Mital is the Director of UO’s Office of Sustainability, and ran the famous 2013 Urban Farm survey – the last publicly released data about why students come to UO. He’s also the President of the Eugene Water and Electric Board. And he’s practicing transparency there too. Christian Wihtol has the story in the…
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Everyone favors free speech they agree with. The acid test is defending speech you disagree with. UO has a strong policy defending such speech, here: The University of Oregon values and supports free and open inquiry. The commitment to free speech and freedom of inquiry described in this policy extends to all…
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…
Subject: AVP/Title IX Coordinator Candidate #3 has Withdrawn All, Our third AVP/TIXC candidate scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week has withdrawn from the search.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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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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…
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…
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…