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.…
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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.
(I’m talking about the guy on the left.) I’m not sure who should get the credit for inviting 1995 UO alumnus, Harvard Law graduate, and Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith to give the 2012 UO commencement address, titled “You might be screwed”. But it seems they were prescient. As usual bojack gets…
Following Eugene Bicyclist @Eugenebicyclist EPD reports wok on wheels stolen. It’s a bike food cart. Call cops if you spot it!pic.twitter.com/D7UROAyx Reply Retweeted Favorite
Diane Dietz, mostly questions about indep board. 10/1/2012.
Dear CAS Faculty and Staff, On Wednesday, October 3rd, the College will host the first CAS Dean’s Reception of the new academic year. The theme of this reception is welcoming all new CAS faculty and staff, and celebrating those who are newly promoted and/or tenured. I know that the start of…
The legislative hearings did not go well. But the Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence PAC has a new donation from Lariviere fan Don Tykeson, almost $500,000 in cash on hand, and hasn’t spent s dollar to buy anything or anyone of note yet. 9/23/2012.
Went down to buy a laptop. Dozens of happy parents and students and parents milling around, stocking up on tech stuff. Staff handling it all very professionally, and chatting up the parents too. Very nice.
today. He hasn’t got out of Johnson Hall much yet, so it will be interesting to hear what comes from this. 9/19/2012. 9/20/2012 update: Turns out he did not show and was not on the agenda. Jamie Moffitt stood in for Johnson Hall. Step up your game, secret sources.
Some reference documents on the UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) and UO athletics, updated periodically. Random marijuana testing policy: Berdahl, Mullens try to sneak random drug testing of “student-athletes”through during summer, Senate and IAC leaders oppose, General Counsel Randy Geller calls out Senate and IAC head and members: … Your allegations…
That would be chancellor H. Holden Thorp of UNC. The Chronicle reports he was worn down by the usual athletics scandals and one involving fundraising. I wonder if universities ever count this sort of administrative cost of dealing with big-time college sports as part of the athletic department’s overhead? 9/18/2012.
It’s not for sports facilities. Oregonian story here. 9/17/2012.
Craig Pintens and UO’s other well paid hypesters are starting to sound a little shrill. Bob Welch of the RG started it off last week with this nicely written column: The excess. “In a word, that’s how I’d sum it up,” says Darrel Linker, 68, of Springfield, who says the UO is…
Ian Campbell has the story in the ODE. 9/11/2012.