June Update: Sine die is nigh This issue provides an update and summary of some of the major budget decisions affecting Oregon’s public universities. Last week when the Governor and House and Senate leaders announced they could not reach an agreement on revenue reform this session, both chambers started moving…
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Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing & Public Relations Craig Pintens has the great news! (Apparently Craig has blocked me on twitter, but that means nothing to google’s searchbots – now if only I could figure out how to turn this one off): Of course this is the NCAA, so…
Any man who is scared of grandmothers has done something very, very bad. He’d better hope they don’t find out what. The NYT has the news here.
Who knows how many millions of dollars and how much damage to UO’s “brand” Dana Altman and his enablers have cost us so far, and how much is still to come. But for now, Dylan Darling has the good news in the RG here: … U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in…
This is old news, but presumably the BBC thinks they might shake up some new sources with a reminder: …Now, the BBC understands, the American authorities – including tax investigators at the IRS – are seeking to investigate if there has been any wrongdoing committed in the US, bringing to…
This is what happens when your city council bans Uber. The RG has the details here.
Stanford economist Paul Milgrom has a good explanation of the theory of the winner’s curse here. Oregonian sports reporter Ken Goe has the latest evidence here. Eugene lost the bid but that was probably a win, considering the cost of winning the bid: USA Track Track & Field has awarded the 2020 Olympic…
Inside Higher Ed reports on the NACUA meeting here: … “We feel as an administration, and particularly Candice and I feel, that it is very, very important to adopt these positions, work these issues through in a collaborative approach with the people out there in the field,” Wheeler said to growing…
Saul Hubbard has the good news in the RG here: For the UO, the extra money for public universities would translate roughly to an extra $10 million in funding over the next two years. That would more than cover the cost of “buying down” the tuition increase by 4 percent…
The UO VPEI website is here, Dr. Alex-Assensoh’s c.v. is on the UL website here, the UL search committee info is here.
That’s the conclusion of the Heterodox Academy, a group of about 1000 professors interested in promoting intellectual diversity. (Chicago is #1). We lose points for our low rating from FIRE and for the related recent anti-free speech efforts of our administration – some of which have been beaten off by…
That would be the University of British Columbia. Jennifer Berdahl’s blog has the details here.
Their enrollment is down 35%, but their faculty count is up and the new hiring plan gives them 2 TTF hires. If this were the humanities, the dean would be laying off NTTF’s and freezing TTF hiring. I don’t know why the law school gets special treatment. These may be…
This press release from the Oregon Senate Republican Whip might be slightly over the top. Full disclosure: I’m the UAUO Union Bagman, a.k.a. Treasurer, and I’m going to assume he meant to write “Big Union bogeymen”: from the office of SENATE MINORITY WHIP DENNIS LINTHICUM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26,…