Phil owns us. I think this was pretty well proven when Knight took away the law school professors’ parking lot for the jocks to use while they were getting tutored. But just in case there was any doubt, a curious law student dug up this: From: Zach Spier @uoregon.edu> Date: July 16,…
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at Cal Tech. Something about the students not taking courses seriously. Right. The NCAA infractions committee – paid by the colleges – is wasting its time on this, while burying their head in the sand on serious problems. It’s intentional. 7/16/2012.
big time athletics enabled "Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events"
7/12/2012: From the NYT on the Freeh report on Penn State: “In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university – Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley – repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse,” the report said. Paterno “was an integral part of…
Not sure why this took me so long to find. The San Francisco Chronicle, 2005: UC’S PAID LEAVES CALLED ‘BETRAYAL’ – REGENTS’ EDICT IGNORED – 3 top managers were given lucrative furloughs in violation of university policy: Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl received a 13 1/2-month leave at $315,600…
7/9/2012: From the WaPo: Traditional academic jobs are scarcer than ever. Once a primary career path, only 14 percent of those with a PhD in biology and the life sciences now land a coveted academic position within five years, according to a 2009 NSF survey. That figure has been steadily declining…
From InsideHighered.com: The University of Illinois announced Tuesday that it will pay $175,000 to Lisa Troyer to give up her tenured position in the psychology department at the Urbana-Champaign campus. A brief statement said that the university “has not initiated, and will not initiate, any disciplinary process.” Troyer moved to…
That’s the conclusion from a new paper by economist Michael Anderson from Berkeley, that uses Vegas odds to control for endogeneity: According to the report, if a college improves its season wins by 5 games, it can expect alumni athletic donations to increase by $682,000 (28 percent), applications to increase…
I’ll be making a public records request for the 2012-2013 contracts for the usual Johnson Hall suspects, at the beginning of July. In past years these have yielded info on all sorts of interesting financial arrangements. Post a comment if there’s anything you are particularly interested in seeing. 6/27/2012.
A UO economist’s study shows medical marijuana doesn’t increase HS marijuana use. And people call this this the dismal science? On the other hand, football wins are bad news for UO students’ grades. I wonder what will come out of the economics department next? 6/25/2012.
for the next few weeks. 6/20/2012.
at the shoulder if a college athlete tried this. From George Schroeder in the RG. 6/18/2012.
6/18/2012: Robert Samuelson had a recent column, “‘College for all’ mindset compounds problem“, arguing that the US probably has enough college graduates, or close to it. But are the right students going to college? High math ability students from low income families have less than half the chance of attending…
6/17/2012: If I was an economist I could give a whole lecture – hell, a whole course – on Nixon’s great achievements: Replaced the random enslavement of the draft with a paid, professional military. Established the EPA Got us off the gold standard Created the Earned Income Tax Credit Signed…
6/15/2012: Harry Esteve has the story, and a request in the online comments for help from readers with more information.