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That’s the conclusion of the Heterodox Academy, a group of about 1000 professors interested in promoting intellectual diversity. (Chicago is #1). We lose points for our low rating from FIRE and for the related recent anti-free speech efforts of our administration – some of which have been beaten off by…
That would be the University of British Columbia. Jennifer Berdahl’s blog has the details here.
Their enrollment is down 35%, but their faculty count is up and the new hiring plan gives them 2 TTF hires. If this were the humanities, the dean would be laying off NTTF’s and freezing TTF hiring. I don’t know why the law school gets special treatment. These may be…
This press release from the Oregon Senate Republican Whip might be slightly over the top. Full disclosure: I’m the UAUO Union Bagman, a.k.a. Treasurer, and I’m going to assume he meant to write “Big Union bogeymen”: from the office of SENATE MINORITY WHIP DENNIS LINTHICUM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26,…
CNN has the news.
Ted Sickinger has had a series of stories in the Oregonian on the BETC program: Tax credits became big business in Oregon after the legislature and then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski supersized the state’s long running energy program to provide developers with up to $10 million per project. The state ultimately issued nearly $1…
The PCS site at https://pcs.uoregon.edu/content/business-opportunities is a mix of RFPs for “Parking Management Solutions”, “Executive Buzzword Coaches“, “Proposals from qualified Proposers for Clean kitchen grease / exhaust hoods, including all hood surfaces, grease filters, fans, fan housing, fan blades and associated ductwork”, and attempts to find a brave consultant willing to try running…
This is not about UO and Jennifer Freyd. It’s Willamette University, in a Title IX case brought by members of the women’s rowing team. In both cases the plaintiffs are represented by Jennifer Middleton of Eugene’s Johnson, Johnson, Lucas and Middleton LLC, and the universities by Paula Barran et al…
The decision was unanimous. The Washington Post’s Eugene Volokh has the analysis here. Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Elena Kagan’s concurring opinion reads as if written specifically in response to the UO administration’s discipline of law school professor Nancy Shurtz: The Government may not insulate a law from charges of viewpoint…
to compete with the coaches and AD’s money-making. Click here to subscribe to his youtube video.
Just a reminder to self, interesting IHE story here.
Dear General Counsel’s Office: Can a professor accept a bottle of Macallan 12 double-cask from a graduating student, after grades have been submitted? Asking for a friend. Thanks, UO Matters
Yet the RG is reporting that Duck AD Rob Mullens is going to throw more money at Coach Horton. Data from Google Trends:
And promptly received them from the Senate, at no charge. From UO’s Public Records log here: