7/22/2016 CORRECTION: I emailed VPSA Robin Holmes about this, relaying the suggestion for stickers in the comments. She quickly replied that the info *will* be on the cards. Good news: Bill, I checked with the Director of the EMU and the card office to confirm that we will indeed be…
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This Comedy Central show starts with some statistics on college sexual violence, including the finding in a recent NBER working paper that reported rapes of college age women increase 41% on football home-game weekends. Brenda Tracy then recounts the story of her 1998 gang-rape by Oregon State football players, explaining the pressure…
7/20/2016 update: “What If” President Schill carried through on his promise to redirect 160over90’s branding bucks to new faculty hires? He has, as “Around the O” reports here. 1/20/2015: Faculty delight as “inane and insulting” 160over90 branders chased off campus Kellie Woodhouse of InsideHigherEd has a report with many interesting quotes, here: The University of Oregon’s…
The NYT has the story here: The former Baylor president Kenneth W. Starr complained that he had never seen it. Baylor’s alumni association called for its release. The Big 12 Conference has asked for it — twice. But there is one problem. It — a written report of an investigation…
The NYT has the story here. Just kidding about the buy-outs, that deal is only for UO B-School deans.
Diane Dietz has the story in the RG: … The nearly $202 million received in the past 12 months fell short of the $215 million received in 2014-15, but exceeds the amount raised in previous years. In the year since Schill took the helm, the giving has shifted in favor…
Rich Read of the Oregonian had a long series of stories on former Interim GC Doug Park’s decision to get a copy of Jane Doe’s confidential counseling records while Doe was suing UO over the alleged basketball gang rape. Park’s decision was the basis for changes in state and federal law…
So he should be able to pay UO back for his legal defense, right? Andrew Theen has the report in the Oregonian, based on the latest Chronicle data: Michael Gottfredson, a former University of Oregon president, received more than $1.2 million in compensation during the 2014-15 school year, making him the…
Complementary money pits – every politician’s dream. From Diane Dietz in the RG: The 2021 IAAF World Championships track meet in Eugene presents an opportunity to move teams by rail to Eugene from training sites up and down the Willamette Valley. “It could prove to ourselves and to the Legislature what…
Follow the menu from police.uoregon.edu to http://police.uoregon.edu/content/campus-security-authorities then check the links at the bottom for a variety of wrong, misleading, and outdated information about reporting sexual assaults. For example, our Police Department’s Quick Reference Guide, written after Mike Gottfredson declared that faculty were mandatory reporters of sexual assault and harassment (and then tried to hide…
The Washington Post has a long report that uses a recent rape allegation against a UVA football player to address many aspects of campus sexual assaults, here.
and lobby the legislature. Is the lobbying going to focus on more state funding, or on even less state control? It’s unlikely it will be about how to rationalize the system for redistributing what little state funding there is, given the competing interests of the universities. Andrew Theen has the story in the…
I’m particularly impressed by the quotes from Provost Coltrane, who finally apologizes for how he dug CAS a budget hole while he was dean and then when he became provost and president, ignored Marcus’s attempts to fix things until the inevitable crisis occurred. And, in a first, Around the O actually…
7/13/2016 update: Reporter Max Thornberry has the report in the Daily Emerald here. A snippet: Concerns about the timeliness and effectiveness of the AAEO office [aren’t] new. A 2014 report from the ombuds office found that, “classified staff report high levels of distrust…in the fairness, competence and responsiveness of the University’s AA/EO function.”…
Diane Dietz has the good news in the RG here.