I first started writing about the Arts and Administration Program (AAD) and Doug Blandy’s $1M credit hour scam back in 2014: 1/23/2014: VPAA Doug Blandy pulls off daring $1M student credit hour heist … Starting somewhere around 2006, when Doug Blandy took over as Director of the Arts and Administration program in…
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Mike “The Cleaner” Glazier is the lawyer that UO’s Rob Mullens and Randy Geller hired to deal with the Chip Kelly/Willie Lyles recruiting scandal. The academic side got stuck with half his legal bills, Bob Berdahl used the fact that Nathan Tublitz and the Senate IAC tried to find out what was going on and who…
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…
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…
Andrew Theen has the story in the Oregonian, here: Phil and Penny Knight, arguably Oregon’s most prominent couple, were recognized earlier this month as the leading philanthropists in the nation. The Chronicle of Philanthropy listed the Nike co-founder and his wife as the top donors in its annual ranking of the…
Diane Dietz has the report in the RG here: To save money, the University of Oregon is preparing to trim about 75 jobs from its non-tenured faculty, according to United Academics, the labor union representing the faculty. Plans call for reductions of 25 positions from the College of Arts and…
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…
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.…
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,…
The UO Alumni magazine has the story on this remarkable woman’s life here.
Unfortunately it’s the list of the top 10 *worst* universities for free speech. The Oregonian’s Andrew Theen has the report here. The FIRE list is here. I am quoted by Theen as arguing that top 10 is a bit unfair, given President Schill’s recent decision to drop the proposed restrictions…
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…
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…
Is free speech on campus dying?
If so, it’s still kicking. Friday’s engaging talk by Geoffrey Stone from Chicago Law laid out and put to rest the arguments against free speech and academic freedom one by one, then finished them off with his responses to audience questions about the increasing use of hate speech by conservatives, and safe spaces for our increasingly diverse students.
Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge for Our Times
Friday, February 17 at 4:00pm
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…