UO Matters

FRIDAY: 8:30 am: Liveblog disclaimer: I’m no neuroscience professor. 2. Research Area in Focus ‐ Neuroscience:    Chris Doe, Professor of Biology and Co‐Director of the  Institute  of  Neuroscience  (ION);  Chris Doe starts off with a talk about how scientists can now grow self-organizing functional clusters of neurons from skin cells, and use these to study early brain-development and study drug effectiveness. David McCormick, Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Yale University McCormick…

The RG has the story here. Here’s the softball cash flow: $135K in tickets, ~$700K on salaries, and $624K on “miscellaneous”:

That would be in Australia, from the (London) Times. For a cogent explanation of how higher education has been one of the U.S.’s most successful export industries – and I know how painful it must be for some of our Trustees to admit that professors have done better than timber…

InsideHigherEd, here: I moved into an apartment in a University of Southern California undergraduate residence hall as an assistant professor in the summer of 1989. … Over the years, I’ve watched the USC student affairs function and staff professionalize, just as they have at most other institutions. Positions that were…

It’s a common conundrum – how do you get rid of a bad administrator? Fire them, or help them move on to another university by writing a good letter? The UF Dean of Students took the later approach with her Title IX Coordinator – and it ended with both of them…

Jock has developed quite a following among those at UO who are interested in what’s happening in Salem, given that UO’s own State Affairs Office has a hard time rounding up 5 votes in the HECC. His latest: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] May Update: Revenue issues, upcoming deadlines, and…

That would be at Evergreen State, a public university in Washington. Scott Jaschik of InsideHigherEd has the story here. Comments comparing this to UO’s reaction to the “Halloween Incident” are welcome, but I’m enforcing Euler’s Rule with vigor.

Here. Good luck with that – although at least the subsidies haven’t increased under Schill, and the rumors about the end of baseball are a promising sign.

Reporter Max Thornberry in the Emerald, here: …Current ASUO leadership disagrees with its predecessors. External Vice President Vickie Gimm told the Emerald that Haaga and Fisher did not represent her because they are graduating seniors who “should not be speaking on behalf of the students who will be affected by…

One of the dead was an Army veteran with 23 years of service, the other was a 23-year-old Reed economics graduate. The wounded man was a PSU student and poet. The Oregonian has continuing coverage.

Former Duck AD and booster Pat Kilkenny hired baseball coach Greg Horton back in 2010, and he is now 100% behind renewing his good friend’s $600K a year contract, despite the millions Horton has lost for UO. Kenny Jacoby has the red ink in the Emerald: Steve Mims has the quotes in the RG:…

This may be a first. Past Chronicle stories about UO have focused on such negatives as Bob Berdhahl’s double dipping, Richard Lariviere’s firing, Mike Gottfredson’s efforts to subvert academic freedom, Randy Geller’s attempt to convince the Trustees to destroy the UO Senate, the hilariously over the top Duck athletic spending, and…

And thanks to the HECC’s recent change of heart on tuition increases, we won’t have to cut this program. In yellow, you can see that the 4-year graduation rate for Pell eligible (i.e. low income, often minority/first generation) UO undergrads has gone from 36.8% for the 2003 cohort to 47.1%…