Higher education is a competitive business. And as this article reports, UO simply is not keeping up. We need to hire a search firm, get a VP quick, gut the basement of Johnson Hall, and start installing the proper equipment without further delays. Perhaps an alumnus would be a good…
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7/16/2011: SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 200 active-duty troops and veterans wearing T-shirts advertising their branch of service marched Saturday in San Diego’s gay pride parade with American flags and rainbow banners, marking what is believed to be the first time a military contingent has participated in such an event…
7/16/2010: As part of it’s efforts to prevent “street agents” from sneaking off with any of the NCAA’s money the NCAA slapped a bunch of anti-competitive rules on recruiting services last year: Steve Andress of KEZI explains: NCAA Bylaw 13.14.3 lays out the rules for contracting a recruiting service. The…
7/14/2011: Costs and benefits matter. People are more likely to remember information if they think it won’t be on Google. From Science. I forget who wrote it.
7/11/2011: Bob Wolfe and Barry Kast have the best Laffer curve argument ever. I’d use this in class – if I were an economics professor.
7/8/2011: From the NBER‘s analysis of the “Oregon Health Plan” he started – I think in his first term: In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides a unique opportunity to gauge…
6/29/2011: Sending popular Portland blogger bojack.org this takedown notice was not the brightest move.
6/29/2011: Just after Kitzhaber signs SB909, Harry Esteve reports Nancy Golden is leaving as Kitzhaber’s education advisor. It was a temporary job from the beginning, so it’s a little odd he doesn’t have an immediate replacement in mind.
6/22/2011: Yes, there is a Journal of Neural Engineering. Started in 2004. I guess Science won’t publish stuff like this because at this point it’s just applied work?
6/17/2011: Jeff Mapes reports progress with Kitzhaber’s K-16 reform bills, including SB909: SALEM — Oregon legislators broke a session-long logjam over education policy Friday by beginning to move several bills that could eventually have a big impact on students and their schools. The legislation includes Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposal to…
6/14/2011: This NY Times piece on the work of Hugo Mercier is fascinating: For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path…
6/10/2011: Who knows where this will go next, I’m dizzy. But Kitzhaber is looking better. Kim Melton of the Oregonian seems to be on top of the legislative education circus. Put her in your RSS. Meanwhile Stacia Kalinoski of KEZI reports on the Eugene 4J layoffs: “It feels like a…
6/10/2011: Kimberley Melton of the Oregonian reports the Oregon Education Association has come out against Kitzhaber’s SB909 proposal for a new board Run by Nancy Golden, to replace OUS and coordinate policy K-16. Nigel Jaquiss has a WWeek piece on the fight between Kitzhaber and the union, which is doing…
6/9/2016: Those ingrates at Huron Higher Ed consultants have almost finished their $1.789 million consulting job, leaving behind this description of the UO administrators that hired them, and “The Oregon Way”: UO Matters is running its own competition for the best definition of “The Oregon Way”. Enter yours in the…
6/7/2011: Stanley Fish – former professor, former administrator, seldom a very interesting columnist – revisits an old question in the NYT: If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for? … Academics want to have it both ways, and sometimes do. They want, that is, to work…