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.…
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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…
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20191215/housing-owner-withdraws-2021-beds-over-oregon-rent-control-emails-show
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 UOregonVPUL@wittkieffer.com, 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…
Reporter Henry Houston, here:
12/11/2019: Here: Sounds like UO will be starring in #2. 12/10/2019: Last year the UO Senate gave Mr. Jacoby its Trust, Transparency, and Shared Governance Award for his work as a Daily Emerald reporter, uncovering various Duck athletic scandals despite the cover-up efforts of the UO administration. He’s since gone…
Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. Livestream here. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron Discusses possibility of move senate and committee elections and appointments to earlier in the year, so we’re not filling seats in the summer. Great idea.…
Disclaimer: My summary of what people said or should have said. Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. The Monday committee meetings are here. The wrap up (Note: I skipped out before the votes on some of these, but I assume the board rubber-stamped whatever Lillis and Wilhelms put in…
Jock Mills has been OSU’s lobbyist for ~20 years. I’ve never met him, but he sends his legislative updates to anyone with an email address – even a @uoregon.edu one – and they are far more informative than anything I’ve ever got from UO’s lobbyists. He is retiring from lobbying…
What would happen if a UO Dean or program Director was to publicly protest a UO policy? It turns out that Nike employees may have more job security than UO’s when it comes to free speech. From Willamette Week, here: … While the company didn’t interrupt the protest, its loyalists…