UO’s overpaid VP for Research Brad Shelton is going to have an interesting time rationalizing these low retention offers. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here: At least one UO brain researcher has already been poached. Clifford Kentros, a neuroscientist in the psychology department, who designed and produced…
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Updated in real-time as reports from the faculty parties roll in. Send your unverified rumors and overheard gossip to uomatters at gmail dot com. I’ll post when I’ve finished my Martini. Or just add a comment. 10/3/2014, 7:47 PM: Reports of Interim President Coltrane’s competency continue to roll in: An unverified…
Update: Jennifer Freyd and Carly Smith gave an impressive hour long talk to the City Club. It certainly resonated with the audience, who asked questions about the role of alcohol and sports and perpetrators. Interim President Scott Coltrane was there. I think it would be hard for any reasonable person…
10/2/2014: Seems like a good time to repost this: 11/29/2013: Every year the state runs a Charitable Fund Drive for employees. You know the drill. You get a few emails from your department head, asking you to sign up for payroll deductions to support community groups like the United Way,…
Update: For a more serious take on the Freyd survey and the Adam Ritz athletics training, read Camilla Mortensen in the Eugene Weekly, here. 10/2/2014: The Oregon Commentator is in hibernation, but fortunately the DailyJade.com has taken up what Dave Frohnmayer affectionately called the OC’s “beery indifference to the law of defamation“: Meanwhile, ESPN…
After the Freyd survey on UO rape and institutional betrayal, and the news reports on the astonishing lengths the UO administration went to keep the basketball rape allegations (and what else?) out of these reports, it’s hard to take them very seriously, but there is some presumably reliable data on…
I know what you’re thinking: Johnson Hall is going to start making decisions based on data? That would be news. Last time we checked in Provost Jim Bean didn’t even know how to calculate a percentage. But if they ever want to, they can now get slightly more info, in much…
9/30/2014: Now with a report from KATU News. UO’s well-paid PR flacks Craig Pintens and Tobin Klinger were apparently not willing to talk about this one on camera: 928/2014: It is, of course, common for repentant criminals to give “scared straight” talks about how their bad choices ruined their lives.…
We all know Mike’s $940K richer, and that he’s technically on the books at UC-Irvine as a Criminology professor for $240K a year. But what’s he really doing? My guess is that he’s topping off that $240K with some serious AAU money – in the spirit of his mentor Bob…
Excellent reporting. Read it all, here: … Targeting low-income students helps diversity because minority students are statistically more likely to fall into the low-income bracket, according to Grant Schoonover, an adviser for Pathway Oregon. “There’s a greater number of first generation and historically underrepresented students in that cross-section,” Schoonover said.…
The Student Press Law Center has the story, here: Krakauer, author of “Into the Wild” and “Under the Banner of Heaven,” is working on a book about sexual assaults at universities and was seeking information about the 2012 case involving the university’s quarterback, Jordan Johnson. According to the Helena District…
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One of the more amusing parts of last year’s union bargaining was watching HLGR’s Sharon Rudnick try to get her head around intellectual property issues. The UO faculty negotiators and David Cecil (UAUO) and Mike Mauer (AAUP) did their best to give her an education while she charged UO $300…
Mike Gottfredson wanted respect too. So he got Doug Blandy and Tim Gleason to demand that the faculty union CBA included a clause requiring that the faculty respect him. Then he had Blandy and Gleason and Randy Geller write this “open letter”, attacking me for blogging about him without due…
Julie Brown has the story in “Around the 0”. Penny Daugherty is in charge of “investigations” and “accommodation”. And there will be a new AVP Director of “Talent Acquisition”. You can’t make this shit up: