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Whoops, sorry, it’s AD Rob Mullens that’s doing the search, and it’s just for a new women’s soccer coach. It’s nice to see that performance and transparency matters somewhere at UO though. Mullens for Provost! He has even appointed a professor, Jennifer Reynolds from law, to the search committee. 11/4/2012.
11/4/2012: Obviously there’s lots of competition between universities for students. Some of it is based on the consumption value of the “college experience” and some on the employment value of the degrees we issue them. There are some fairly attractive alternatives to the “college experience” – travel the world, be…
11/3/2012. Good story about UNC Chancellor (Chapel Hill campus president) Holden Thorp and the difficulties of managing a large research university/sports enterprise. UNC spends about 8 times more on research than sports. While at UO? More on this later.
11/1/2012: The US still has a comparative advantage in higher education. But if we keep going down this road it’s just going to be in football. From Insidehighered.com: Education officials from Taiwan traveled to California last week to recruit students, The Los Angeles Times reported. About 1,000 people — many…
Spellman college has just done it. Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has the story. 11/1/2012.
The American Council on Education is offering classes on how to be a Provost – only $3,850. 10/29/2012.
10/25/2012: From USAToday. The FBS average is 70%, UO is at 64%. This is the latest available NCAA data, for 2002-2005 students, and is a mild overestimate of what you get relative to the standard federal method, which gives the 80% 6-year graduation rate you see reported for regular UO…
In the RG, here. 10/25/2012.
10/22/2012: From the annual report to OUS. Quick glance? Over the 5 years since Bean’s appointment as interim provost spending on research is up $12 million or 18%, while spending on institutional support (central administration) is up $17.5 million or 40%.
Lovely day to do your PEBB enrollment. The online system is pretty painless. Think about signing up for a health savings account, because last year’s changes increased co-pays and deductibles and you want to pay those with non-taxed income. The new twist to the Health Engagement Model: they give you…
10/15/2012: Word down at the faculty club steam room is that the pressure on Interim Provost Bean to do something about his VPR, Kimberly Espy, is coming to a head. Expect nothing from Bean, who ignored faculty complaints about Frances Dyke, Charles Martinez, Russ Tomlin, and Don Harris for years.…
The UO Financial Transparency Tool was set up by the first iteration of what would become the UO Senate Transparency Committee, during Nathan Tublitz’s presidency. It was intentionally crippled by Frances Dyke and UO General Counsel Emerita Melinda Grier, because of what they called “FERPA restrictions.” To try it, log…
When I came to UO in 1995, there was a special list of faculty who were brave enough to publicly support LGBT student issues. Now we’ve got this.