The full list of officially approved UO workplace news is on Around the O here. 1) Scott Pratt, Extraordinary Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, gets some much needed help: Scott Pratt, executive vice provost for academic affairs, announced that Ellen Herman, professor of history and faculty co-director of University of Oregon’s…
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10/1/2017: Among the years of reports, last summer Daily Emerald reporter Max Thornberry had this about this famously mismanaged office, here. A snippet: Concerns about the timeliness and effectiveness of the AAEO office [aren’t] new. A 2014 report from the ombuds office found that, “classified staff report high levels of distrust…in the fairness, competence…
Pintens was recently demoted from his job of Duck spokesperson and replaced by Jimmy Stanton. Then he failed to get the deputy AD job at Purdue. Now Mullens has put him in charge of selling football tickets. I’m not sure he’s really got it figured out yet. Pintens is trying…
9/29/2017:
http://ia601505.us.archive.org/2/items/gov.uscourts.ord.132472/gov.uscourts.ord.132472.19.0.pdf
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9/6/2017: UO lawyers want to out anonymous plaintiff in sexual misconduct case
I’m posting this for the record, I don’t pretend to understand it all. Like many universities, UO’s GCO pulls out FERPA when they want to avoid disclosing unpleasant info, for example when athletes are accused of assaults. But in this case UO’s hired attorneys are in favor of transparency and naming names.
Dennis Galvan (Poli Sci) is the new head of Undergraduate Studies. I know I’ve said a few unkind things about Dennis in the past, but that was only because I knew he was a better man than Ali Bongo deserved. UGS is the right job for him. I’m not being…
I’ve always said that the UO administration could end this muckraking website any time they wanted to, simply by being honest and transparent. A quick glance at the public records log will convince you that our Johnson Hall leadership is not there yet. However, if current trends continue, UO M will…
Thanks to The Oregonian for the lodging advice: It’s unclear where Sondland would serve his diplomatic post, if nominated by Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Fifty of the 188 U.S. ambassadorships are vacant, according to the American Foreign Service Association. There are some plum openings, however, including vacant…
Kenny Jacoby in the Weekly: Contracts between the UO athletic department and its employees often include a clause saying the department will provide the employee one or two courtesy cars to use during their employment. The clauses also state that if the athletic department is unable to provide a car,…
I’m no former marine electrician, but it’s harder than you’d think. I asked a union friend and he sent me some links. The first one had a default of $9.99 a month and no way to change it. I’m guessing it’s a bit hard for them to update their website…
Update: Chief Carmichael reported the cost as $3533.41. So the winner is longtime commenter “Fishwrapper” at $3768.79, runner up is Amy Adams at $3137. Congrats to you both, please contact our swag office with a mailing address, or if you prefer the location of a dead-drop site far from security…
Call me a cynic, but it’s as if Trump’s AG Jeff Sessions is trying his best to destroy support for free speech among college students. That can’t be his goal, can it? What evidence is there, other than his lifetime of efforts to deny people their voting rights? The NYT…
Dear University of Oregon campus community, As I drove onto campus this week, I got a familiar feeling of excitement. New students were settling into their residence halls and beginning to navigate the campus. Returning students were greeting each other and catching up on what they did during the summer.…
ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare Jeffrey T. Denning, Benjamin M. Marx, Lesley J. Turner NBER Working Paper No. 23860 Issued in September 2017 NBER Program(s): ED LS PE We estimate the effect of grant aid on poor college students’ attainment and earnings using student-level administrative data from four-year public colleges…
The NYT reports the FBI will hold a press conference today: A second indictment charges five people with paying high school athletes or their families to attend particular universities. Those indicted include James Gatto, identified as the head of global sports marketing, basketball for “Company-1.” Though it is not named,…
ODE reporter Kenny Jacoby is back from a summer internship at NBC TV in San Diego, and he’s wasting no time getting to work. Today the Emerald has the most comprehensive accounting I’ve seen yet of the ~$5M a year in subsidies that UO’s academic side pays to Rob Mullens…