between the students and the faculty union on tuition increases seems to have failed. 6/3/2013 update: Here’s the mic check video, from a helpful commenter. The guy in the middle is Frog, or maybe Bean, after an administrative sabbatical paid for with student tuition increases. Say, what is Bean going…
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6/3/2013; Word down at UO’s heavily mortgaged PK Park is that they can barely sell half the seats for an NCAA final 8 match. Total ticket revenue this year is about $385K, operating costs are $5.8M plus the coaches salaries. Rob Mullens can’t meet his promises to the academic side,…
6/3/2013: I’ve heard talk Tim is angling for a JH job, perhaps on the basis of his invaluable service on the administration’s bargaining team. Anyone heard anything?
“Call for Solidarity with the Protestors in Turkey In their Struggle to Defend Democracy Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM Location: In front of Knight Library. Tens of thousands of protestors in Turkey have suffered, and resisted, state authorized police brutality for the last 6 days. The events…
6/3/2013: Troy Brynelson has a fascinating look at how the free-market and UO student party people have responded to Eugene’s new social host ordinance: the students hire professional bouncers to keep their parties under control. Better than trying to quiet down your wild friends, and yourself. And cheaper than the…
6/3/2013: That would be at the University of Hawaii, quitting the NEA after 40 years because they didn’t get any bargaining help from the NEA and disagreed with their politics. The NEA is not exactly on a roll with faculty unions – at Montana State the tenured faculty recently voted to decertify…
6/3/2013: Like many profs, particularly those with kids, I got through grad school with federally subsidized student loans. Mine had a 1.25% interest rate, so I drew out the repayment as long as possible – 16 years, and paid it off 2 years ago. Those days are gone: rates are…
6/3/2013: Excellent story by Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle on life at the bottom of a winner-takes-all competition.
(The Dec and Jan spikes were apparently a bug in counting iphone hits.)
Plan C: Retire today. You have to drive to Salem and submit the paperwork at PERS by COB today. Rumor is that it will be a madhouse, get there early. Then submit your TRP plan retroactively like UO let Frohnmayer do (surely Doug Blandy will do the same for the…
There is a bug in blogger polls and it keeps dropping responses. I’m deleting all the polls. I’ll find a replacement program, since I think polls are fun.
5/30/2013: Big-time college sports really helps the cause of higher education, doesn’t it? Story here.
5/29/2013: From the Statesman-Journal.
Colleagues, We present, for your consideration, four outstanding finalists for the Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. Candidates will be on campus for the next two weeks beginning Monday, June 3. Campus visits are scheduled as follows: Candidate A, June 3 and 4 [Ed: Dave Kurpius, LSU] Candidate…
5/29/2013: Details on Julie Hermann here. UO searches here and here, also by Parker Executive Searches.