Oct. 24, 3-4pm EMU, Crater Lake Rm GET OUT THE VOTE RALLY Join Congressman Peter DeFazio, Representative Phil Barnhart, and Representative Val Hoyle for a rally focused on issues impacting students and the higher education community. Join us after the rally to take direct action by calling students to GET OUT THE…
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And keep us in the AAU. Rumor down at the faculty club is that this gift came just in the nick of time for the annual AAU meeting. (Update: Noah McGraw has more in the Emerald here.) President Schill in the Oregonian: Michael H. Schill: This week I had the pleasure…
That would be President Obama, speaking to a delegation from Girl Scout Troop 401: President: “It needs an adjustment.” Scouts: “It’s a prototype. Have you ever had a brainstorming session yourself?” President: “Group Hug!” Say what you will about our President, at least he doesn’t waste time whining about the parking problem and…
You can’t make this shit up:
The Senate’s new blog has a post here on the proposed IAAC, complete with a helpful set of links from Andy Karduna. Anyone can read the blog, but you need a UO email address to log in and post comments. Please try it out!
This question came up in the Senate today, when someone criticized me for saying “the NCAA cartel” in my remarks introducing President Schill at the previous Senate meeting. I was floored by the idea that it’s controversial to call the NCAA a cartel. Of course the NCAA is a cartel. The NCAA has been a stock example…
“FIRE is grateful to the Templeton Foundation for its generous investment in the fight to defeat censorship and preserve academic freedom on campus,” said FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff. “The grant will give FIRE tremendous resources to engage a wider audience and better understand the current attitudes and arguments…
Colleagues and Students, I have the immense pleasure of announcing that our dear friends Penny and Phil Knight have made an extraordinarily generous $500 million gift—the largest ever to a public flagship university—that will launch an initiative to rethink and reshape research at the University of Oregon. The Phil and…
For just $5M more we could have hired a Harbaugh. Cousin Jim is currently 6-0, and #5 in the national rankings. But instead our Board of Trustees bought local:
The empirical support for the link between big-time college football, drinking, and rape is documented by Lindo, Siminski, and Swensen (2016), College Party Culture and Sexual Assault: This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an…
Some useful information for students, and everyone, in the NYT here: Lessons in the Delicate Art of Confronting Offensive Speech … A body of psychological research shows that even mild pushback against offensive remarks can have an instant effect — as difficult as that can be, especially with a boss, a…
That would be the Oregon State University Board: Public Meetings Notice October 13, 2016 The Oregon State University Board of Trustees will hold a retreat on Wednesday, Oct. 19, to discuss the university’s student success goals, current cost structure, and revenue generating opportunities. The retreat is open to the public…
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story, here: In an apparent first, federal officials have found a college in violation of Title IX, the gender-equity law, for infringing on the rights of students accused of sexual violence. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had opened an investigation…
It takes our well paid army of PR flacks more than a week to get UO’s payroll numbers? Saul Hubbard’s story on PERS costs is here: … The Register-Guard requested budget figures from the cities of Eugene and Springfield, Lane County government, the Eugene 4J, Bethel and Springfield school districts, the Eugene…
Around the O has the report: … A recent estate pledge from Jim and his wife Mary — an estimated $5 million — is a step in the right direction. “This was a way to help out in return for what the school gave me,” said Rothwell, who worked 26 years…