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UO Board of Trustees posts skimpy agenda for March 2,3 meetings

BOT March 3 meetings: 30 month delay in internal audit of “significant risks” and “negative impact of unfortunate events in athletics” Sorry, I’m skipping today. Looks like the livecast link below is now working, and Max Thornberry is tweeting here: https://twitter.com/Max_Thornberry There’s an updated version of the BOT materials here, and I…

Professor Rob Mullens gives Schill, faculty, & IAAC his “Athletics 101” lecture

This should be interesting. 9AM in Johnson Hall: Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee (IAAC) Meeting Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:00 am - 10:00 am Johnson Hall Conference Room, Room 105 Agenda Introductions and ground rules - Chair Athletics 101 - Rob Mullens Services for Student-Athletes - Steve Stolp NCAA and PAC12…

Disgraced GC Melinda Grier started claim that Duck coaches are professors

3/1/2017:  ESPN picks up the story, here: The University of Oregon is writing a new policy that could make coaches’ disciplinary records inaccessible to the public under Freedom of Information Act laws. According to The Register-Guard, the policy “explicitly says the personnel records of about 1,400 staff members, called ‘officers…

UO grade inflation continues, after reform efforts fail

Will Campbell has an excellent data driven story with the history of UO’s failed efforts to fight grade inflation in the Emerald here: … In 2009, when [CAS Associate Dean Ian McNeely] became chair of the Undergraduate Council, the university-wide body that oversees undergraduate education, he became familiar with grade inflation.…

Duck’s Willie Taggart brings UO more of that national publicity money can’t buy

2/24/2017: The Washington Post takes a break from their coverage of President Donald Trump’s decision to ban NYT reporters from his press briefings to pick up the story on Duck coach Willie Taggart’s decision to ban Oregonian reporter Andrew Greif, from UO student-journalist Kenny Jacoby: The WaPo report is a bit sloppy though,…

State economists deliver good news on state revenue, reserves, but not PERS

Saul Hubbard has a summary in the RG here, and the economists’s report is here. The bad news is expenditures, particularly PERS. The state seems hell-bent on getting from the current 70% to 100% fully-funded within 20 years, no matter how much damage that does to the economy. Why not use the $70B…

UO public records backlog grows – but UO lawyer Kevin Reed gets my free speech emails for free and on time

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…

University caves as law faculty threaten Dean with no confidence vote

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…