4/29/2013: That’s my read of this AP story: … The school had previously insisted it would continue to pursue acrobatics and tumbling despite the ruling. But on Friday, it backed away from that position. “The court has ruled that acrobatics and tumbling is not in their view an approved NCAA…
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4/28/2013: Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian reports on the tradeoff: Oregon operates the second-most-expensive public preschools in the nation, at a cost of more than $8,500 per child for a half-day, Head Start-like program, according to a study released Sunday night. Partly because of the high costs, the state has to…
4/24/2013. Harry Esteve has the bloody details in the Oregonian.
4/24/2013. In the Oregonian. And where did UO’s money go? The ODE has a hint, here. $3 million a year in new costs, recurring. We pay Jamie Moffitt $290K a year, recurring, to control this sort of thing. Instead she’s lecturing the faculty about how much science start-ups cost.
The NYT has a discussion following up on the decision by Spellman to shift the money from a few “student-athletes” to general personal wellness programs. 4/23/2013.
According to the link here. Dental hygienists make 69K? Worst career choice: Newspaper reporter. I’d take this with a grain of salt. 4/23/2013.
Monday 4/22/2013 is the last day to volunteer for appointments, and to run for the Senate and elected committees. List of who has volunteered so far is here. To: Faculty, Officers of Administration, Classified StaffFrom: Christopher Prosser, senate executive coordinatorRe: UO Senate Committee Service Preference Form Now is the time to sign…
4/19/2013: From Editor Nick Ekblad, on the Commentator Blog: WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HATE! So much that we made this hate document! Now is your chance to unleash your hatred at/for/via the Oregon Commentator! FREE SUDSY T-SHIRT FOR THE BEST HATE ESSAY Well-grounded hate is quintessential because its ugly alternatives…
Report That Blamed Shrinking Faculty Workloads for Rising College Costs Is Retracted. From the Chronicle. 4/18/2013.
4/15/2013: Mark Thoma of the UO Economics department and The Economist’s View blog considers the possibility in his talk on academic blogging, given at a Kaufmann Foundation conference Friday:
4/13/2013. I made a mistake, and I want to correct the record and try to make amends. I’ve been claiming UO’s Randy Geller has been paying Sharon Rudnick $400 an hour to run the administration’s negotiations with the faculty union. This was based on documents her HLGR firm gave Marion County Judge Thomas…
From a professor in Texas, naturally. Meanwhile, an English language institute in Georgia gets in trouble over its innovative internship program. 4/15/2013.
4/14/2013. Six minutes of satire that captures it all: This South Park episode is pretty wicked too. In other news NCAA Director of Enforcement Dave Didion is bailing for a job at Auburn – the latest in a string of departures or firings. Here’s an email that Mike Glazier, the lawyer…
Nebraska got the boot at the AAU’s 4/10/11 meeting, and Jim Bean announced he’d hired their Associate VP for Research away from them on 4/13/2011. Of course Nebraska did manage to keep the AAU vote secret for a few weeks. I wonder when Espy told Bean about it. 4/12/13.