Bob Keefer has the rumor – but the details are behind his gated Eugene Art Talk blog, here.
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Three years after they were formed, two years after they got Glocks, one year after the Bowl of Dicks. It’s strange, I haven’t heard anything about this in the Senate or Senate Exec. Around the 0 has the story here. Who is on the committee? How did they get appointed?…
Presumably one of the agenda items will be the AAU’s efforts to develop a profitable “Campus Climate Survey” to compete with Jennifer Freyd’s free open-source alternative. The AAU has a pretty bloated administrative structure, paying both their current president (Hunter Rawlings) and what looks like an extra year’s salary to…
Inside Higher Ed has the story, here: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education published the final rules to carry out changes to the Clery Act today, requiring colleges and universities to collect and disclose crime statistics about the number of reported crimes that were investigated and determined to be…
In 1982 the OUS Board approved this Internal Management Directive, presumably in response to some long forgotten athletic scandal. They reaffirmed it in 2013, and in 2014 the UO Board adopted OUS’s policies and IMD’s wholesale, while they work out revisions. UO has hired Pernsteiner’s former right hand man Chuck…
Duck athletics has $350M so far, expects another $430M from $2B fund drive. Remainder for academics.
10/19/2014: That’s half the $700M raised so far in this drive, plus 1/3 of the remaining $1.3B goal, based on the Andreasen quote below. Can anyone explain why the academic side is still subsidizing the athletic department’s bills? The Daily Emerald’s Alexandra Wallachy has a good interview with VP for Advancement Mike Andreassen,…
In the NYT, here. … My story is not unique. In July, Kathryn B. H. Clancy and her co-authors Robin G. Nelson, Julienne N. Rutherford and Katie Hinde published a survey of 666 field-based scientists in the journal PLoS One and reported that 26 percent of the female scientists surveyed…
No, it’s not in the giant white tent in Hayward Field. South Eugene HS, 5:30.
Noelle Crombie has the report in the Oregonian, here: Economist Ben Hansen discussed the potential implications for Oregon if voters approve legal recreational marijuana in the November election. Hansen, whose work focuses on the economics of risky behavior, spoke at the Oregon Economic Forum, sponsored by the University of Oregon…
Update: Good news for shared governance. Going on now, room 402 Alumni Center. I’ll do a little live-blogging. Kyr introduces them by noting that this is the first time in 4 years we’ve had a President or a Provost willing to meet with the Senate Exec. Discussion is about how…
From a letter to the RG editors: The year 1932 saw disastrous changes at the university. The Oregon Legislature, in a misguided cost-saving effort, decided to remove science instruction and make the UO a liberal arts university, with Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) becoming the science college in…
Eugene Volokh has the story here. One complaint is that the policies were imposed by the administration. Not a worry here at UO! VP Robin Holmes sat on the recommended changes for three years doing nothing, and Mike Gottfredson did his best to hide the rape allegations from our tender…
Story by Jake New in InsideHigherEd about Spellman College. In 2012, the number of students enrolled in fitness classes at the college’s wellness center was 278. That number is now more than 1,300. Spelman’s undergraduate enrollment is about 2,100 students. “One of the things colleges try to create with students…
10/15/2014: Thought I’d repost this email showing that it was current Interim GC Doug Park who sat on the public records requests which eventually led to the firing of Melinda Grier. Park seems to be at it again, with the help of Dave Hubin. The PR Office is using fees,…
Coltrane has said he’d clean this up. So what’s the hold-up now? Hi Dave, any progress on the info requests below? Bill Harbaugh UO Prof. of Economics On TuesdayOct 7, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Dave, also can you pass on any info about PRAAG meetings…