Nick Budnick reports in the Portland Tribune. Sort of reminds me of former UO VPSA Robin Holmes’s attempt to manipulate UO student voters, here.
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Around the O has info here. Yes the VPAA reports to the EVPAA, and yes we know that’s a violation of the normal rule that the longer your title the less important your job.
Seems like an excellent choice. Around the O has the details.
8/3/2017 update: That’s not a rumor, it’s a fact. Meanwhile, reports from staff survivors are that the inside temperature hit 92 an hour ago. Here’s the report from last year: 8/19/2016: Faculty Union to sue university over cruel and inhumane lack of AC in PLC The NYT has the story here. Just kidding about…
8/3/2017 update: No charges filed against former Dana Altman player Dylan Darling has the latest in the RG here: Police at a small college in Wyoming have closed a sexual assault case involving a member of the University of Oregon’s Final Four basketball team and no charges will be filed.…
We can only hope so. Under the porky contract that AD Rob Mullens negotiated, and Chuck Lillis and the UO Board of Trustees Executive Committee approved in Feb 2015, UO is still on the hook for $10M or so in salary payments to Helfrich, even though Mullens fired him last…
I wonder how long before one of Rob Mullens’ unpaid student-athletes stands up to the system. Probably a while. They are pretty scared, and with good reason. The Washington Post explains: … The NCAA released a statement of its own, saying the kickoff specialist could have kept making the YouTube…
Seems he’s pretty well qualified: Around the O has more here: Wineland in the news A Nobel for Teasing Out the Secret Life of Atoms (The New York Times) Quantum Computing Wins a Nobel (The New Yorker) Scientists are close to building a quantum computer that can beat a conventional one(Science Magazine)…
Gosh, I wonder whose idea this was. Faculty with 9 month contracts start on Sept 15. Classes start Sept 25th. And the UO Board of Trustees meets Sept 7-8. But at least the Board’s December meeting will be at a time when our Trustees can expect to have a chance…
The variance on the prediction that the rate of return on investments over the next 20 years will be 7.2% and not 7.5% is so large that those PERS consultants willing to say 7.2% with a straight face must be very well paid indeed. As Professor Fearless explains in today’s…
InsideHigherEd here. Also see Ted Bergstrom’s page here. Why is the prestigious AAU apparently doing nothing to help its librarians combine to fight the predatory monopolistic science publishers? The non-profit JSTOR once seemed like it had some promise, but now it seems to function as a part of the big…
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-uc-irvine-rescissions-20170728-story.html
KEZI has a good if brief video report on SAIL here. KLCC has a report here, and Around the O here. SAIL is UO’s largest and most successful diversity initiative. The goal is to get more HS students that “should go to college, but are not now on the college track”…
I’m no brother of the Shenandoah Stonewall Jackson (sic) Council of The Order of the Arrow, but I now understand why we kept that red-hot poker in the campfire:
UOM agents have acquired photographic evidence that the new Hayward Field “cell phone tower” – Diane Dietz story here – is actually a disguised Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, now in the final stages of fueling. The Duck athletic department, whose leadership has long viewed UO’s faculty as an existential threat, now…