2/7/2017 update: From: “Oregon Track & Field” Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:45:58 -0800 Subject: Waiver Update To: Oregon Ducks Dear Oregon Track & Field Officials, Thank you for your emails and valuable feedback today regarding the waiver that was part of the online officials database. Because of your input,…
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Just kidding, that’s China. The NYT reports here: Here at UO the resistance has beaten this proposal back – for now – as explained on the Senate website here: We’ll see if we can do the same with our General Counsel’s proposed restrictions on the time, place, and manner of free-speech.
From the tax-exempt non-profit’s ample reserves. The official story here, background here.
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 tuition regardless of how rich you are – in the RG here: -More grant recipients than the state expected come from well-off and middle class families. That reduces the amount…
2/3/2017: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/02/03/elsevier-acquires-altmetrics-provider 10/27/2016: Provost drops $100K subscription to faulty Academic Analytics faculty data This is great news. The $100K that Provost Coltrane just saved will allow UO to hire a tenure track humanities professor. Oh wait, sorry. This comes from the Provost of Georgetown University, Robert Groves. Read his full…
Links to some recent Emerald stories and commentary: UO gifted $12 million more than expected for scholarships in 2016 Administrator selected to support undocumented and international students The tokenization of Ta-Nehisi Coates
The same firm they sued over allegedly defective construction of the Global Scholars dorm. Tran Nguyen has more here.
Yesterday UO’s AVP for Student Success Doneka Scott and Director of Academic Advising Kimberly Johnson talked to the Senate about UO’s efforts to use predictive analytics to help students graduate on time. Today the NYT has a report on similar national efforts – which include using data on social interactions –…
The Chronicle has the news here: Jerry L. Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has been asked by President Trump to head up a new task force that will identify changes that should be made to the U.S. Department of Education’s policies and procedures, Mr. Falwell told The Chronicle on…
Update: Standing room only for an excellent talk from UC-Davis’s attorney for supporting DACA/Dreamer students. Meanwhile our wily neighbors to the north are taking advantage of Trump’s fear-mongering by offering an easy path to Canadian citizenship for international students who get a Canadian college degree. The catch, according to the NYT,…
That’s the proposal from the Oregon State Marine Board. $10 per year. Kayaks and rafts too. Sailboats over 12′ already need to pay a fee.
1/28/2017: My first-grade teacher taught us how to make paper-plate turkeys, and also that the pilgrims came to the new world to escape religious persecution. 1/20/2017: Yecch. Bleah.
FIRE has the report here: At the University of Maryland (UMD), President Wallace Loh issued a statement yesterday in response to a set of 64 demands from ProtectUMD, a coalition of 25 student groups. The demands, issued in late November, include calls for punishing speech protected by the First Amendment.…
Insidehighered has a report on a recent symposium: SAN FRANCISCO — Public trust in colleges and universities is eroding at a time when liberal education is crucial — and institutions must respond aggressively. That was the current running through several panels here Thursday at the annual meeting at the Association…