From McClean’s, via Insidehighered: Barry said he offers student dancers around $1,700 each semester for tuition, but in exchange, they must maintain a B average in school.
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From some nice data visualization tools on Chronicle.com: and and spending (note that this is spending by the institution, not cost to the student.) relative to our OUS defined peers: and here’s info on our student faculty ratio: and just to mix it up a little:
Congrats to @oregonstateuniv for making the Fiske Guide. We need to increase the number of #OR schools on this list. goo.gl/fMlvA — John Kitzhaber (@GovKitz) August 27, 2012
That would be Michael Strine at UVA, not Jim Bean at UO. The truth about what Jim Bean, Randy Geller, and Lorraine Davis did or did not do to help the OUS board fire Lariviere will take someone with the patience to spend a few days in the UO archives,…
What are the chances our new VPFA Jamie Moffitt is building these sorts of costs into her new auditable athletics overhead calculations? Opportunity cost of the President’s time? It’ll be progress if she just counts the $2 million Jock Box tutoring bill. 8/8/2012.
via the Oregonian: The Chronicle of Higher Education has named 103 public and private colleges as “2012 Great Colleges to Work For,” but no Oregon colleges made the cut. The weekly newspaper based its rankings on a survey of 47,000 college and university employees. They cited communication, respect and good compensation…
In the Oregonian, here. In case anyone is wondering how the Ducks affect state sentiment for a more independent UO. While I’m posting random links, anyone remember this particular bit of Duck intimidation? Even those who disagree with Sohlberg’s challenge to the sign could have been more vigorous in upholding…
8/4/2012: Jeff Manning of the Oregonian has a story on the woes of recent Oregon law school graduates: increasing debt, flat salaries, falling employment rates. One fact that surprised me: over the past 10 years the number of Oregon lawyers has increased by 10%, about the same rate as population…
That would be Governor McDonnell of Virginia (R), reacting to the UVA President turmoil – and not Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon (D). Washington Post story here. 8/1/2012.
From the most interesting legal blog. David Post raises new questions about the NCAA’s fine of Penn State: So the NCAA has now imposed sanctions on the Penn State athletic program for its many failures, including a $60 million fine and various other restrctions on their athletic program (designed, as the NCAA…
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,…
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…