From a professor in Texas, naturally. Meanwhile, an English language institute in Georgia gets in trouble over its innovative internship program. 4/15/2013.
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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.
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…