Because that’s what’s wrong with Oregon education – not enough administrators. Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian. Never heard of this guy. Anyone? 5/29/2012: He’s an outsider with a reputation for shaking things up. Let’s give him a chance. Mostly positive editorial in Oregonian.
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5/30/2012: Wishywashy, here.
5/29/2012: At the most recent UO Senate meeting President Rob Kyr announced that Pres Berdahl had asked him to appoint committees to address three issues: conflicts of interest, personal attacks, and leadership. Don’t get me started on the UO administration’s surplus of conflicts of interests and their shortage of leadership.…
5/28/2012: This suit may shed some interesting light on how Lane DA Alex Gardner deals with public records petitions, since SB242 gave him authority over UO public records. The requests in this story seem loosely related to Handy and Sorenson’s violation of the public meetings law and they look very…
to support his efforts to get a permanent contract. 5/24/2012. It mostly worked, update from Dash Paulson in the ODE: … The meeting produced an agreement to retain DeBevoise another year and for the College of Arts and Sciences to open up a “conversation” on establishing a Middle Eastern Studies…
From the RG, here. It’s a special allocation from the state legislature, to help the Oregon Track Club pay for security at the Track and Field Olympic Trials. In totally unrelated news, the Springfield school district budget committee is meeting Thursday to figure out how to deal with cuts in…
5/23/2012: From John Russell of the UO Libraries. The link to the petition to President Obama is at the bottom, you have to register to sign but it is quick. Open access advocates have created a White House petition asking the President to consider expanding the Public Access Policy of…
5/22/2012: A University of Oregon summer college prep program for underprivileged middle schoolers ally-ooped a Springfield teenager into the loving arms of Bill and Melinda Gates — who will pay for her college education from freshman year to doctoral degree. … “Particle physics,” she said. “What I really want to…
A reader asks: What can UO Matters do at this critical juncture in the search process to create a constructive environment? How can UO Matters help market the UO to potential presidents? What can be done now and in the next months and years to foster engagement between the faculty…
5/20/2012: From Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian. I’m no finance professor, but there seems to be a lot of long-run downside risk here for the state – and not much for the investment advisors, who take their fees and bonuses off the top.
5/17/2012: From Jack Bogdanski: There ought to be a law that no press releases can be written by government flacks until government is current in filling public records requests. This would put quite a crimp in the output of the Duck’s press office.
5/17/2012: For better or worse, we’ll have one soon. What should her top 5 priorities be?
5/17/2012: That’s the explanation the SacBee gives for the lucrative UO trade in CA students. Complete with Roger Thompson quote. Not a popular argument with the UO central administration, which loves spending that out-of-state tuition money on sports and on their own junkets to bowl games (link fixed) – and…
I mistakenly deleted all comments to UO Matters from 5/12 or so til now. I’m very sorry, there were some good ones too! I tried to recover them, but can’t. I really appreciate comments and the discussions that often develop. They make the blog much more interesting and I hope…