11/21/2013: After a competitive national search, with 4 finalists brought out for visits: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/whitten-named-uga-provost/. UO seems a bit behind the curve – rumor is that we may have some candidates out in January.
UO Matters
11/20/2013: Hannah Hoffman of the Statesman Journal has a report on the latest goings on with the legislature and the UO Board of Trustees appointments, here. For more perspective, read Mrs. Gerlinger’s prescient 1939 letter, here.11/15/2013: OUS Board celebrates “Remember the Hat” day They’re a little early this year, and boy…
11/19/2013: Wait, there *is* something to add: The OIT “Dawn of the Dead Week” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10CmiTjXMDU&sns=em That’s how you recruit good students – tell them they can hang out with other good students who are working hard and loving it. A better idea than taking your administrators on a bowl game…
11/19/2013: That would be SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi, asking for guidance from the CA State Chancellor’s office. InsideHigherEd.com reports from their Senate: “A series of conflicts over the last year has highlighted issues related to communication and transparency, has opened serious rifts in our shared sense of community, and has contributed…
11/18/2013: Last summer the Oregonian’s Betsy Hammond wrote a revealing story on the shenanigans of UO VP Robin Holmes and the use of student money to manipulate the student vote on the EMU expansion: University of Oregon leaders admit they made a tactical error when they hired a top political…
11/18/2013: An great story by Jennifer Hernandez in the Oregon Daily Emerald, about the new recruitment director for UO’s College Republicans.
11/18/2013: Insidehighered has a report on the brief tenure of Robert Sternberg as President at Wyoming. Hired by the board to make change, he did, stepping on a lot of toes in the process, to the point he could no longer run the place. This is apparently not uncommon for…
11/17/13 update: A commenter points out that I was misinformed. UO just played the U of Utah, not USU. Whatever. I’ve added the UU data.
11/15/13: That would be Robert Sternberg, at the University of Wyoming. Insidehighered.com has the report. He had support from the Caspar newspaper (thanks, commenter): Sternberg argued that he’s gotten a bum rap for firing too many people too fast. He pointed to the fact that he has asked for two resignations:…
11/12/13: I recently received the “demand for retraction” below, from Thomas Herrmann, legal counsel to the UO Foundation, presumably writing on instruction from the Foundation’s Chairman Jon Anderson, a former marathon runner with longtime Nike connections, and the Foundation’s 2013 Chair-elect and committed athletics booster Stephen Holwerda. A bio-piece on Mr Holwerda…
11/15/2013: Comprehensive story in the RG, comparing UO and OSU, here: The plan is to grow the Corvallis campus to 28,000 students, up by about 75 students; increase enrollment at OSU’s Bend campus to 5,000 students, up from 936; grow the online student population to about 7,000 students; and increase the…
11/14/2013: An excellent piece of investigative journalism from UNC, here. Their university’s administrators were remarkably forthcoming about the costs of the outside investigations, and how much was paid by the athletics department and how much by the UNC Foundation. It took me years, and hundreds of dollars in public records…
Update: UO administration time-travels back to 2009, finalizes UO’s draft Academic Plan.For four years, the official copy of UO’s Academic Plan – ballyhooed today by President Gottfredson in the Senate – made clear it was just a draft: Now it’s suddenly been post-dated a day, and it’s final.Sporadic Senate live-blogging.…
11/11/2013: In the RG: “In a way, I have to say that the so-called arms race is understandable but it’s out of perspective,” he said. “I think Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, all the schools that are building more and more facilities, all of that is a little overboard in terms…
11/11/2013: Also see related docs: 2012, Randy Geller accuses Senate President and IAC chair of publishing “offensive and false” comments. 2008 DOJ opinion on Faculty Assembly powers 2009 Melinda Grier opinion on Open Meetings Law and Senate 1992 IAC charge from Senate UO Matters IAC and NCAA FAQ From: Randy Geller <[email protected]>…