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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.

2/29/2012: I’ve nodded at this gentleman many times as he walked his 13th street beat, but I never stopped to talk to him. Sweet story about his retirement, in the ODE by Branden Andersen: “I knew that I didn’t have enough compassion to be a minister, but I knew I…

2/24/2012: Sent to me by an anonymous prof: Also see this, from UO’s AAUP website: 

2/23/2012: That’s the title of the lead post by UO physics professor Stephen Hsu, in a NYT sponsored discussion of racial preferences in college admissions, prompted by the SCOTUS decision to revisit their constitutionality.

2/23/2012: according to the Oregonian. Two weeks ago they were very optimistic. The bill would mean Oregon would have a Chief Education Officer with authority over Pernsteiner and it would give the governor authority to fire control Pernsteiner. Pernsteiner fired Lariviere, and now he seems to be stopping Kitzhaber. Legislative…

2/22/2012: That’s the line I’ve been getting from UO administrators lately: UO Matters is a primary reason that there is so little trust between the faculty and the administration. If you have any thoughts on this, pro or con, please comment.

2/20/2012: But it ain’t never gonna happen. Sam Stites has the story in the ODE.

2/20/2012: The figure and email below are from an anonymous correspondent. At UO there is a tiny correlation between a department’s average pay relative to their discipline and their research productivity relative to their discipline. You’d expect better ranking departments would be closer to AAU comparator pay. Nope, mostly it’s…

CAMPUS FORUM: OPEN DIALOGUE ON FACULTY UNIONIZATION Hosted by the University Senate (see senate.uoregon.edu/  for additional information)TUESDAY, FEB. 21, 20124 to 6 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom All members of the statutory faculty, which includes all tenure-track faculty (TTF) and non tenure-track faculty (NTTF), are strongly urged to attend this…

2/20/2011: UO news here. UO law here. Daily Emerald story here. From the Law School facebook: Memorial Tribute to Honor Professor Svitlana Kravchenko Please join us to honor the late Professor Svitlana Kravchenko of the University of Oregon School of Law on Friday, February 24. Svitlana’s husband, Professor John Bonine…