10/29/13: In the Oregonian: I remember walking in from fall camp practice and talking to my teammates about how similar our lives were to the TV series Spartacus. We were slaves. We were paid enough to live, eat, and train… And nothing more. We went out on the field where…
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10/29/2013: Dear Colleagues, This week, nominees to the University of Oregon’s new Board of Trustees—the institutional governing board recently established by the Oregon Legislature—will visit our campus for an orientation workshop. It is one of many opportunities our new trustees will have to become broadly knowledgeable about the university and…
10/29/13: You thought it was a little petty for the UO administration to buy off the faculty union with $350 in goat money? The Cleveland State law school decided to give the union organizers there $666 raises. The union has filed a compliant: “In effect Dean Boise has called AAUP’s…
10/29/2013: That would be SMU, back in the free-market 1980’s: The NCAA cartel came down hard on them, since every dollar going to a player is a dollar that won’t go them, the athletic directors and coaches, and Faculty Athletics Representatives like UO’s Jim O’Fallon. But now the NCAA is…
10/29/2013: The UO Breakfast for Diversity Champions on October 31, 2013, will feature UO President Michael Gottfredson and Expert-in-Residence Dr. A.T. Miller, Associate Vice Provost, Cornell University. President Gottfredson will charge the university community in preparation for the next strategic planning process, … In the past UO has spent its diversity money on…
10/28/13: Intercollegiate Athletics Committee retreat: In the absence of formal minutes from the meeting, I’m posting a brief summary. The agenda for the retreat, held Tuesday 10/22, was set by IAC Chair Rob Illig (Law) as follows: 3:00 – 3:15 – IAC Chair Rob Illig leads introductions3:15 – 3:30 – Senate…
10/27/2013: The Chronicle has the details. The plan is to make more sports part of the entry price to a new top-level football division, thereby diverting the new media money to athletics before the academic side gets it and spends it on the universities’ academic mission.
10/25/2013: The NYT has the story.
10/24/2013: Duck PR flack Rob Moseley has the story – a pretty good one – with some insight into the effort it takes to turn an athletic scholarship into an actual education.
10/23/2013: Very sad. Duck football player Colt Lyerla was suspended from the team on Oct 5 for “violating team rules”, then he announced on Oct 6 he was leaving for personal reasons. Today he was arrested by Eugene police for cocaine possession. Did UO’s new random drug testing program detect his use? Did…
1930: Ed’s Coed – Pledge Rag Scene from beta collide. Trumpet by Brian McWhorter. 2013: Video from the ODE, by Allysa Veigel
10/23/13: Last December President Gottfredson gave then Interim Provost Bean the job of starting a blog, to to get faculty input into rewriting UO’s Academic Plan. It was a bad idea. Bean had botched the previous plan, which ended up in the dustbin of Johnson Hall, and his “5 big…
10/22/13: For more on ESPN and it’s influence on big-time college football, here’s a good NYT story. The PAC-12 deal with ESPN is worth $3 billion, through 2024. How much of that goes to UO’s academic side? Maybe a negative 6 million or so a year. Still no action on…
10/22/13: Short version: If you are a full professor in CAS and had a successful 6th year review between 2006 and 2013, your subsequent raise was considerably less than required by OUS – say $3,000 on average. Multiply that by the number of years since your review and we’re talking…
10/21/2013: President Gottfredson is at the fall AAU meeting now: Current Schedule SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. 2 years ago the AAU kicked out Nebraska, and Syracuse voluntarily left. See below. In March, UO told our…