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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…

2/17/2012: UO needs to boost the number of grad students to stay in the AAU. But what disciplines? Not much point if they can’t get work in their field. Insidehighered reports on the job market for social science PhDs: … Using the same data (which may be incomplete as many…

2/15/2012: The Council for Aid to Education announced the results of its authoritative Voluntary Support of Education survey today. Chronicle story here.  On average, giving to higher ed is up 8.2%. Giving to the UO Foundation is down from $121 million for the 2009-10 FY to $93 million for 2010-11…

2/13/2012: I mostly agree that college sports has become “The New Plantation” and that it often seems that rule #1 for the NCAA is that “no black person can make money off college football”. Certainly not someone like Willie Lyles! But it wasn’t always like that – once college sports…

2/13/2012: Memo from Lariviere to Dyke, Tripp. CC to Moffitt and Executive Leadership Team, here. 11/1/2011. No public notice on what is clearly a contentious issue. This is not trust-based community policing.

2/12/2012: Today’s lazy unfocused Oregonian editorial.

2/11/2012: My own HS transcript was a bimodal mix of A’s and D’s. So there’s something about the terms of this new scholarship that I really like. From Diane Dietz in the RG: Their scholarship is set up to help students — one from each high school in Eugene —…

2/11/2012: From Mitch Smith in Insidehighered.com: Arizona legislators are considering one bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards and another bill designed to protect conservative faculty members from discrimination in getting hired or tenured.