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faculty governance

2/20/2011: Wisconsin is getting all the attention, but read about the faculty governance fight in Pocatello. From Insidehighered.com: Siding With President, State Governing Board Suspends Idaho State’s Faculty Senate The Idaho State Board of Education on Thursday suspended the Faculty Senate at Idaho State University, which voted no confidence last…

Charitable giving

2/18/2011: Report from the UO component of the state employee Charitable Fund Drive: The 2010 CFD received 810 pledges in the amount of $251, 083. This is an increase of 30% in pledges and 3% in total dollars pledged compared to 2009. Although the average pledge decreased in 2010, more…

Goldschmidt victim obituary

1/31/2011: The Oregonian prints the tragic story of Elizabeth Duncan, the girl who was the victim of Neil Goldschmidt, former Oregon Governor, US Secretary of Transporation, and (briefly) OUS President. She died two weeks ago after a life of drug abuse and mental illness. He is still a well connected…

10 year tenure clock

rejected by the Michigan faculty. The interesting part? For faculty members hired as assistant professors at Michigan, tenure is not a certainty. Between 1982 and 2004, 54.6 percent of those hired as assistant professors received tenure, according to Michigan’s office of budget and planning.  It is almost unheard of for…

OC interview issue

1/25/2011: The Oregon Commentator provides excellent interviews with campus notables in its latest issue. Mostly campus notables who haven’t been on campus long enough to know that they will regret it. Our new Dean of Students, Paul Shang, for example: OC: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has listed…

Why? How Long?

1/19/2011: I’m not sure who is crazier: The 12 of 127 readers that give Chip Kelly worse than a B, or the 30 of 162 who give Frances Dyke better than a D. Why is she still running the show? Because Provost Bean and President Lariviere want her to. Why…

OC Media Watch

1/18/2011: Alex Tomchak Scott provides a summary of UO and other news of interest, with commentary. Today we see an Oregonian report on the death, at age 49, of the woman former Governor Neil Goldschmidt sexually abused when he was Portland mayor and she was 14. Tomchak also reports that…

Pat Kilkenny is an investor in Courtside and Center Court

1/6/2011: Pat Kilkenny was hired as UO Athletic Director by former UO Pesident Dave Frohnmayer to push Phil Knight’s basketball arena project through, after Kilkenny made a well-timed $240,000 donation to Frohnmayer’s Fanconi Foundation. Kilkenny then got the OUS Chancellor and board to sell $237 million in state guaranteed bonds…