These are a bit out of control – just take a look at my cousin Jim’s: Every now and then the NCAA university presidents say they are going to try and do something about this. The NCAA then tells them that anti-trust law prevents them from conspiring to lower wages,…
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CNN has the latest: Trump says troops on US border can use ‘lethal force’.
As measured by the willingness to pay of the marginal spectator. You can buy a ticket to today’s civil war football game for $18. For comparison, Oregonians are willing to pay $140 to hear Robert Cray play the blues, $130 to see So You Think You Can Dance, and $50…
The original timeline is here. Two of the 22 members are UO Senators, elected by the Senate CAS Caucus. Karen Ford, chair of the task force, has agreed that the UO Senate should vote on any reorganization of CAS. Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar 11/20/2018 Dear Colleagues, President…
Sort of makes you wonder how Eric Roedl is still able to extract $1.7M in fees from ASUO for “free tickets”:
That would be the University of New Mexico. Daniel Libit has the story here: UNM COUGHS UP $35K TO EXIT RECORDS CASE By Daniel Libit The University of New Mexico continues to run up a tab for its anti-transparency past. As part of a recent settlement agreement, the school has agreed…
Turning Point is a well-funded right-wing agit-prop group that regularly tries to get me to repost links to their poorly written and researched stories about left-wing agit-prop professors, e.g. a recent one about the fact that no UO faculty give money to Republican candidates. (The $5K that Chuck Lillis gave…
The NYT has his Op-Ed here.
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2018/11/live_updates_dana_altman_orego_1.html His contract and incentive bonuses are here.
Two interesting processes are coming to a head soon. First is the lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd alleging UO underpaid her for years, despite the pleas of her department head to the CAS associate dean, and the conclusions of an external review committee. See my “Nevertheless she persisted” post here.…
10/16/2018: It’s now three months since CAS Dean Andrew Marcus announced his resignation, over policy differences with the President and Provost, and almost 2 months since they announced a task force to study potential CAS reorganization.
On Oct 31 the Senate’s CAS Caucus elected two senators to the CAS recombination task force: Pedro Garcia-Caro (RL) and Karen White (Anthropology).
But there’s still no news from the administration as to who will fill the remaining 19 slots. If you know anything more please post a comment.
9/24/2018: Provost Banavar appoints Bruce Blonigen to lead CAS, and Karen Ford to work on whether or not to split it up
The August 17th post about Dean Marcus’s resignation is here.
Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar
Update: The WaPo has more here. From InsideHigherEd: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would revamp expectations for colleges’ handling of campus-based sexual misconduct. The regulation — the first the federal government has issued on the matter — was crafted to clarify requirements for colleges and to add…
Bob Keefer has a detailed report in the Eugene Weekly, here.
Unpaid isn’t quite the right word though. Apparently Le Duc paid the consultants. This is nuts. Chief Resilience Officer Andre Le Duc: … The project we are doing with CAS is a pilot project designed to test the tool at a US university. Resilient Organizations has been using the benchmark…