Dear members of the University of Oregon community, The University of Oregon is proud to be a welcoming and inclusive campus that supports the rights of every member of our community, including people of all genders and gender identities. Recently, there have been events that have left many transgender students…
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The AAUP has the story here.
Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce that Marcilynn Burke will join the University of Oregon as dean of the School of Law. She will begin on July 1. An outstanding scholar and leader, Burke currently serves as associate dean and associate professor of law at the University of Houston,…
When I read this RG letter from retired UO Bio professor Frank Stahl I didn’t understand what the hell he was trying to say. UO Poli Sci professor Gerry Berk did, and he does us all a service by explaining how it fits into the history of anti-Semitic thought. In the RG here: We find…
Reporter Jack Pitcher has a good report on the bad UO Public Records situation, in the Emerald here: Multiple University of Oregon students were arrested this year, an assistant football coach was paid over $60,000 for less than a week of work and one visit to campus by an author…
USAToday has the latest: The bidding process for the 2021 World Championships in Athletics — the first global track and field championships awarded to the United States —- remains under scrutiny as investigators continue to probe bribery allegations at several international events. French prosecutors are investigating cash-for-vote allegations that may have played…
3/10/2017 update: InsideHigherEd has the bracket here: A reminder that not all coaches exploit their players as much as the Ducks. This tongue-in-cheek bracket is based on the teams “Academic Progress Rate”, an easily scammed measure designed by the NCAA to make big-time college sports took good, and help their coaches…
$25K for Coach Dana Altman, that is. His players get nothing. UO tops off Altman’s $1.8M salary with a $850K retention bonus, 2 cars, country club membership, away-game travel for his spouse etc, and also $25K for getting into the tournament plus more for getting into higher brackets. That new contract is…
Cooper Green has the report in the Emerald here. According to the public records log, it took UO 12 days just to provide the 3 page boiler-plate contract.
That would be Chicago State University. The Chicago Tribune has the news here. Thanks to the excellent CSU Faculty Voice blog for the link.
Presumably naked self-interest on the part of college coaches and other athletic department employees getting rich off the labor of college football and basketball players is the main explanation for their opposition to the idea of paying their “student-athletes”. Racism also has some explanatory power: Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward…
This is a sad day for the University of Oregon. Diane Dietz deserves more than a little credit for the turnaround in the honesty and competence of the UO administration that we’ve seen in the last few years. When I came to UO in 1995 the RG’s coverage of UO amounted to…
An anonymous reader has been trying for months to get some simple public records from UO. They filed the request with the UO Public Records Office, they eventually got an estimate of the costs, and they paid it. Their check was cashed by UO. Then they waited some more. Months more. They…
That’s about 0.15 Gottfredsons, 0.005 Helfriches, or enough to pay a NTTF for a year and a half. Ryan Thorburn has the scoop in the RG here: Oregon paid former football assistant coach David Reaves a total of $63,750 in compensation for his brief employment as Willie Taggart’s co-offensive coordinator and tight ends…
I’ll get this contest started with entry #1, from Room 30 Pacific Hall. Most of the seat desks have been replaced with formica, but it appears the Facilities Services carpenters didn’t have the heart to rip out this motivational creation – from the back row, of course: Entry #1, “Focus on Class” Send…