5/17/2013: It sure looks that way to me, and Lane County Registrar Cheryl Betschart has asked him for an explanation. You remember Pernsteiner, right? Last time I asked this question Pernsteiner had his lawyer, Bill Gary of HLGR, send this response to the registrar, claiming Pernsteiner intended to return to…
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5/17/3013 Update:The Ways and Means subcommittee meeting is scheduled for 8:30 AM, Salem, Thursday the 23rd. One last chance to let your legislators know how you feel about this power grab. 5/16/2013: Whoops, the video of President Kyr and Peter Keyes, and the resolution below, are from November 2011, at the…
5/16/2013: Dear colleagues: I invite you to a presentation by Dr. Dennis Galvan, who is a finalist for the position of Vice Provost for International Affairs. Dr. Galvan’s application materials (letter and cv) will be available for your review on Monday, May 20, at http://provost.uoregon.edu/content/vice-provost-international-affairs-finalists. He will give his public presentation…
5/16/2013: Presumably Randy Geller is getting competent legal advice somewhere. Frohnmayer wrote the original version. And if it’s HLGR it would help explain Rudnick’s bargaining table outbursts about keeping shared governance out of the contract. HLGR wrote the Nike tax relief bill that Kitzhaber pushed through in special session, so…
Insidehighered, here. 5/16/2013.
Tuesday’s fire in the Hamilton Complex’s Dunn Hall was an accident caused by mop heads catching on fire, investigators have confirmed. 5/15/2013.
5/14/2013: NYT discussion on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on racial preferences in college admissions, and income targeted alternatives, here.
5/14/2013: Sexual assaults by University of Montana football players lead the DOJ and DOE to require all universities to ban free speech about sex, as harassment. The DOJ report states: A former University student informed the University that she had not reported being assaulted when she was a student because…
5/13/2013: Anyone go to the Friday LSB faculty meeting about Songlines?5/2/2013: Updated with contract and invoices at bottom5/1/2013: From: “Tracy Bars” [email protected] To: “LCB Faculty” [email protected] “LCB Staff”, [email protected], “LCB OA’s” [email protected] Cc: “Chris Van Dyke” [email protected] Subject: May 10th LCB Faculty Staff Meeting Materials and Dean’s Message LCB Faculty…
Update: Berdahl appointed Dennis Galvan as interim VPIA last year. For a while it looked like Pres Gottfredson was going to give him the permanent job without a search, but to his credit he seems to be conducting a thorough search for other potential internal candidates, in accordance with Senate legislation: Dear…
From the ODE: University of Oregon Political Science Graduate Teaching Fellow Jack Edward McDowellwas taken into custody outside his home at approximately 3:22 a.m. Saturday, according to a press release sent by Eugene Police Department Sergeant Ron Tinseth. After being awoken by gunfire, four neighbors in the East 18th Avenue…
5/11/2013: We wouldn’t want to have the football players mingling with students at meals. Might give them the wrong idea about why they’re in college.
5/11/2013: Old press release boiler-plate: About the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a world-class teaching and research institution and Oregon’s flagship public university. The UO is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization made up of 62 of the leading public and private research institutions…
5/10/2013: I expected venality from Sharon Rudnick and her HLGR team, but like everyone else I’ve talked to I’ve been surprised by the incompetence. Maybe I shouldn’t have been though, given who wrote the foreword to “Negotiating for Dummies”: Yup, right at the bottom: David Frohnmayer, President of the University of…
Motion to have the UO athletic department pay the costs of athlete only tutoring and the Knight Arena land, passed 19 to 4 with 4 abstentions on 5/8/2013. President Gottfredson’s report to Senate due 7/8/2013. Payments by the Athletics Department for Academic Purposes Number: US12/13-20 Date of Notice: Wed, 02/13/2013 Legislation,…