UO President Michael Schill is a former UCLA law school dean. UO General Counsel Kevin Reed is a former UCLA general counsel. Eugene Volokh is a rather well known UCLA law professor, whom Reed has asked for advice on the proposed TPM free speech restrictions. Quoting from Volokh’s UCLA webpage: Eugene…
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Slate has the latest here. Thanks to a reader for the link. The professor apparently tweeted an obscure reference to Toussaint L’Ouverture. His dean didn’t get the sarcasm, or the First Amendment, so his job is now on the line. The professor’s job that is. Should be an interesting meeting.
12/24/2016: The efforts by Duck PR flacks Dave Williford & Craig Pintens to get the Daily Emerald sports reporters to stop covering these assaults have backfired. Kenny Jacoby has the latest violence in the Daily Emerald. It looks like the UO administration kept the alleged sexual assault(s) hidden from campus for about 2 months:…
Diane Dietz has the latest in the RG: STATEMENT FROM UO LAW PROFESSOR NANCY SHURTZ REGARDING IMPROPER RELEASE OF INFORMATION CONCERNING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION ABOUT A HALLOWEEN PARTY HOSTED IN HER HOME On Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, the University of Oregon improperly released a flawed investigative report into events surrounding…
From Provost Coltrane’s letter: … the violation and its resulting impact on students in the law school and university outweighed free speech protections provided under the Constitution and our school’s academic freedom policies. The report on this stupid and offensive Halloween costume was finished 3 weeks ago, and is now…
Full professors down from 89% to 87%, Associates down from 96% to 95%, Assistants down from 95% to 94%. The union raises are due in January, but of course pay will also increase at other universities. 2014-15: 2015-16: Obviously these numbers do not include the cost of benefits, which is unusually…
Duck AD Rob Mullens has shown quite the talent for signing expensive long term contracts just before Duck coaches start to lose. But Horton peaked years ago. His players won some sort of NCAA championship in 2012, so Mullens gave him the sweetheart contract below. All downhill since. This year the Ducks aren’t even ranked…
InsideHigherEd has a review: Michael Lewis’s 2003 book, Moneyball — later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt — tells the story of how predictive analytics transformed the Oakland Athletics baseball team and, eventually, baseball itself. Data-based modeling has since transcended sport. It’s used in hiring investment bankers, for example.…
12/19/2016 update: Still no update from the UO administration on Professor Shurtz’s suspension or their investigation of her. Meanwhile FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has this: Student Cleared of Baseless Charges from Anti-Lynching Art Display ROCK HILL, S.C., Dec. 19, 2016—A Winthrop University student was found not responsible…
12/18/2016: Day 5: We’re now among the lucky 90% of Eugene residents with electricity. It’s nice. Thank you IBEW. And the suspicious red oak is roped to two others that lean away from the kitchen. Thank you Cummings Tree Service. 12/17/2016: Going into day 4, I’m thinking a bit of Islay cut with ice covered…
Diane Dietz in the RG: The University of Oregon is awaiting the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in the new year with a disconcerting level of uncertainty about his plans for federal funding of research. The UO relies on about $100 million a year in federal grants out of $700…
Oh wait, these are tree danger zones. Never mind.
From: University of Oregon Subject: UOAlert!: Weather Hazards 12-14-16 Date: December 14, 2016 at 4:22:25 PM PST To: “[email protected]” Reply-To: University of Oregon December 14, 2016 – 4:19 pm Please use caution when departing campus this evening. Some tree hazards have been reported on campus. Caution tape is being placed…
Mateo Sundberg’s Op-Ed is on the Daily Emerald website here: Over one year ago, the Black Student Task Force released a list of twelve demands for the University of Oregon administration to address campus issues surrounding diversity and tolerance. One of the demands, demand number six, was a request for the…
Sorry, long post, which includes a letter on internal threats to the principle of shared governance from Professor Emeritus of Biology Frank Stahl, and information on the 2012 threat from the administration to dissolve the UO Senate and Faculty Assembly. Five years ago on Dec 15th 2011 the UO Faculty Assembly ratified…