4/11/2013: The people have spoken. More importantly, three of them have offered to help restock my depleted scotch reserves if I would drop the Disqus comment block. I was holding out for another bottle from Bean, but he took a UO junket to Oxford and brought me back nothing from…
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“UO Foundation resists compromise to include faculty on proposed independent governing boards”From Saul Hubbard in the RG. They’re using money donated to UO to pay Ginny Lang, the lobbyist who is meeting with legislators to fight against faculty participation. Meanwhile President Gottfredson won’t sign the UO constitution that Rob Kyr…
4/8/2013: From a new study, as reported in the Chronicle: His analysis found that having faculty unions led public universities to spend a larger share of their budgets on instruction, as opposed to administration. Over time, his paper says, universities with faculty unions consistently spent 2 to 3 percent less than…
4/5/2013: I’d rather not know which UO administrator drives this one:
That would be President Mitch Daniels at Purdue. Fascinating piece on his surprising first few months in Insidehighered, here. 4/4/2013.
4/4/2012: Plans here: Oh wait – this is for remodeling the locker room suite at Autzen. Never mind.
The Dalai Lama is coming to UO and will give a talk at the Matt Court basketball arena. Diane Dietz of the Register Guard reports that the tickets, which UO sold for $20 on a first-come first-served basis, with all proceeds to go to charity, are worth considerably more: But…
3/30/2013. Comments welcome. Between 2008 and 2013: F and A (indirect) from grants increased from $14.7M to $17.2M, or 17%. The VP for Research Office admin salary budget increased from $450K to $1.14M, or 153%. ORSA’s salary budget increased from $787K to $1.7M or 116%. VP for Research Office administrative…
3/25/2013: That’s the latest rumor from the faculty club sushi bar. The next hearing is Tuesday 3/26.
3/23/2013: The NCAA Academic Progress Rate is a measure of the progress to graduation of “student athletes”. Explanation here. The most recent Pac-12 median was 962. The APR for UO’s basketball team has been steadily falling and is now below the 930 rate that will be required for post-season play in…
I’m trying a new system for comments, called Disqus, you’ve probably seen it on other blogs. It works now, but the last 2 days of comments are being transferred, and may not show up for a day or so. To comment you should create a free, anonymous Disqus account. It…
From the AAUO website, 3/14/2013: The faculty bargaining team wants to let you know that they are working hard on a response to the University Administration’s raise proposal. Although the University Administration originally gave us the deadline of March 12 to respond, we have been able to work with them…
The Ellsberg Paradox is an early and important anomaly involving risky decisions. It was an inspiration for what’s now known as behavioral economics. I taught it for years before I learned that the author was the same Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the NYT in 1971. It…
3/21/2013: The faculty and students are drifting out of town. Now’s the time for JH to pull the crazy shit on us. Gottfredson’s response to the union raise proposal is due starting at 8AM in 122 Knight library. At 4:30 yesterday Bean called an emergency meeting of the ION PI’s,…