7/20/2014: In the RG, here. This is silly, the idea has been around forever. OSU does seem to be ahead on implementing it though. But hey, the Beavers can’t beat the Ducks at spending money on sports! 6/28/2014: RG reports on surreal mismanagement of UO research efforts I’m no humanities…
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7/20/2014 update: Kansas community college refuses to hire UO’s disgraced coach Dana Altman Tyson Alger has the story in the Oregonian, here. Oh wait, this is about the *player* Dana Altman brought to campus. Oh well, at least the players get to keep their NCAA tournament bonuses. Wait, those only…
Mostly for assaults involving athletes. Jake New has the report in Inside Higher Ed, here.
Maybe, maybe not. President Ed Ray was a little smarter than Berdahl and Gottfredson. Instead of paying Sharon Rudnick $1M to fight with his faculty, he gave them a big round of raises last year. And today he announced he’s brought in the goats. Fishwrapper sends a link to the awesome time lapse-video of…
Josephine Woolington in the RG: Former University of Oregon basketball player Brandon Austin will not face criminal charges for an alleged sexual assault at Providence College in Rhode Island, his attorney said this morning. Austin’s case was not presented to a grand jury due to what Rhode Island’s attorney general’s…
Update: Apparently Klinger was one of the ghost-writers for this Robin Holmes Op-Ed. In fact it’s not clear if Holmes even read it before it was submitted. The once secret email trail is here. 7/15/2014: UO’s VP for Student Life Robin Holmes (paid $241K a year plus family bowl game…
7/14/2014: From Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, here. More on UO’s revisions to its student conduct code here.
7/14/2014, In Al Jazeera America: … It is not trivial to measure sexual victimization or perpetration, because these are stigmatized behaviors. People don’t readily admit to abusing others or being abused themselves. Researchers have worked for decades to discover how to ask behavior-oriented questions that avoid charged language and pick up…
Above Dana Altman, at #18. I’m not sure how Rob Illig missed out, but this is a well deserved honor from the Oregonian, here: That said, Ms Thornton is just following orders from her boss, President Mike Gottfredson, who is the one who needs to hide things! https://uomatters.com/2014/05/gottgate-timeline-and-questions.html
Here’s some good news: TO: Deans and Department Heads, Directors of Graduate Studies, GTF Contacts, and Graduate Coordinators FROM: Kassy Fisher, UO Graduate School RE: Tuition Support for Grants Funding Level III GTFs (Revised July 2, 2014) Effective Fall 2014, the University will provide support to grants on which GTFs…
Andy Greif of the Oregonian has a round-up of the current situation with the basketball rape allegations, here. The players haven’t found another school to take them, some disputes about the disciplinary process. Gottfredson, Altman, Mullens, and Holmes aren’t talking.
OK, maybe she didn’t post it. But someone sent it to me and here it is. From outside it seems like the sort of transparent well run process the faculty union insisted on. Anyone got comments or reports from other schools or departments?
One of the recommendations is a campus climate survey, along the lines of the one Professor Freyd wants to do at UO. As Steve Duin reports in the Oregonian, UO *really* does not want her to do that survey. Press release on the McCaskill survey, with link to full results here. Quoting:…