changes in what students are majoring in, here. It was motivated by this report about the decline in history majors, which included this remarkable figure: Obviously there have been huge shifts in what sorts of knowledge undergraduates demand. Raghu takes…
But what did Reed promise UO would do? It’s now almost 4 weeks six weeks since I asked for this agreement. Eventually they’ll run out of ways to hide it:
09/28/2018
Dear Mr. Harbaugh:
The University of Oregon, Office of Public Records has received your public records request for “The document I am looking for is called a “Facilitated Resolution Agreement” and it was signed by General Counsel Kevin Reed on or about August 21.” on 09/21/2018, attached.
The University is the custodian of at least some of the records you have requested. …
You don’t say.
9/21/2018 update: GC Kevin Reed cuts deal with Betsy DeVos & wants $378.49 to show the terms
Apparently Dean Lindner thinks he can, and Provost Banavar is backing him up. I’m wondering how we can recruit new faculty if they know that their job can be moved from, say, Eugene to Portland without their consent. This does not seem well thought out. Fortunately for the sake of…
September 19, 2018 Dear University of Oregon faculty members, I am pleased to share with you some important information regarding the fiscal year 2019 salary increases for both represented and non-represented tenure-track faculty (TTF) and career non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) at the University of Oregon. The fiscal year salary increases will…
I’m no slave to metrics, but who are you going to believe? Professor Christine Blasey, who’s most cited work is the very useful sounding Sage book on “Statistical Power Analysis in Research“, with 1343 citations since 2015: With increased emphasis on helping readers understand the context in which power calculations are done,…
Thanks to a helpful reader for the link. A snippet: These last few years have been tough for higher education. Enrollment is down year after year, state funding increases have stalled even as costs skyrocket, and most people don’t have much confidence overall in American colleges and universities. The standard explanation within academia for these…