At the University of Wisconsin, that is. From Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the economist who beat out Michael Schill for the UW job – in a public search: As mentioned, we are directing our schools, colleges and units, including our Athletic Department, to make greater financial contributions back to our central…
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Here: The last part of “Missoula” is devoted to Mr. Johnson’s trial, with extensive you-are-there courtroom time. It says a lot about the rest of the book — which is as crowded and painful as it is eye-opening, though it would have benefited from more of Mr. Krakauer’s thoughts and…
That’s the RG Editorial board discussing the release of the UO Presidential Archives. On the other hand the damage to UO’s reputation and the careers of James Fox and Kira Homo, from Interim President Coltrane’s botched over-reaction, has been immense. Most of the initial embarrassment was to former UO General…
The full results of the Gallup poll are here. I didn’t see any questions about the football team or the national brand:
4/17/2015 PM update: The Library Journal has now updated its report on “the incident”, with statements from UO Library Dean Adriene Lim, here: In January Harbaugh received a letter from Doug Blandy, senior vice provost for academic affairs. The letter stated that the material was provided to him in violation…
4/16/2015 PM: I didn’t see our Faculty Athletics Representatives Jim O’Fallon or Tim Gleason or PAGIA Chair Kim Sheehan in the audience – there were a lot of empty reserved seats – but Interim President Scott Coltrane got quite the lecture tonight from Taylor Branch about civil rights, college sports…
VP for Student Life Robin Holmes got all-expense-paid junkets to the national championship games for herself and spouse, so she’s in no position to object to the efforts of the ASUO student government leadership to get Athletic Director Rob Mullens and AAD Eric Roedl to back off their threat to cut…
Kellie Woodhouse has an excellent, lengthy story in InsideHigherEd about new university presidents and big-time sports, with an Oregon mention, here: … At Syracuse, Syverud told faculty members in March, according to a Syracuse.com article, that he’s been spending half his time dealing with the sports program in the wake of…
Here’s Dana Altman last May, sort of explaining that he’d hoped to quietly transfer the players away without telling their new schools what happened at UO before the press found out about the allegations: Turns out he’s not the only coach who isn’t that particular. All three of the players now…
Lisa Peet has the story in the Library Journal, here: … Fox, previously a non–tenure track associate professor in UO’s history department and the university’s Robert D. Clark Honors College, had been the director of UO special collections and university archives since 1999. He worked with such noted collections as…
4/20/2015 update: Please see the retractions posted at https://uomatters.com/2015/04/archivists-resign-coltrane-got-sharon-rudnick-to-write-report-on-presidential-archives-release.html 4/15/2015 PM update: I’ve made a public records request to UO, in an effort to obtain some hard data and get to the bottom of all this back and forth between Mr. Gary and me: From: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]> Subject: PR request,…
The Senate legislation is for ~$3M recurring. The coach’s charitable drive is for $500K, one-time. A cynic might think this announcement is a reaction to the UO Senate’s recent legislation to require the Ducks to make payments from their bloated budget to support the academic side, or to the Change.org…
Senate Meeting Agenda – April 15, 2015 2014-2015 Agendas Lawrence, Rm. 115; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Remarks by Robert Kyr, Senate President 3:05 pm 4. New Business 4.1 Motion (Policy Adoption): Adoption of Policy on Conferral of…
I’ve worked in Wolf Point Montana, read a few books about wolves (but nothing as good as J. Frank Dobie’s The Voice of the Coyote). I’ve seen plenty of coyotes and heard a few wolves in Yellowstone, I think, and I’ve got a PhD in Economics specializing in public finance.…
This should be interesting. The doors to Gerlinger open at 3:30, Coltrane’s presentation at 4:00. And at 5:00 there will be an opportunity to schmooze with incoming UO President Michael Schill, in the Atrium in Willamette Hall. That was moved from 4 to accommodate the interest in this OA and…