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According to Wikipedia, indentured servitude has been illegal in the US for quite a while: … Several Acts passed by the American and British governments helped foster the decline of indentures. The Passenger Vessels Act 1803, an Act of the UK Parliament which regulated travel conditions aboard ships, attempted to make…
It turns out that our administration’s fears of a Johnson Hall neo-Nazi occupation were a bit overblown. The Emerald has the report here, courtesy of the remarkably understated Max Thornberry. The Nazis got even fewer student spectators than a Duck baseball game.
Dear University of Oregon campus community, Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time in Salem talking with lawmakers about the urgent need for additional state funding for public higher education. Elected officials tell me they understand the critical importance of higher education to the future…
According to Google Scholar, ranked by # of citations: 1 Paul Slovic Decision Research and University of Oregon, Cited by 138270 2 Michael I. Posner Prof Emeritus of psychology University of Oregon, Cited by 113549 3 Mark Johnson Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon,…
From https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB481/A-Engrossed Lots of testimony from Pete Shepherd, who as Deputy AG did so much to destroy the promise of Dave Frohnmayer’s public records law – and famously lost the PERS case to the Oregonian, while working for Harrang et al. The new law, which comes out of AG Ellen Rosenblum…
From the docket here: ORDER: Granting Defendant’s Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Answer 6 . Answer is due by 5/18/2017. Ordered by Judge Michael J. McShane. (cp) (Entered: 04/17/2017) Attorney Shayda Le of Portland’s Barran Liebman law firm is the same lawyer our administration hired, along with partner Edwin Harden, to defend…
The NYT has the story here: … Her answer: “A, it won’t, because there are things government doesn’t get to, and B, you’re missing it.” Mr. Ballmer replied, “No, I’m not.” That conversation led Mr. Ballmer to pursue what may be one of the most ambitious private projects undertaken to answer…
“Dear X: Letters from the Classroom” Reimagining Undergraduate Education through Theater and Dialogue Week 3: Tues, Apr. 18 4:00-6:00pm, Global Scholars Hall Great Room Refreshments will be served More events here.
From the Chronicle, here: Faculty members at Cornell University are speaking out against its decision to hold a hearing to determine whether a student who shared an internal working document with the campus newspaper should be punished, The Cornell Daily Sun reports. … The document detailed proposed changes in the…
That would be the State of Kentucky, here. Meanwhile, here in Oregon, the state legislature is on the way to expanding its poorly designed free community college plan. The technical term is “lose-lose”. Saul Hubbard has an excellent story on the results of Oregon State Senator Mark Haas’s experiment: free community college…
Here. As a private school, Stanford has more legal power to restrict free speech than public universities, although this example shows legal power is not always that powerful:
From the official comment free CAS blog here: With a College as big as ours, most days are filled with a churn of short-run issues that involve quick turnarounds. But one of the things that I enjoy and admire about our dean, Andrew Marcus, is his ability to always see…
From OSU’s Jock Mills. Sorry, I meant to post this a while back. OSU also has a helpful page on whether or not you should panic over the proposed PERS reforms here. Also check Mr. Fearless here and the Legislative site on SB 650 here. Rumor has it that some departments…