I’m sure it was a fun junket for our Johnson Hall administrators, who spared no expense in providing the documentation the IRS will want when they claim it was for a “business purpose”: But it didn’t matter much to Google Trends:
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That works out to 0.3% of his $800K golden parachute. Violations included accepting a gift trip to Bohemian Grove, conflicts of interest regarding the PSU presidential mansion, and something about sneakers. Jeff Manning has the story in the Oregonian: The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has determined that Rahmat Shoureshi, former…
Dear colleagues, I am delighted to invite you to the next in the CAS Interdisciplinary Research Talks series: During last year’s discussions about a potential reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences (in the CAS Task Force), we heard from faculty members across all CAS divisions who expressed the…
There’s nothing like people singing “O’er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave” to bring out the fascism in big-time sports. The latest from the RG letters a few days ago: On Dec. 21, University of Oregon women Duck fans were treated to a great game.…
Thanks to a consistently helpful reader for the link. The fines were only $750 per violation, but it’s a start:
Just kidding, of course they don’t: The MOU between UAUO and the UO Administration is here. The TTF merit pool is 1.625% by department and the NTTF merit pool is 2.125%, so if your raise is more than that you are excellenter than the rest of your department. For TTF,…
From InsideHigher Ed here: The explosion of new master’s degree programs in recent years hasn’t corresponded with a surge in students, analysis by the research and technology services company EAB suggests. Megan Adams, managing director of research at EAB, said many colleges have overestimated the popularity of new degree programs.…
To replace Karen Ford, who in turn will replace the administrative CAS dean position that Bruce Blonigen held until he was promoted to Interim CAS Dean, after Andrew Marcus quit. [pdf-embedder url=”https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wonham-DD-for-Humanities-Announcement.pdf” title=”Wonham DD for Humanities Announcement”]
12/19/2019 from Forensics Director Trond Jacobsen: I’d like to thank him for sending this very interesting letter on the history and present of debate at UO. It also explains his work on the fund modifications, which will allow these gifts to be used to benefit our students. And follow his…
Info on former UO CAS Assoc Dean Ian McNeely’s 2009 effort to bring grade inflation (most present in non-STEM fields) under control, which failed after massive faculty opposition and Johnson Hall indifference, is here. If the argument below is correct, it would have led to a large shift of students…
Well, she switched from using “bodily fluids” to “biological samples” in her legal arguments to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after I pointed out that that the former might be a bit too Dr. Strangelove. So my post was not just parody, it was constructive parody – the best…
From Noah Smith of Bloomberg, reposted in the SF Chronicle: The end of econ blogging’s golden age If someone asked you to name the greatest economics blogger of all time, you might name Paul Krugman, or my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Tyler Cowen. But there’s a third name that deserves to…
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No wonder Brad Shelton is running a $10M deficit. It’s not like this is something important like a new Duck offensive co-ordinator. In fact, according to the glossy brochure put out by WittKieffer search consultants Suzanne Teer, Philip Tang, and Jessica Herrington at [email protected], who are charging us $150K or…
Updates: I wonder how much of this the Witt/Kieffer search consultants, Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D., Suzanne Teer and Kim Brettschneider passed on to the OSU Board and hiring committees. In 2018 the UNC system banned its schools from hiring Witt Kieffer for searches, after they failed to do due diligence…