I’m posting this for my own notes, since faculty union bargaining starts in less than 12 months. Bill Gary is the Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick attorney who, along with Sharon Rudnick, represented the State’s side in the Moro case in the Oregon Supreme Court, over Kitzhaber’s attempt to roll…
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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…
2/7/2017 update: From: “Oregon Track & Field” Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:45:58 -0800 Subject: Waiver Update To: Oregon Ducks Dear Oregon Track & Field Officials, Thank you for your emails and valuable feedback today regarding the waiver that was part of the online officials database. Because of your input,…
Just kidding, that’s China. The NYT reports here: Here at UO the resistance has beaten this proposal back – for now – as explained on the Senate website here: We’ll see if we can do the same with our General Counsel’s proposed restrictions on the time, place, and manner of free-speech.
From the tax-exempt non-profit’s ample reserves. The official story here, background here.
The technical term is “lose-lose”. Saul Hubbard has an excellent story on the results of Oregon State Senator Mark Haas’s experiment – free community college tuition regardless of how rich you are – in the RG here: -More grant recipients than the state expected come from well-off and middle class families. That reduces the amount…
Links to some recent Emerald stories and commentary: UO gifted $12 million more than expected for scholarships in 2016 Administrator selected to support undocumented and international students The tokenization of Ta-Nehisi Coates
The same firm they sued over allegedly defective construction of the Global Scholars dorm. Tran Nguyen has more here.
Yesterday UO’s AVP for Student Success Doneka Scott and Director of Academic Advising Kimberly Johnson talked to the Senate about UO’s efforts to use predictive analytics to help students graduate on time. Today the NYT has a report on similar national efforts – which include using data on social interactions –…