I just came across this link to a blog post about the scandal at Penn State, written last year by the CnC professor that I have just put under so much scrutiny. An excerpt: To this day, universities justify college football on the grounds that it builds character, but all the…
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Highlights of the Feb Senate meeting:1) Gottfredson promised to either a) make Randy Geller write an opinion explaining why he believes FERPA precludes faculty from seeing data that might allow them to identify individual students, or b) finally give the IAC the data on academic performance of student athletes that…
From Inside Higher Ed. Unfortunately the professor was teaching CS, not Econ. This appears to be history’s first recorded successful implementation of a strategy discussed in every economics class I’ve ever taken, or taught. Read it all, the students used a combination of social media and intimidation to enforce cooperation:…
I’m used to writing questions like this for a prelim exam, not seeing them in a newspaper. 2/11/13.
Main post with comments on the CNC problems is here. In the NYT today: At the University of Oregon, Michael Moffitt, the law school’s dean, has started clinics on nonprofit groups, environmental policy and probate mediation. He has also set up law courses for students in other parts of the…
I sort of like UO’s official “Around the O” blog. Lots of endearing pictures of our UO administrators, and the occasional informative post about campus events. But I hear complaints about the weekly spam they send to everyone, offering coffee cups and iPads for answering trivia questions. So a couple…
Lots o’ data: http://ous.edu/factreport/factbook/2012 2/7/2012.
Guess who was in on Nike tax bullying We’ll give you a hint: His annual PERS check is $252,327. And his partner Sharon Rudnick is negotiating for the administration with the union for $400 an hour. And UO won’t give up the invoices showing her total payments. See below for the bargaining…
2/7/2013. That’s at Gustavus Adolphus University. The faculty and students are angry over lack of transparency and false promises of shared governance. Here at UO it’s been a month since I paid Dave Hubin $108 to see a printout of President Gottfredson’s official calendar – something many presidents just post on…
In the Oregonian, here. Nesbitt is Kitzhaber’s advisor on education. 2/6/2013.
2/4/2013 PM Update: The NYTimes calls out the UNC athletic department for pushing its “student athletes” into sham classes. At UO?2/4/2013 AM Update: They’ve now named a special prosecutor. 1/31/2013: The costs for those who help cover it up have increased. The NYT has the latest.
Some great ODE photos here, by Nate Barrett, Michael Arellano, and Mason Trinca. Also – did anyone know UO has a hockey team? And has anyone been paying attention to how badly Paul Westhead is doing as Women’s BB coach? Announced attendance for Friday’s loss to Stanford was 1,812. But like…
That’s the latest from the sham course scandal at UNC. The NCAA Infractions Committee decided it was an academic scandal, not an athletics one, and washed their hands of it. So did an investigation opened at request of the UNC president, and overseen by the Baker Tilly accounting firm. But…
Early days on this, but it certainly seems to threaten the current business model for big-time college sports, where all the profits go to the coach and athletic director – and where university administrators can charge off hundreds of thousands of dollars in bowl game junket expenses, while it’s an…