Meeting of the Board — 1:45PM December 1-2, 2016 [Materials] The 2015-16 audited financial statements are finally posted here, with past statements here. Spending on Instruction is up 9% over 3 years, spending on research is down, spending on Institutional Support (i.e. administration) is up 17%. Despite previous requests from the…
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Max Thornberry has the news here: “The matter is not one within the purview of the Senate, but President Schill always welcomes the advice and helpful assistance of the Senate Chair and Vice Chair,” Tobin Klinger, university communications officer said in an email to the Emerald. “He has asked the…
Breaking news: Governor to cut real Higher Ed operating budget, won’t give HECC their requested extra $100M, will fund construction, will blow $35M on “free” community college. In the Oregonian: Gov. Kate Brown is proposing a roughly equal combination of new revenues and program cuts to close a looming $1.7 billion…
Will Campbell has the report on today’s Senate meeting, in the Daily Emerald here: My amendment to keep the IAC in reserve failed narrowly, and I then voted with the ayes to replace the Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee with a purely advisory IAAC. I regard the agreement as symbolic of the desire of…
The Senate meets today. Lots of interesting stuff on the Senate website at senate.uoregon.edu. Please comment there not here. The Faculty Club will be open 5-8 Wed and Thu this week. Remember, faculty can bring a guest. Rumor is that the suggestion box will be open, in case anyone has recommendations for an…
11/29/2016 update: The RG’s Ryan Thornburn has the shocking details here.
Or at least I think it was the basketball coach – he’s about to drop out of the rankings too. But maybe his buyout is next year.
Meanwhile, Mullens, Altman, Helfrich and the other well-paid Athletic Department employees haven’t been giving much to the University’s Charitable Fund Drive for state and community charities:
11/28/2016 update: Matt Helfrich wins excellent $9.4M buyout with lousy 34-44 Civil War loss
Why does it always have to be a 5-year plan? It’s simple. The Nazi’s gave the 4-year plan a bad name. The Poles tried a 6-year plan, but gave up after 5. Jesuits do 7-year plans, but they’ve got eternity on their side. So while the inventor of the 5-year plan was not exactly a saint, 5…
11/13/2016: In a podcast with a Black UO philosophy student, posted on the Daily Emerald website here: Professor Coleman’s undergraduate work was in theater. He started the Ethnic Studies program at UO. He says the administration should have thought before condemning Shurtz. He connects white emcees making money off blackface to white…
Some group of far-right-wing cranks has started a website where students can report their professors for being too liberal. I assume they got the idea from UO’s Bias Response Team, which encouraged students to report faculty for not being liberal enough. (The UO shut down that part of the BRT website, in response…
for violating team rules about interviewing athletes. That would be at Baylor: Police charged Heath Nielsen, Baylor’s associate athletic director for communications, after James McBride, a reporter from the Keller, Texas-based Texas Blaze News, told police Nielsen assaulted him Nov. 5 after the Bears’ 62-22 loss to TCU in Waco,…
More good news on fundraising from Around the O: His many admirers considered Dave Frohnmayer the “leader’s leader,” and now his legacy will live on permanently at the University of Oregon School of Law through the new Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law, made possible by a lead gift…
Jennifer Gomez (Psychology), has an excellent op-ed in the RG today. Read it all, here’s an excerpt: … Over the years, I have witnessed and participated in protests and marches, and I have watched the UO change. I have watched victims of sexual violence publicly find their voices. I have…
11/18/2016: In the RG here: Holland [a recent UO graduate] claims that Darren Carrington, a wide receiver on the Ducks football team whom he had just watched play in the game against Arizona State, assaulted him early on Oct. 30, pushing him to the ground outside an apartment complex near East…
A sketch of Ms Irene Hazard Gerlinger. She was the unstoppable force behind the construction of UO’s Gerlinger Hall, and it was named in her honor in 1929: So which of our Board’s members would have the gall to propose taking this remarkable woman’s name off the building she created? She would. Franklin Lewis has the story in the Emerald here.…
Rumor has it that the faculty’s official safe space will be open from 5-8 today (Wed) and tomorrow.
11/1/2016: Real-life UO Faculty Club to replace deplorable on-line rumor mill