Elon Glucklich has the news in the RG, here. Just kidding about the Bach part. Springfield’s city government is actually giving the money to bail out money-losing TrackTown USA and its well paid executives.
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The NYT has the story here: Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, said these findings “clearly conform to what I see on the ground every day,” adding that “the extra year for men just disadvantages women.” The problem, said Ms. Davis-Blake, is that “giving…
No, of course I’m not talking about the nicely formatted puffery UO puts out, here. I’m talking about the informative emails from OSU: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] June 2016 Update Date: June 23, 2016 at 3:25:27 PM PDT To: “‘[email protected]'” <[email protected]> OSU Government Relations: June 2016 Update Following the 2016…
That’s the report from the state auditor, below. UO is now exempt from state audits, and its internal audit functions have been crippled since Brenda Muirhead and one (two?) of her staff left suddenly last November, after a series of disputes with VPFA Jamie Moffitt’s office. Their website doesn’t even…
It seems there’s a UO policy that limits when faculty can assign course incompletes – the work has to be incomplete, but not too incomplete. It’s the job of UO’s well-paid Faculty Athletics Representative Tim Gleason to enforce these sorts of rules for our unpaid “student-athletes”. So they pulled Jasmine Todd out of the starting blocks, This will hurt her future…
When I ran for Senate President I said I’d have to do something with this blog. I don’t buy the argument it’s a conflict of interest, any more than the UO President’s army of well paid PR flacks are conflicted, but it sure needs some fresh blood. See my post below for…
You bet I’m impressed. The project website is here, the poem is here.
Coltrane recently gave business school dean Kees de Kluyver a remarkably generous golden parachute – 1/2 a Gottfredson, more or less. Will that now be the precedent for Coltrane? Presumably he’ll get a well earned sabbatical year – but at his professor’s salary, or his provost’s salary? The difference is enough to fund a…
Caveat: The Iowa market is thin. Courtesy of David Rothschild and the Iowa Electronic Markets:
More on Professor Youm, who came to the US as a student from Korea when it was still a military dictatorship, here. He’s been a longtime advocate for free speech and government transparency. His full Op-Ed is here. (Now in the RG too here.) The ending: … It gets worse. As a media…
6/6/2016 update: Diane Dietz is here and there will be a recording posted somewhere, so I’m skipping the live-blog. Very glad to see the J-School organize this, and I thought the panel did a good job addressing the pros and cons. It was amusing to hear former UO journalism dean Tim Gleason talk…
The NYT has the news here: … But he was more than the sum of his athletic gifts. An agile mind, a buoyant personality, a brash self-confidence and an evolving set of personal convictions fostered a magnetism that the ring alone could not contain. He entertained as much with his…
Scott Coltrane started the first search to replace GC Randy Geller. That didn’t yield anyone better than Doug Park, as explained here. So Mike Schill sensibly started over, offering more responsibility and much higher pay. Job ad here. Finalist #3 was a keeper: Finalist #3 for GCVP: Kevin S. Reed, UCLA. Schedule for Aug 5…
Good speech. Diane Dietz has more here. The UO Channel interface is clunky so I’ve put the video on youtube, here: The text of Schill’s “Six Myths” speech is here: … The widening gulf between the wealth of private and public universities mimics the increasing economic polarization of our society outside…
The morning committee meetings are here. Live video here. Some live blogging below. Usual disclaimer: my opinion of what people said, should have said, meant, or should have meant. Highlights (to be updated): Strong public comments from the the Divest UO students, who describe the contempt they’ve received from the…