After taking an extra month – what’s the hurry when you bill by the hour – UO’s lawyers finally filed a response to Professor Freyd’s gender discrimination lawsuit. The case is now set for jury trial on Sept 17, 2018. Docket here, UO’s response here. It looks like UO’s lawyers, Paula A.…
Posts published by “UO Matters”
No, this is not about Duck basketball coach Dana Altman and AD Rob Mullens, or Joe Paterno. The latest athletics scandal is at Oregon State. Oregonian reporter John Canzano is shocked to hear that that their baseball coach and AD knew that the player was a registered sex offender, but didn’t tell…
Emma Henderson reports in the Daily Emerald here: “… too much of a sellout to the administration…” Despite this, the Senate re-elected Harbaugh as VP for 2017-18, and as President for 2018-19. No one else ran. The good news is that Chris Sinclair (Math) will be Senate President for the coming year.
Kenny Jacoby in the Emerald, here: Oregon track and field coaches routinely deny interview requests on student-athletes’ behalf in order to control which stories about the team are disseminated in the news media, the Emerald has found. Multiple times the Emerald has requested interviews with student-athletes during the indoor and…
I’m swamped, got plenty of public records and legal stuff to post but no time until next week.
The RG has the news here. And I didn’t realize faculty, staff and students get free admission. Thanks.
ESPN has the latest on Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz, and Tim Curley here.
FRIDAY: 8:30 am: Liveblog disclaimer: I’m no neuroscience professor. 2. Research Area in Focus ‐ Neuroscience: Chris Doe, Professor of Biology and Co‐Director of the Institute of Neuroscience (ION); Chris Doe starts off with a talk about how scientists can now grow self-organizing functional clusters of neurons from skin cells, and use these to study early brain-development and study drug effectiveness. David McCormick, Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Yale University McCormick…
The RG has the story here. Here’s the softball cash flow: $135K in tickets, ~$700K on salaries, and $624K on “miscellaneous”:
All sessions in the Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom. The BOT’s hard to navigate website is here. Livecast here. Here’s what you need to know, with handy links. Live-blog if I have time. THURSDAY: 8AM: Academic and Student Affairs Committee Materials. 1.School and College Finances: Allocation Redesign, Provost Hiring Initiative, and Existing Gap Analyses:Scott Coltrane, Senior Vice President and Provost; Brad Shelton, Senior Vice Provost for Budget and Strategic Planning; Christoph Lindner, Dean, College of Design 2. Student Health Insurance – Model and Practices: Roger Thompson, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management, and LeAnn Gutierrez, Executive Director of the University Health Center 10AM: Finance and Facilities Committee…
That would be in Australia, from the (London) Times. For a cogent explanation of how higher education has been one of the U.S.’s most successful export industries – and I know how painful it must be for some of our Trustees to admit that professors have done better than timber…
InsideHigherEd, here: I moved into an apartment in a University of Southern California undergraduate residence hall as an assistant professor in the summer of 1989. … Over the years, I’ve watched the USC student affairs function and staff professionalize, just as they have at most other institutions. Positions that were…
It’s a common conundrum – how do you get rid of a bad administrator? Fire them, or help them move on to another university by writing a good letter? The UF Dean of Students took the later approach with her Title IX Coordinator – and it ended with both of them…
Jock has developed quite a following among those at UO who are interested in what’s happening in Salem, given that UO’s own State Affairs Office has a hard time rounding up 5 votes in the HECC. His latest: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] May Update: Revenue issues, upcoming deadlines, and…
That would be at Evergreen State, a public university in Washington. Scott Jaschik of InsideHigherEd has the story here. Comments comparing this to UO’s reaction to the “Halloween Incident” are welcome, but I’m enforcing Euler’s Rule with vigor.