It’s not just Nobel Prize winning economists and the UK Research Councils who think the administration’s research metrics plan is a mistake. Ken Calhoon, head of UO’s Dept of Comparative Literature, provides a less mathematical but no less thorough dissection: February 27th, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Mozart wrote forty-one symphonies,…
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2/28/2018: Yesterday, after a last-minute meeting between the administration and faculty opponents, the UO administration submitted its request to the city for a Conditional Use Permit that would allow it to put lighted astro-turf playing fields [sorry, I meant “outdoor classrooms”] and some buildings between the railroad tracks and the Willamette. Franklin Lewis has the story in the Emerald The city’s very transparent planning website has the proposal details at http://pdd.eugene-or.gov/LandUse/ApplicationDetails?file=WG-18-0002
The city planning office notes:
… Once the application is received, the City will have 30 days to determine whether it is complete. If it is not complete, the applicant can either submit the missing information/materials within 180 days, or tell the City to deem it complete based on what they already provided. Once the application is deemed complete, we will prepare public notice and the public involvement period will begin.
Conditional Use Permits follow a type III review process and will include a public hearing. You can see the basic event flow for this type of review here. Also, this CUP review will be based on meeting the approval criteria specifically for the Riverfront Park Special Area Zone (found at Eugene Code 9.3725). The most effective testimony makes a clear case as to how a project does or does not meet the applicable criteria for approval.
You can get updates by emailing GIOELLO Nick R <[email protected]> and asking to be added to be added to the list of interested parties.
2/14/2018: Campus planning wins award for euphemism of the month
Dear Humanities and Social Science faculty, Please join your colleagues Scott DeLancey (Linguistics), Spike Gildea (Linguistics), Volya Kapatsinski (Linguistics), Leah Middlebrook (Comparative Literature), Lanie Millar (Romance Languages), and Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) for a discussion of metrics for measuring our departmental research quality and the quality of our graduate programs. The panel…
FROM UOPD Lost and Found information: Greetings, I wanted to take a moment to let you know about the new UOPD lost and found page: http://police.uoregon.edu/content/uo-police-lost-and-found In addition to our voicemail (541-346-3232) and e-mail [email protected] reporting, we now are utilizing an online reporting system for lost and found property. This system…
I have no idea. I’m sure the Trustees don’t either. For that matter the Deans seem pretty mystified too. Here’s a little data I was able to pull from the spreadsheets at https://brp.uoregon.edu/, showing the “total expenditure budget”. I’m sure it doesn’t tell the whole story of how Johnson Hall decided…
UNC History Professor Molly Worthen in the NYT on learning outcomes assessment: I teach at a big state university, and I often receive emails from software companies offering to help me do a basic part of my job: figuring out what my students have learned. If you thought this task…
Apparently federal prosecutors and the IRS are investigating accusations that $3M-a-year coach Dana Altman failed to pay his players. Duck AD Rob Mullens thought it best to suspend him until the matter has been cleared up and the athletic department has paid the athletes any back-wages due. In contrast, no…
2/23/2018:
Senate President Sinclair broke the first rule of Vegas when he mentioned the Ice Bar escapade at a recent Senate meeting – on video. Now the press is on the trail:
Thanks Chris, next year was my turn, and you’ve gone and ruined it. How is the Senate going to find a new president-elect with this kind of scandal out there?
Fortunately our Public Records Office are experts at delaying and frustrating public records requests. I wonder what their excuse is for denying this one? Some of the long history of Duck junkets and public records is below:
3/31/2015: Hubin’s PR office finally gives Tublitz the BCS championship junket lists
Sent out yesterday: Message on behalf of Jayanth Banavar and Karen Ford ~ Colleagues, Thank you for taking the time to talk with us Tuesday afternoon about our goals for the Clark Honors College and for the experience we want the students to have who call it their academic home.…
An excerpt from http://newsletter.uauoregon.org/budget-cuts-reorganization-and-frustration-in-coe/ The College of Education (COE) has recently been presented with relatively significant budget cut targets by the Provost’s office. The COE faculty are eager to find ways to maintain the excellence of our programs while also achieving the prescribed fiscal goals. Unfortunately, we are not being…
Also LCB Dean Sarah Nutter will be there on Wed night. What a great idea: To: CAS Faculty From: Andrew Marcus Re: CAS nights at the Faculty Club: Thursday, February 22 & Thursday, March 1 The CAS Deans will be joining the Faculty Club on two upcoming nights…
2/20/2018: Austin Meek has the latest on the Lananna and Tracktown in the RG here. No word yet on whether the feds are also interviewing the UO Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold, who also played a key role in the IAAF bidding, as reported by Diane Dietz in the RegisterGuard back in 2014: The…
That’s the rumor. Apparently they want their own autonomous school of architecture. The Faculty Club opens Wednesday at 5PM.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=822421448073898796 ¹, ², ³ Caveats: 1: Some of these faculty are no longer at UO and many UO faculty have not yet claimed their pubs on Google (which is very easy to do). 2: This is a ridiculous way to measure “Research Excellence”, whatever that is. Of course if we added h-indexes, impact-factors,…