Some good news from the UO Alumni Association – no “Go Ducks!” on the plate, and although their pitch does include the usual sports hype, the money goes for academic scholarships:
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Not sure how this will interact with the administration’s plan for free speech zones: I’m hoping that last link takes our students to Yvon Chouinard’s classic work on how to reach new heights despite a hostile environment, but probably not.
I could click the link, but I’d really rather not know what this is about:
Not without a formal judgement by her peers following established procedures. In fact the administration can’t even punish her without that. Academic freedom is still pretty strong at UO. See the “final investigative report” from UO’s employment law specialists Edwin A. Harnden & Shayda Z. Le of Barran Liebman, LLP, and the letter from…
UO is now requiring members of search committees to take “implicit bias training”. The administration has hired diversity consultants to train the deans and others on it. I took a version offered at a recent BOT meeting, complete with doing the Implicit Association Test, and thought it was pretty interesting.…
That’s the tag-line from the editor of the Hood River News, attacking Duck AD Rob Mullens for pissing away UO’s tuition money on assistant coaches of this and that. When you’ve lost the hearts and minds of the strategic hamlets, you’ve lost the war. That said, his attack on cousin Jim…
In November Vikram Amar, Dean of the University of Illinois law school reviewed the legal issues with UO law dean Michael Mofffitt’s decision to suspend Professor Shurtz from teaching on the well-read law blog Above the Law: “On Academic Freedom, Administrative Fairness, And Blackface“. On November 14th UO law professor Ofer…