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Law Dean Michael Moffitt to explain how he got $10M from general tuition fund

From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Kathy Warden <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:15 AM To: “‘[email protected]'” <[email protected]> Subject: deans-dirs: Reminder: Dean Moffitt’s 5-yr review presentation today Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that you are invited to Dean Michael Moffitt’s public presentation today at 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm…

Third AVP/TIXC candidate withdraws, feedback needed on #1 and #2

Subject: AVP/Title IX Coordinator Candidate #3 has Withdrawn All, Our third AVP/TIXC candidate scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week has withdrawn from the search. Please use the questionnaire on the president’s page (https://president.uoregon.edu/content/associate-vice-president-and-title-ix-coordinator-application-materials) to provide your feedback as soon as possible. Also, please forward this notification to others who may…

FSU Pres John Thrasher calls out Hunting Ground over Jameis Winston story

Jake New has the report in InsideHigherEd, here. Thrasher doesn’t come off as particularly credible: …The section of documentary about Florida State focuses on an assault allegedly committed by Jameis Winston, a former star player for the university’s football team. While Winston was not charged with a crime, the university and…

Sec of State releases public records audit: Agencies should delete more records

Update: Gordon Friedman reports in the SJ that Gov. Kate Brown will talk about the audit and her plans for transparency at 1:30 tomorrow in HR 3: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015I1/Committees/JLAUD/2015-11-18-13-30/Agenda Meanwhile Michael Kron’s DOJ public records task force is meeting from 1-3 in the Governor’s Conference Room: http://www.doj.state.or.us/public_records/Pages/task_force.aspx And Nick Budnick reports in the Oregonian…

Ducks to let regular UO students go upstairs at Jock Box

but just this Thursday at 1:00, for a meeting of the Senate’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee: Word is that SSA Director Steve Stolp and his boss Lorraine Davis will address questions about the effectiveness of the Services for Student Athletes operation, which segregates Duck athletes from regular UO students while making the regular…

Schill: Obviously, if I get savaged, I might have some behavior modification

The Portland Tribune’ story on UO President Mike Schill’s comments regarding the Morlok / Stokes retaliation lawsuit against UO is here. Today they’ve posted more from their Nov 11 interview with Schill, here: FWIW, I hear the University of Nike domain name is for sale. More from the interview: PathwayOregon grants Schill says he hopes…

Judge Aiken issues order in Duck / Chip Kelly bonus insurance dispute

11/16/2015: Full docket here, full opinion here. I have no idea what it means, except that UO’s lawyers at Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick are going to get many more billable hours out of us before this ends: 2/17/2015: UO sues over Chip Kelly’s bonus insurance policy The bonuses Rob Mullens and Dana Altman…

Rob Illig’s summer sports law institute now advertising on UO Matters

No surprise the google algorithm matched us. I hear Illig’s program is doing OK. In contrast Law Dean Michael Moffitt’s Alternative Dispute Resolution program must have been hit hard by the recent NYT series exposing endemic corporate abuses of arbitration. Moffitt’s previous NYT exposure – the “business school case study” – ended pretty disastrously.…

14′ marble statute of nude Marcus Mariota to highlight Duck sports complex

That’s the rumor from the Arts and Administration profs down at the faculty club tonight: More from athletics spokesperson Craig Pintens, here: $30M for athletics, $17M for academics. After they roll out the rich corinthian leather, $30M is probably lowball: Meanwhile President Schill has just $17M for efforts to improve low SES student…

Firing professor for “incivility” costs chancellor her job, university $875K

11/13/2015: The Nation has the news that the University of Illinois has settled with Steven Salaita, here. 8/11/2015: Former university trustee asks tough questions about buyout payment Among those upset by the decision is former U. of I. board Chairman Christopher Kennedy, who approved Wise’s initial employment agreement. “I wouldn’t give…

CAS Deans and President Schill joined the #blacklivesmatter march

Mike Gottfredson hid in his office and made Robin Holmes come out and talk to the sexual assault protestors. Our new leadership has a bit more common sense: Subject: cas-heads: Solidarity Protest March Today Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Dear Colleagues, There will be a student-organized march today…

Johnson Hall double-booked for protests today, as Black male athlete grad rate drops to 17%. Tom Hart, Craig Pintens monitor athletes

The NCAA reported last week that only 17% of the Black Male athletes who started at UO in 2008 had graduated 6 years later. Only 44% of all Black Male students (includes athletes) entering UO in 2008 graduated: For comparison 67% of all students entering as freshman in 2008 had…