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3/19/2012: Interim President Bob Berdahl thinks the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee is asking too many hard questions about athletics, and he is going to rewrite the committee’s charge to make it easier for the athletic department to have their way with UO. From what I can tell this is…
Some of these union comment threads are nasty. On the other hand there’s plenty of good information and interesting opinions too, even if some people just want to vent. In any case I am hardly one to talk, and I am not a censor and I will continue to post…
Updated 3/18/2012: The union organizers tell me they are reluctant to release this information for fear the administration will use it against them, but they tell me they are aware of people’s concern’s and are thinking about how to address them. One informed TTF writes in the comments: … let…
been at the opera. All caught up now.
3/16/2012: A Notre Dame philosophy professor muses on the cynical misuse of the term. In the NYT.
3/12/2012: Word is that the card check is done, and the cards will be submitted to the ERB tomorrow.
3/12/2012: Complaint against DPS to be filed over cell phone confiscation. Becky Metrick has the story in the ODE, and some great quotes – one arguing confiscation was probably OK, then this: In Schlossberg’s case, U.S. District Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin determined that the Fourth Amendment protects privacy if that…
3/11/2012: Andy Stahl is running against Pete Sorensen for South Eugene Lane County commissioner. It’s district 3 – yes, even if you live in Eugene you vote for a county commissioner. The election is May15th, ballots are mailed out in about 6 weeks. It’s a nonpartisan position, so no primary.…
and their higher education reporter Bill Graves. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Graves to write something on George Pernsteiner’s perks or top 5 PERS beneficiary Dave Frohnmayer. His hatchet is for people like Lariviere and Berdahl who dare to disturb Oregon’s insider politics. I am not defending PERS tier…
Roughly two-thirds of presidents over all said they believed the past year’s scandals had “hurt the reputation of all higher education, not just the institutions involved,” and an overwhelming majority (86.9 percent) said they did not believe that the presidents of institutions with big-time sports programs were “in control” of…
NCAA rules say: In order to complete the certification process before the moratorium, the institution finished a self-study led by an institution’s president or chancellor. In addition, institutions completed a review of these primary components: governance and commitment to rules compliance; academic integrity; gender/diversity issues and student-athlete well-being. Each member…
3/1/2012: Pete Thamel has the NYT story. The university president and provost have stepped down. The coaches and AD’s who perpetrated the scandals have moved on, mostly to better jobs. The NCAA, FAR, IAC etc. never noticed anything wrong, such as players recruited despite not meeting admissions requirements, etc. It…
3/1/2012: A university with 90,000 mostly online students, part of the Maryland system, where the president has disappeared, and the faculty – none have tenure – are powerless to even ask why. Interesting Chronicle of Higher Ed story.