Inside Higher Ed raises the question and provides some sources, here. My comparative advantage isn’t in reading, so any comments on the research cited below, or links to other research, would be appreciated. (I’ve stripped out most the superfluous verbiage and links to wordy sounding opinion pieces in this excerpt from article without…
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Assuming no technical difficulties, the election will start Monday 4/25 with an email to the Senate constituents. Voting will be done as usual via Duckweb. The draft ballot is here. The Senate Executive Coordinator has asked all candidates for Senate and elected committees to submit statements. Click the hyperlinks in the ballot. Here’s the first: If…
Matthew Davis and Andrea Vedder in the Journal of Education Finance, here. This work came out of the Economics Department’s Community and Non-Profit Economics Honors sequence, and it was supervised by Econ Professor and former UO CAS Dean Joe Stone. As is usual when you get into the data, the story…
Summary: For those of you who skipped the meeting for early cocktails down at the Faculty Club’s temporary location (and Chuck Triplett has your names) here are the highlights: Senate Pres Randy Sullivan ran another effective meeting. All got their chance to speak, business got done, and new ideas came to light.…
Mike Gottfredson’s pick for Faculty Athletics Representative Tim Gleason (Journalism) and current Senate IAC chair Andy Karduna (Human Phys) are going to present the Senate with a proposal to replace the Senate’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee with a “Presidential IAAC” that the administration can control. See below for details. Given the long history at UO and…
Harrang, Long Gary and Rudnick – once one of the state’s most politically connected law firms, has lost a string of recent court cases ranging from the PERS case to the Bowl of Dicks. In the midst of a public records lawsuit from the Register Guard they even managed to lose the…
Their final deadline is May 15th. The IRS 990 form is one of the few sources of information the secretive foundation will now reveal, other than a bare-bones state required independent audit. The Foundation used to also publish an annual report with data on how much money went to athletics, etc.…
Matthew Kish has the interesting story in the Portland Business Journal here.
I don’t know who is responsible, but UO’s IR department continues to post interesting data. Thank you! Their website at http://ir.uoregon.edu/ currently features some numbers relevant to President Schill’s realignment efforts, which the Senate will take up during its April 27th Town Hall meeting, 3PM in Straub. Check out their page, the extracts…
UO’s Public Records Office has argued that the Federal Educational Records Protection Act (FERPA) requires them to redact the names of students from public records they release – even when the names are already public, such as lists of committee members. The Student Press Law Center has fought this sort of practice for years, and has a good guide to the law here.
UO also claims that FERPA prevents them from releasing the names of students and details of the complaint, when complaints by students are used against faculty and staff. Here is an example of the redacted report provided to a professor by AAEO Director Penny Daugherty, about a complaint filed against them (which was determined to be unfounded). The green redactions indicate parts UO redacted under its interpretation of FERPA:
Last year UO’s SEIU staff union filed an unfair labor practice complaint against UO over this use of FERPA in staff discipline cases. SEIU took the cases to arbitration, and UO refused to show the union all the documents related to the student complaints. Last month Oregon Administrative Law Judge Martin Kehoe ruled against UO. The full ruling (which has to go through another step before becoming final) is here. The gist is after the break: UO’s definition of “an educational record” is too broad.
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USA Today has the latest data here: Total revenue for the 50 public schools in the Power Five conferences rose by $304 million in 2015, but spending rose by $332 million from the year before, according to a USA TODAY Sports analysis of financial information that schools annually report to…
Inside Higher Ed has the story here. Except for that one time in Sinaloa I’ve never been arrested, and I’ve got nothing but respect for the way the Federales and most cops handle a very tough job. But this video makes it pretty clear that there’s only one thing you should…
Diane Dietz has a story on the report that longtime UO VP for Student Life Robin Holmes commissioned from Mark Koepsell (Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors and Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values) and Jeremiah Schinn (Interim Associate VPSL at Boise State), along with responses from Holmes, here. Unlike Holmes’s Op-Ed on the basketball rape allegations, which was ghost-written…
Longtime readers may remember that my public records obsession started back in 2006, after former UO General Counsel Melinda Grier and AAEO Penny Daugherty (still) tried to hide UO’s affirmative action plans, and the fact that Daugherty had failed to do them for several years. Grier stonewalled my PR requests for months, and then…
And they may get it. In the Daily Californian, here: The Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate held a special meeting Tuesday on the campus’s financial deficit and the faculty’s role in progress with academic restructuring. … The administration came under fire in February for considering the dissolution of the…