The Senate Ad Hoc Freedom Committee, chaired by Michael Dreiling (Sociology prof and faculty union president) has now met several times with President Gottfredson and his advisers. The Committee has posted its draft Academic Freedom policy on the Senate website, here, along with an explanatory memo. (Full disclosure: I am part…
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Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian. 40th out of 50 states, by the most optimistic measure. 50th out of 50 by another. What can a UO professor do to help fix this? Organize a summer UO SAIL camp for your department, to help low SES Oregon students learn…
From http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/dino-discovery:
PSU story here: The Faculty Senate also passed a resolution Monday demanding that the university provide faculty with a copy of the all-funds budget, which would include detailed line items. The motion passed 48 to 0 vote, with four abstentions, says Bob Liebman, presiding officer of the Senate. Their union is…
Dear Colleagues, Welcome back to campus. I hope you had an enjoyable and restful holiday break. The year 2013 was a remarkable one for our university. It was a year bracketed by the celebration of two bowl-game victories; a year of historic changes in our governance structure accompanied by steadfast…
That would be at UNC, part of what will likely be a long series of revelations: On three occasions, the records show two athlete support program counselors offered football tickets and food to Nyang’oro and his family. In one, Reynolds told Nyang’oro he would be “guest coaching,” which meant that…
US News has come with a new ranking scheme, and we’re #17. Betsy Hammond has a slightly skeptical report in the Oregonian. And sure enough, if you go to US News you get their definition of efficient: U.S. News has analyzed efficiency for a second time as both public and…
From a paper presented at the American Economic Association meetings last week: Comparing four cohorts of economics Ph.D.s by year graduated (from 1997 through 2011), the study found that while a majority of those who are employed as economists still enter academe, that share is going down. And while salaries…
That was in 2010, from their report to the Senate on the proposal to give UO an independent board: http://senate.uoregon.edu/files/SBCNewPartRep20101109.pdf 3) Transparency and accountability. If the UO achieves a new degree of autonomy from the OUS and the Oregon Legislature, we are concerned that the UO be held to high…
Job ad here. No word on whether or not Gottfredson and Coltrane will give the retiring Deb Carver, currently paid $191K, a Tim Gleasonesque or Jim Beanesque golden parachute deal.
It looks like the OUS Board is finally going to decide what to do with Tree Tops. By condemn they mean seize it under eminent domain, and presumably pay the heirs the market value, which according to Zillow is $1.4M. The full docket for the board’s 1/10/2013 meeting, which includes…
That was at UNC. What about UO? The NYT has the UNC story: One of dozens of courses in the department that officials say were taught incompletely or not at all, AFAM 280 is the focus of a criminal indictment against Mr. Nyang’oro that was issued last month. Eighteen of…
"Around the O" spam costs ~$107,000. Gottfredson’s calendar costs $103. 12/31/2013: UO Matters more popular than Around the O for 2013 Here’s a little hint for former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, now getting $218,524 a year to advise UO on “academic messaging”. While UO’s official “Around the O” blog…
The RG names names. The NYT provides background. In other economic news, the Oregon DOJ has decided to crack down on vital supplies for Oregon’s thriving blogging and computer programming startups.
Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal has posted the contracts between big-time college sports departments and their apparel suppliers. The Ducks get $600K cash (all of which seems to go to the coaches), $2.2M for apparel and team equipment (works out to $5000 per player), and a $185K “discretionary…