UO is charging Daily Emerald student reporters $113 for public records that they then won’t produce. But when it comes to PR bullshit, there’s no budget constraint. From http://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/522019/director-of-communications-office-of-the-provost: Job no: 522019 Work type: Officer of Administration Location: Eugene, OR Categories: Communications/Public Relations/Marketing, Executive/Management/Director, Journalism/Communication, Planning/Project Management, Public Policy and Planning Department: University Communications Appointment Type…
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At this point the whole metrics fiasco is so toxic that (almost) everyone involved wants to just drop it. Yet it is a well-known fact that Johnson Hall never makes a mistake. What a dilemma! At his recent metrics town hall, after hearing the litany of objections from faculty and…
InsideHigherEd has the news from North Carolina here: The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors named Cecil Staton the next chancellor of East Carolina University in April 2017. Nine months later, the executive search firm hired to recruit Staton refunded $110,000 in professional fees from the search. University…
That would be the University of Arizona:
Jack Stripling in the Chronicle here, with a no-puff piece on the Pres of Edinboro U (Pennsylvania).
Insidehighered has an interesting story on UNLV here: … Big gifts are sometimes based on the relationships between donors and university leaders. But in this case, the link was formal. UNLV agreed to Jessup remaining president until 2022 (as well as the medical dean staying in office) as conditions of…
Liveblog: Sorry, I can’t type fast enough to get everything. Some highlights from the town hall: Banavar, Berkman, and Pratt are on stage. Shelton (EW interview with some unfortunate quotes here) has been relegated to the admin table towards towards the back. Obviously the administration is backing away as fast…
Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be meeting this week, during the usual hours (Wednesdays and Thursdays 5:00-8:00 pm). We’ll close during Exam Week and Spring Break, and then open again in Week One of the Spring Term. The Senate-sponsored “Talk to Your Dean Night” series continues this week with…
College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students’ Preferences for Consumption? Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Brian McCall, University of Michigan, Kevin Stange, University of Michigan and NBER This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges’ decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students.…
I don’t know who wrote the Provost’s letter below, but it doesn’t strike me as Banavar’s style. In any case the faculty union has now sent the architecture faculty a thoughtful response: Dear Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture Faculty,On Friday, Provost Banavar sent the faculty of the Department of…
Tonight at the $230M Knight Arena. I had better turnout today for a lecture on microeconomic theory and the Cournot equilibrium.
UO wants the Eugene planning commission to give it the right to put 4 astro-turf playing fields with lights just south of the Willamette river. They claim this is for intramural Rugby and PE and Rec classes. I don’t buy it. I don’t have the Rugby participation data, but it’s…
On all kinds of scams. Hillary Borrud and Gordon Friedman (former Emerald reporter) have the latest one in the Oregonian: When state and federal officials approved $8 million in taxpayer financing for a Southern Oregon sawmill project, they did so on the premise the investment would bring back jobs. But officials…
That would be former UO President Dave Frohnmayer, circa 2007: