5/14/2012: Voting for UO Senate etc. closes tomorrow TODAY, log onto duckweb to vote. Oh yeah, state ballots too.
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5/14/2012: From Insidehighered.com on UT student support for president’s plan for tuition increases. The Chronicle suggest he may be fired by the board of regents. UO’s proposed increases are on this OUS docket, which presumably passed: In comparison to UO, the UT President apparently has a careful plan to use…
5/9/2012: President Rob Kyr and Interim President Bob Berdahl will speak with the legislative committee on this, 5/10/2012. Agenda and remarks here.
5/8/2012: The Eugene city council has just voted to give UO $400,000 a year. How’s that? The upscale downtown Capstone apartments will get a $800,000 annual tax exemption from the city. These are aimed at wealthy out-of-state students, for whom UO competes regionally, nationally and internationally. Parents shop around, looking…
5/8/2012: 15% of Americans now get food stamps. According to this story in the Chronicle, the proportion of people with advanced degrees getting food stamps or other federal assistance has tripled since 2006 – to about 1.5%.
5/4/2012: Back in 2007 President Frohnmayer and Charles Martinez were putting UO through their expensive and pointless “5 Year Diversity Action Plan” mess. Meanwhile a group of 22 other universities started an evidence based program to improve college success among low-income and minority students. Their results have started to come…
5/3/2012: In the Oregonian: Kitzhaber saves Oregon budget and his reputation in health care deal with Obama administration
5/3/2012: Lorraine Davis has caved on her quixotic quest to have it called “subsidized parking”. Yup, better not to open that can of athletic worms. So the Emeritus Policy is now in effect and in the UO policy library, here. Key point: you must have been a full professor for…
5/2/2012: The LA Times discusses a proposal to let Cal States schools do this. Oregon started this under Frohnmayer, and currently about half the UO President’s pay is from the UO Foundation. The problem is that the foundations are typically run by sports boosters. They either divert funds that should…
Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion Martha J. Bailey, Susan M. Dynarski NBER working paper 17633 We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys…
5/6/2012: Also see the links, quotes, and discussion on this UC-Berkeley page: “Sacred cows such as intercollegiate athletics continue to graze on the core academic programs of the institution.” – – Former President of University of Michigan James J. Duderstadt, The Future of the Public University in America. “More than…
4/27/2012 with updates: Like it or not, most UO faculty are now in a union. This union will need to negotiate a Collective Bargaining Agreement with our administrative overlords UO/OUS management and put it to a vote. The comments are open for suggested CBA clauses. No non-CBA comments on this…
4/29/2012: That would be Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindahl, firing LSU president John Lombardi yesterday. The LSU board members actually have some stones – it’s a 12-4 split, and some members are publicly accusing others of breaking the state’s public meetings law: Board member Tony Falterman said board Chairman Hank Danos…
4/28/2012: Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian continues his PERS investigations, with a story on double dipping. Lorraine Davis gets a shout-out, but no mention of her family football plan. Word is that Lorraine is furious about me exposing that deal – but not embarrassed enough to give back the money.…
comes to Oregon: Applications for the position of Global Scholars Hall Resident Scholar are being sought. … The primary responsibility of the Resident Scholar is to help shape the intellectual life of the students living in the Global Scholars Hall, in both formal and informal settings, through residence-based programs. This…