An Op-Ed in the Oregonian here. Children and young adults should not be pawns in a political battle, but that is exactly what is happening in Washington, D.C., as our nation’s lawmakers debate immigration and border security. …
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We covered this in the sixth grade. Did UO’s Johnson Hall leadership skip that lesson? Fortunately our students didn’t.
Presumably the 4:30 open discussion will focus on the student conduct code charges that the administration is pressing against the UO Collective Students. There will also be important info about upcoming decisions on expedited tenure and undergraduate honors. Livestream: https://media.uoregon.edu/channel/ Agenda from https://senate.uoregon.edu/calendar/senate-meetings-2017-18/ Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00…
A University Nets a Huge Donation and Students Protest. What’s Going On Here? … So let us agree that the UO protesters were rude and perhaps misguided. Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young. Does that make their concerns about escalating tuition any less valid, especially considering the optics at play?…
IHE has the latest from my old school Columbia’s president Lee Bollinger here. More to come I’m sure.
No, I’m not talking about the $6M the law school will burn this year trying to maintain its US News ranking (just $3M more than budgeted) or the $3.5M our VPEI will blow on window-dressing “Diversity Action Plans”, or the fact that our students and president are busy calling each…
The Emerald has the story here about how Taggart is “committed” to Oregon despite the Florida job. I’m no economist, but what’s “committed” mean in dollars? Duck AD Rob Mullens is famously easy to roll – just ask Mark Helfrich, Dana Altman, or Eric Roedl. I’ll give my last University of…
That would be OSU’s Government Relations Office. Sure it’s only October, and the session is 3 months away, but the early bird gets the worm:
From: “Mills, Jock”
Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] OSU Government Relations Update — Looking to the 2018 Legislative Session and Beyond
Date: October 30, 2017 at 4:41:46 PM PDT
Update: Thanks to a reader for pointing me to another opinion piece in the Emerald on this. It’s not clear if the student is a member of the collective, but she is supportive: On Oct. 13, University of Oregon President Michael Schill wrote an opinion column for the New York Times on…
UO Law Professor Nancy Shurtz has some hard-won and interesting thoughts on the intersection of Halloween, free speech, and diversity in her op-ed here. …Halloween costumes have also been a hot-button issue on college campuses in recent times, brought into the fore by the case of Yale University lecturer Erika Christakis…
In the RG here. The skybridge will connect to the east side of LISB, presumably on the second floor above the LCNI.
UO Prof James Harper (Art History) is something of an expert on these. Maybe the world’s leading expert. He curated the exhibit, and I hear the Schnitzer Museum has displayed them spectacularly. He will lead a special tour for faculty club members, starting at about 6:15 this Wed the 25th: Dear…
Because Oregon was paying her an honorarium and expenses. Actually, the visa waiver rules allow that. The INS eventually admitted it and let her in – after first sending her to Canada. At that point it was too expensive to rebook everything, so she went home. Inside Higher Ed has…
The Daily Emerald has the latest from Deady Hall here.
I’m not a big fan of this term, what with me being white and all, but this may be the canonical example. His privilege? The cops tased him and took him to court instead of shooting him dead. The story doesn’t say if it was a Stihl or a Husqvarna.…