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1/20/2013. Mullens will announce the hire today. The RG editors called for UO to follow state law: Turns out that promoting Helfrich without interviewing a qualified minority candidate — or at least making a good-faith attempt to find such a candidate — would violate Oregon law. Three years ago, the Oregon Legislature…

1/13/2013: Congratulations to the organizers of this event, reported in the RG here: The lecture, “The Path to Peace and Happiness in the Global Society,” is open to UO students, faculty and staff, as well as the public, the UO said.  Additional details on the event, including information on ticket…

From the Chronicle: The agency’s newly proposed rules took note of the [AFT’s] explanation of how, typically, an instructor works at least three hours a week for every credit hour taught. By that formula, an adjunct who teaches four three-credit classes would be considered full time under the new legislation.…

For me the Duck’s fast moving violations of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are the most exciting part of the game. But every now and then I check out FishDuck.com to try and understand what’s happening on the field. This latest analysis by Josh Schlichter clarifies what are clearly some pretty complicated…

John Locanthi has the story in WWeek. Now I understand big-time college sports – they’re all still in high school. 12/19/12.

12/16/12: Diane Dietz of the RG has the story on the Eugene bubble. Since parents look at the total cost of attendance, decreases in rental costs allow UO to increase tuition dollar for dollar – and the fancy places like Kilkenny’s Towers are typically for rich out-of-staters. This glut will…

Ben Schorr of the Commentator on the Nike deal. Dash Paulson of the ODE on the faculty union. The ODE has been mostly filled with Duck propaganda lately – good to see some substance. The Oregonian also has an excellent Harry Esteve piece on the Nike tax deal machinations. 12/14/12.

From the faculty union website: First session December 13 (9am-1pm) and December 14 (1pm-5pm). Negotiations will take place in the Knight Library Collaboration Center (Room 122).  The bargaining meetings are open to the public. Lots of people have lots of questions about how this will proceed. I don’t know how substantive…

The link is here. Short form. Deadline is 5PM Friday. 12/14/12.

to study the problems in his Johnson Hall administration. About time. Ad posting here: The ideal candidates will have a demonstrated record of past scholarly success and experience in developing and applying quantitative approaches to the analysis of complex data sets, to address problems that are computationally challenging and data…