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Reporter hot on trail of Duck Vegas Bowl junket scandal

By uomatters on 02/23/2018

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

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“Recalcitrant” College of Ed faculty hold Town Hall on Shelton’s metrics and Dean’s response

By uomatters on 02/21/2018

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…

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CAS Deans Marcus, Sadofsky & Blonigen invite you to the Faculty Club

By uomatters on 02/20/2018

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…

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Are feds questioning UO Foundation head Paul Weinhold over IAAF “side deals”?

By uomatters on 02/20/2018

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…

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UO’s 100 most excellent faculty, from Google Scholar

By uomatters on 02/18/2018

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,…

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UO Board Trustee Rudy Chapa steps down

By uomatters on 02/16/2018

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/duck-grad-rudy-chapa-steps-down-uo-board-trustees At-large positions on the governing board are volunteer posts with nominees selected by the governor. The governor will submit her choice to the Oregon Senate, which in turn votes on whether to confirm nominees. Those interested in applying should contact University Secretary Angela Wilhelms, who can provide more detail…

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Shocking emails reveal Pres Schill wrote NYT op-ed without help from overpaid PR flacks

By uomatters on 02/15/2018

No one who has ever dealt with a journal editor or reviewers will be surprised by any of this. At least they didn’t ask Schill to cite their own work, to pump up their Academic Analytics metrics. Eugene Weekly reporter Corrine Boyer has obtained the public records on the back…

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Faculty has wasted $600K on unused metrics data that purport to measure and incentivise excellence in Johnson Hall administrators

By uomatters on 02/15/2018

Or do I have this backwards? Come to the March 16 Town-Hall meeting to find out: Dear Colleagues, I have now been here for several months and I’ve seen some tremendous activity and enthusiasm among members of the faculty. I am continually impressed with the terrific work underway from a…

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UO Foundation took $535K from the Marion Ross Fund for expenses, then sent his Trustee a nastygram and ignored him

By uomatters on 02/11/2018

In 1991 UO professor Marion Dean Ross died and gave the bulk of his life savings, $1.2M, to the UO Foundation to manage for the purpose of buying books and photos on the history of architecture, as chosen by the Faculty of the Department of Art History (Now the History…

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