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…
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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.
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…
“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.