Sorry, long post. The UO Public Records Office currently has many unfilled requests for public documents, going back as far as August. They haven’t yet filled any of the requests they’ve received since January 17, more than a month ago, except for boilerplate requests for coaches contracts or directories. A lot of…
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That would be the Creighton University law faculty. The Omaha World-Herald has the news here: A professor at Creighton University has agreed to return to the law school today after he was temporarily suspended by the school’s dean. Kenneth Melilli, who won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching…
That would be Oregon State University. These posts from Jock Mills are getting a little more circumspect given the backroom dealing now going on in Salem, but still pretty interesting: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] Salem Update: The first weeks of the 2017 session, Ways & Means roadshow hearings…
Dean of the School of Law Four candidates for the dean of the School of Law will be on campus to meet with faculty, students, and campus leaders beginning Thursday, February 16. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend the public presentations by each candidate. The names and background…
Steve Mims has the news in the RG here: Oregon drew an average of 7,467 fans last year, but that number will rise to 9,895 this season after another full house of 12,364 shows up for the home finale. That is the largest average attendance since 9,984 watched at McArthur…
Update: In the Chronicle. Seriously? Stanford is now firing the followers of Seneca and Epictetus? Students petition to reinstate university lawyer fired for talking to press That would be at Stanford: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/13/stanford-students-launch-petition-to-reinstate-attorney/
It’s nice waking up to an email like this, and being able to tell the very effective TPM task force their work is done. One less weekly meeting! More on the Senate website here: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/senate/2017/02/14/open-mike-free-expression-on-campus-rights-and-some-responsibilities/ From: Mike Schill <[email protected]> Subject: Time, Place and Manner rules Date: February 14, 2017 at 5:51:47…
UO is hiring Jayanth Banavar from UMD as Provost. Since it was a closed search, only a subset of faculty met with the finalists. The Senate Pres and VP got 45 minutes with each. This guy was impressive, interesting, genuine, smart, funny, and he has my complete buy-in: Dear University of…
Update: The Daily Emerald’s Emma Henderson reports on student opposition to the restrictions, which the administration has given the Orwellian title of “The Time, Place, Manner and Protection of Speech Policy”. 2/12/2017: The UO administration wants to make peaceful protests a crime. They have proposed a new policy that will…
The Chronicle of Higher Education prints Kevin Birmingham’s brutal description of the divide between tenured and contingent faculty: How the humanities survive on exploitation
Diane Dietz has the good news here: The University of Oregon Foundation proved itself among the best in the country for shepherding university endowment cash in 2016 — and far better than Harvard or Princeton. The overall UO endowment grew 5.5 percent last year compared with an average loss of…
An excerpt from Pres Schill’s letter: As I have already noted, we will do everything we can to shield our most vulnerable students from the impact of this proposed tuition increase. The PathwayOregon program continues to provide full tuition and fees to about 2,000 Pell Grant–eligible resident students on our…
The UO administration finally gave the UO Senate a copy of their proposal to restrict free speech, here, and the Senate is now working on a less restrictive policy. The Chronicle has a new report on the state legislation here (gated if off campus). An excerpt: … So far, all of the lawmakers…
Great news – just as President Gottfredson promised the Senate he’d try and do! This will certainly help reduce the expected tuition increases! Just kidding, this news is from the University of Wisconsin athletic department. And of course there’s some funny accounting anyway – story here. But still, it’s progress. How did it…