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…
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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…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-uc-irvine-rescissions-20170728-story.html
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…
The RG has his obit here. I only met him once, at the Lariviere firing meeting in Portland. He was furious at Pernsteiner, Kitzhaber, and the OUS board. Here’s his op-ed from the Oregonian, published just before that meeting: On Monday, the State Board of Higher Education will meet to…
It was the tweet.* Jack Pitcher has the scoop in the Emerald. I wonder if Tom Hart, the Duck’s social media cop, caught it? Maybe Rob Mullens will get Dana Altman under control next. * Instagram, actually. Is there a “team rule” about that too?
The RG reports on the legal settlement of a case of the latter kind: … While working as a professor of exercise science, Richardson advised NCU officials in May 2015 that she was an expectant mother. In response, university administrators gave her a choice: If she wanted to keep her job,…