This time it’s ice cream. The Emerald’s Jack Pitcher has an extensive report here: Not long after opening in 2011 as a food cart serving homemade ice cream, Red Wagon Creamery exploded onto the Eugene food scene. The cart was replaced by a downtown store in 2013, and by 2016,…
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2/10/2018: The UO administration can’t even run a music festival, and they think we should trust them to pull off the 2021 IAAF Track and Field championships? The Eugene Weekly’s Bob Keefer, who broke the story of the firing of Bach Festival Artistic Director Matthew Halls back in August over…
When I moved to Eugene in 1995 I was surprised at the size of my first EWEB bill. Perhaps I was unduly influenced by the songs of Woody Guthrie, but I assumed that with lots of hydro and rain, electricity and water wouldn’t eat into my mortgage payments much. Woody…
2/7/2018: From The Times: All seven of the UK’s research councils have signed up to a declaration that calls for the academic community to stop using journal impact factors as a proxy for the quality of scholarship. The councils, which together fund about £3 billion of research each year, are among…
InsideHigherEd’s interview with Jerry Muller about his new book. Published by the high impact-factor Princeton University Press. One excerpt: Q: Some colleges, government agencies and businesses promote tools to evaluate faculty productivity — number of papers written, number of citations, etc. What do you make of this use of metrics?…
That’s my takeaway from this message from Chairperson Harper. Also some stuff about a talk from some guy from the Getty, and paintings:
Will Campbell reports in the Emerald: … A former University of Oregon professor is suing the school because he claims that he was discriminated against because of his Asian-American heritage and his boss made him do odd, unethical chores. … Note: The Emerald’s comments are open. I’m not going to…
https://www.dailyemerald.com/2018/02/05/administrators-aim-improve-communication-students-office-hours-students-attend/
One of the problems with strong incentives, such as the $425K bonus Duck AD Rob Mullens promised to Dana Altman to top off his $2.5M salary if his unpaid student-athletes win the NCAA tournament, is that you discentivise other things you might care about. Such as not dragging UO’s name…
2017-18 HEARST ENTERPRISE REPORTING WINNERS NAMED San Francisco – The top 10 winners in enterprise reporting were announced today in the 58th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 105 undergraduate journalism programs at universities across the nation are eligible to participate. 122 entries were received in…
Uh, thanks, but actually I was looking for a bandsaw.
in a very strong and pointed op-ed in the Oregonian, here: As presidents of the Oregon State Senate and the University of Oregon, each of us has a unique perspective on how protecting undocumented children, known as Dreamers, benefits Oregon. These protections create opportunity. They create hope. They create promise…
This is the committee that the Board of Trustees established to replace the former Senate committee, when they took power for student discipline away from the faculty back in 2015. Its mission: The Student Conduct Committee shall be responsible for recommending to the Board of Trustees of the University of…
President Schill has mounted an ambitious campaign to increase UO’s four-year graduation rate through better advising, predictive analytics, and what a Nobel prize winning economist might call “nudges” such as encouraging new students to self-identify as the “Class of 2021” etc. Some have suggested that, in comparison to Schill, previous…
In the NYT today: … The Justice Department is exploring possible racketeering, money laundering and honest services fraud charges related to two track and field world championship events and the business executives who have consulted on bids for various other elite competitions, according to one of the subpoenas, which was…