Of course I’m not talking about UO. This is President Wim Weiwel at PSU. Oregonian story here. Link to their pretty transparent finance and administration page, here. Compare it with UO’s VPFA’s pretty but uninformative website, here. 4/8/2012.
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4/7/2012: Word down here at the faculty club is that Frances Dyke and Jim Bean have left UO with $15 to $30 million in unfunded obligations. Jamie Moffitt thinks she can patch it up though. Or at least that’s what I think I’m hearing, the music’s pretty loud.
4/7/2012: I’m no law professor, or $600 an hour union busting lawyer $600 an hour defender of faculty members’ right to negotiate individually with the administration, but it seems obvious that a key point in the formation of a UO faculty union is the definition of the term faculty. On…
4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight: “It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.” DPS still has…
From the RG. Prison time for cheating the yuppies with fake organic corn?
is not getting a lot of respect from the Oregonian’s Steve Duin.
4/3/2012: From Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Teachers at Reynolds Arthur Academy in Troutdale spurred the biggest gains in individual students’ reading and math scores of any elementary charter school in the nation the past two years. For that, a national charter group soon will hand each of them and…
At PSU. A reader sends this, by Jennifer Schuberth, an assistant professor of religion at Portland State University: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/04/psu_stakeholders_need_transpar.htmlOn the question of whether a faculty union will promote more transparency and a “better” allocation of resources by the administration: “Like many students and faculty, I have been frustrated by the…
3/31/2012: A reader asks: What should an appropriate system of retention at UO look like? What is the current policy? Should the UO adopt a preemptive retention offer policy for certain categories of faculty? Does it have one now? Obviously more productive faculty with better outside options should get paid…
3/31/2012: Joe Nocera of the NYT has been posting a series of pieces on the NCAA cartel. The latest blows a hole in one of the favorite arguments of the AD and its Johnson Hall enablers – that college athletics should be praised for bringing African-Americans to colleges like UO:…
3/29/2012: I’m no economist, so I don’t like to make forecasts, but Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier are and they’ve got an interesting piece out: What Would the End of Football Look Like? … This slow death march could easily take 10 to 15 years. Imagine the timeline. A couple…
3/25/2012: This Insidehighered.com piece starts with the recent firing of Pres Michael Hogan from UI and then moves to a good discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of closed presidential searches such as that underway at UO: … “What all universities are trying to do is find a successor who…
from the University of Illinois, because of his “dictatorial managerial style”. Glad to see faculty are regaining their traditional governance power somewhere. Thanks to Margaret Soltan for the link. 3/22/2012.
3/22/2012: From Insidehighered: (link now fixed, thanks anon) A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a former graduate student’s lawsuit alleging that the University of Oregon retaliated against her for complaining about gender discrimination in her doctoral program. Experts said the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Everywhere else it’s a slush-fest. Bring extra socks. 3/21/2012