3/15/2013. More here, response from Dean Moffitt below, forwarded by anonymous. From: Oregon Law Dean Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:16 AM Subject: Statement from Oregon Law on Adjunct Instructor To: Faculty-Staff List , “[email protected]” , Adjunct Faculty Dear Oregon Law School Community, The University of Oregon School of…
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From the AAUO website, 3/14/2013: The faculty bargaining team wants to let you know that they are working hard on a response to the University Administration’s raise proposal. Although the University Administration originally gave us the deadline of March 12 to respond, we have been able to work with them…
The Ellsberg Paradox is an early and important anomaly involving risky decisions. It was an inspiration for what’s now known as behavioral economics. I taught it for years before I learned that the author was the same Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the NYT in 1971. It…
Synopsis: Most of the Senate meeting time was spent doing things the administration should have been doing, but hasn’t: Senate votes to do Interim Provost Jim Bean’s job for him one last time, and evaluate the performance of VPRI Kimberly Espy’s office. Report by May. Gottfredson approves of the measure,…
3/13/2013: From the Senate meeting, video soon. 3.5 Motion (Legislation): Senate-Administration Joint Review of the Office ofResearch & Innovation (RIGE); Bill Harbaugh, Professor (Economics) & UO Senator. Kyr: Supported by Pres Gottfredson. Harbaugh: “This committee could recommend to President Gottfredson that UO needs a new VP for Research.” Ed Kamenui: Chair…
3/21/2013: The faculty and students are drifting out of town. Now’s the time for JH to pull the crazy shit on us. Gottfredson’s response to the union raise proposal is due starting at 8AM in 122 Knight library. At 4:30 yesterday Bean called an emergency meeting of the ION PI’s,…
Someone’s having fun at the legislative session. Courtesy of Hannah Hoffman of the SJ. Never heard of this guy, but from the video, he’s an economist – and he’s got a sense of humor. What are the odds? 3/12/2013.
This is from the “Financial Transparency Tool” which you can access through duckweb, off the employee tab. If you drill down you’ll see that this growth over the past 5 years for “University Relations” – which amounts to $4 million a year in recurring costs over the 2008 level –…
3/11/2013: Director, Public Affairs & President’s Office Communications Public and Government AffairsCloses: Open until filled; application review begins April 2, 2013Salary: $60,000 to $85,000
3/10/13 update: RG story on a program by CS professor Kiki Prottsman. Here’s a link to her Thinkersmith.org program. … For Prottsman — a computer science professor at the University of Oregon, where she earned her master’s in the same discipline in 2011 — this early exposure to computer science and…
That’s an argument UO’s SAIL program has been making for 7 years now. The NYT reports it is gaining traction, because racial preferences have reduced SES diversity at elite colleges: In fact, race plays a role unlike almost any other factor. An African-American student with a similar application to a…
would he? NYT: Harvard secretly searched the e-mail accounts of several of its staff members last fall, looking for the source of news media leaks about its recent cheating scandal, but did not tell them about the searches for several months, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday. Under…
It seems possible. Now that’s muckraking. 3/9/13.
3/9/2013: You can’t make this shit up. Full announcement here. No details in the docket, of course.
3/8/2013: Back in 2009 the NCAA Committee on Infractions, which includes UO’s Faculty Athletics representative and former Knight law professor Jim O’Fallon, ruled that UConn had paid impermissible benefits to a basketball player, Nate Miles: NCAA enforcer Jim O’Fallon NCAA player Nate Miles INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Committee…