Rich Read in the Oregonian: UO whistleblowers: giving student’s confidential therapy records to campus lawyers felt wrong EUGENE — The executive assistant to the director of the University of Oregon‘s Counseling Center disobeyed instructions last December and showed a therapist a confidential email from their boss. The email’s directions horrified both Karen…
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John Orbell is a UO Professor Emeritus of Political Science. The RG has his Op-Ed on UO’s “What the if?” branding campaign, here: How to build a university’s reputation for greatness? The answer is straightforward: Actually be great, and the word will get around. Being great involves a lot more than…
but votes to let her spend more money on consultants. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG here.
Senate Meeting Agenda – June 3, 2015, 2014-2015, Agendas 115 Lawrence, 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 April 15, 2015 2.2 May 13, 2015 2.3 May 20, 2015 3:05 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Report from the Academic Council on Academic Integrity:…
Noah McGraw has an excellent report on the work of Alfredo Burlando, in the Emerald here.
Diane Dietz uses the case of UO’s Lambda Chi to ask these and other questions, here.
The RG has the story here, from the AP’s Jonathan Cooper: SALEM — The presidents of Oregon universities are pledging to limit tuition increases if the Legislature agrees to increase higher education funding over the next two years. University administrators have spent most of the year pushing aggressively for a…
Wednesday June 3: Committee meetings Thursday June 4: Full Board Friday June 5th: Executive session on union bargaining, board members meet with faculty and staff I’m doing some spotty live-blogging below. I’ve put the headings and some items of potential interest in bold in the agendas below, check the Agenda links for the…
Hello Professor Harbaugh, I am so sorry for the confusion however, I just sent in my course evaluation thinking you were another one of my professors! You both have the name William. Please disregard what I wrote although you may be a great singer and guitar player that was meant…
UO has two VPAA’s, a hangover from Mike Gottfredson and Jim Bean’s byzantine and top heavy org chart: Current VPAA #2 Barbara Altmann is leaving for Bucknell, here are the finalists to replace her: Colleagues: We present, for your consideration, an outstanding pool of finalists for Senior Vice Provost for…
Nik Streng has the story in the Emerald, here. Apparently the athletic department will not let current cheerleaders and the coaches talk to UO’s student press, but Streng has obtained some interesting quotes from others.
Brenda Tracy is the survivor of a sexual assault by two Oregon State football players and two others, 16 years ago. She went public after newspapers broke the story of the alleged UO basketball player gang rape of Jane Doe. John Canzano published Ms Tracy’s horrible and courageous story in the Oregonian,…
25 years ago UW-Madison gave me a full-ride PhD fellowship, funded by an endowment from the professor who figured out how to put vitamin-D in milk, and then gave the patent to the state. Now the Republican Governor and state legislature are trying to destroy the place: They’ve left in the perks for the coaches, of course.…
UO journalism professor Peter Laufer has an Op-Ed opposing anonymous comments in the RG, here: Anonymous online commenting irresponsible What is the rationale — other than a lust for website clicks — when otherwise responsible newspaper publishers allow anonymous commentary to pollute news stories? Professor Laufer is very good on the costs…