A long analysis in the Chronicle of Higher Ed from Jacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen, professors at Harvard Law School. (May be gated if off campus): Often with the best of intentions, the federal government in the past six years has presided over the creation of a sex bureaucracy…
UO Matters
Some good news from the UO Alumni Association – no “Go Ducks!” on the plate, and although their pitch does include the usual sports hype, the money goes for academic scholarships:
Not sure how this will interact with the administration’s plan for free speech zones: I’m hoping that last link takes our students to Yvon Chouinard’s classic work on how to reach new heights despite a hostile environment, but probably not.
I could click the link, but I’d really rather not know what this is about:
Not without a formal judgement by her peers following established procedures. In fact the administration can’t even punish her without that. Academic freedom is still pretty strong at UO. See the “final investigative report” from UO’s employment law specialists Edwin A. Harnden & Shayda Z. Le of Barran Liebman, LLP, and the letter from…
UO is now requiring members of search committees to take “implicit bias training”. The administration has hired diversity consultants to train the deans and others on it. I took a version offered at a recent BOT meeting, complete with doing the Implicit Association Test, and thought it was pretty interesting.…
That’s the tag-line from the editor of the Hood River News, attacking Duck AD Rob Mullens for pissing away UO’s tuition money on assistant coaches of this and that. When you’ve lost the hearts and minds of the strategic hamlets, you’ve lost the war. That said, his attack on cousin Jim…
In November Vikram Amar, Dean of the University of Illinois law school reviewed the legal issues with UO law dean Michael Mofffitt’s decision to suspend Professor Shurtz from teaching on the well-read law blog Above the Law: “On Academic Freedom, Administrative Fairness, And Blackface“. On November 14th UO law professor Ofer…
You know who you are, but chill, this post is about firewood. Good news – I’ve looked through the policy library, and there’s nothing preventing UO faculty, staff, or administrators from bringing in a chainsaw and helping themselves to a few of the hundreds of cords of firewood now lying…
I’ve just posted the beginning and end. Read it all here: UO is right to insist upon cultural competency Get over it!” “It’s no big deal!” “You’re too sensitive!” “There are people with real problems in the world!” “Let it go and move on with your life!” As an African-American…
That’s a book I’m going to want to read. More here.
From InsideHigherEd: Jobs for economics Ph.D.s — whether they wish to work in or outside academe — are plentiful, according to new data from the American Economic Association. At the end of 2016, the association had recorded 3,673 listings for positions for Ph.D.s in the calendar year. That’s up 11.2 percent…
UO Law prof Ofer Raban, on the Oregonian Op-Ed page, identifying a series of problems with the investigation report commissioned by the UO general counsel’s office from Edwin A. Harnden & Shayda Z. Le of Barran Liebman, LLP, one of several firms specializing in representing employers in legal disputes that UO currently…
And 3,999 UOM comments, compared to 0 for Around the O and the CAS Dean’s blog combined Although it’s getting closer for searches:
The Duck coaches, that is. The NCAA’s student-athletes get unpaid internships with brain damage. Kenny Jacoby has the latest in the Emerald here. And those coaches aren’t using those millions to pay it forward when it comes to the annual University Employees Charitable Fund Drive. Just seven donations from Athletics, with two days…