Analysis from the State Legislative analysts, here.
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The LCB has been without a permanent dean since Kees de Kluyver “retired” in spring 2015, to take a year’s leave at full pay, and give up his tenure. Nutter seems like a great hire, who will add some real diversity – as in diversity of thought – to UO’s…
Good idea – but a blog without comments? Chickens: From: CAS Dean <[email protected]> Subject: [Cas-allemps] Announcing a new internal communication vehicle, Thinking About CAS Date: October 6, 2016 at 8:03:00 AM PDT To: “‘[email protected]'” <[email protected]> In the spirit of open communication and fostering a lively exchange of ideas, the CAS…
The search committee is here: Paul Elstone, Sr. Associate Vice President, Development, [email protected] Jennifer Espinola, Dean of Students, School of Law, [email protected] Ibrahim Gassama, Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Tom Lininger, Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Mohsen Manesh, Associate Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Michelle McKinley, Professor, School of Law,…
Will Campbell of the ODE has a brief report on the meeting here. Senate Meeting Agenda – Oct 5, 2016 Location: Gerlinger Lounge; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 1.1 Introductory Remarks, Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:05 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 May 25,…
The new Senate blog is part of the new Senate website at senate.uoregon.edu. The blog link is in the upper right hand corner. Anyone can see everything, and anyone with a uoregon.edu email can post comments – your email address will show up as “author” (there’s a log in screen first,…
Oh good, another college-athlete sues the NCAA cartel. Docket here, complaint here: Blurb from BG&S law firm here: DAWSON V. NCAA AND PAC-12 CONFERENCE: ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT Lamar Dawson (“Dawson”), a former University of Southern California student-athlete, filed suit against the NCAA and Pac-12 Conference. In…
Dear Colleagues, As we embark on a search for our next provost and senior vice president, the Provost Search Committee is eager to hear from the campus community about the qualities and attributes you would like to see in our next provost. My fellow committee members and I invite you…
9/29/2016: In response to questions about how likely it was that Professor Dunn was duped into becoming the leader of the Eugene KKK in the early 1920’s, I asked Elizabeth Peterson, the cinema studies librarian and film archivist in the UO Libraries, about local showings of “The Birth of a Nation”, the infamously…
As he should be. Diane Dietz has the report from VP for Everything Roger Thompson, on UO’s class of 2020 here. It’s mostly good news, and for once there’s no BS about how students come to UO for the winning Duck football team and our big-time sports party-school brand. And take note, freshmen. You’re the class…
You can’t make this shit up. Coach Dana Altman berates his players about their #BlackLivesMatter protest, AD Rob Mullens has a policy allowing athletes to be kicked out for failing one piss test for *legal* pot smoking, former cop Tom Hart is paid to monitor how players use social media and PF flack Craig Pintens…
In the RG here: “Ask for consent — sober consent — and respect the answer you get,” he said. “And if after hearing what I just said you’re chuckling to yourself or to your neighbor, the door is over there. You don’t belong with us.” The room erupted in applause. It…
Rumor down at the faculty club is that the “timeline updates” for this “renovation”, as Duck Advocate Tobin Klinger puts it, are needed because the Mariota Sports Performance Center has depleted the world’s supply of Duck crap and neon-yellow paint:
The Student Press Law Center has the latest news here (from Kentucky, not Oregon): But even the university has taken issue with the foundation’s records-request compliance practices. In a 14-1 vote earlier this month, UL’s Board of Trustees decided that it may sue the foundation if it does not turn over financial…