Another year, another data point. 2/14/2013.
UO Matters
Highlights of the Feb Senate meeting:1) Gottfredson promised to either a) make Randy Geller write an opinion explaining why he believes FERPA precludes faculty from seeing data that might allow them to identify individual students, or b) finally give the IAC the data on academic performance of student athletes that…
Dear Colleagues, Our mission is built on the promise that broad access to the highest quality educational and research experiences will reap substantial economic and societal benefits for the entire state. The latest UO economic impact figures illustrate the magnitude of this university’s influence on our local, regional and state…
From Inside Higher Ed. Unfortunately the professor was teaching CS, not Econ. This appears to be history’s first recorded successful implementation of a strategy discussed in every economics class I’ve ever taken, or taught. Read it all, the students used a combination of social media and intimidation to enforce cooperation:…
I’m used to writing questions like this for a prelim exam, not seeing them in a newspaper. 2/11/13.
Main post with comments on the CNC problems is here. In the NYT today: At the University of Oregon, Michael Moffitt, the law school’s dean, has started clinics on nonprofit groups, environmental policy and probate mediation. He has also set up law courses for students in other parts of the…
So selfless UO administrators traveled to Arizona over winter break to help pack meals for the homeless there. Sam Stites has the story in the ODE. 2/11/13.
2/15/2013 Note: This post has a record number of comments, which have raised many issues in addition to those in the post. I want to apologize for the personal pain this post has caused for the instructors in the CNC program. As I’ve written in the comments, I think it…
I sort of like UO’s official “Around the O” blog. Lots of endearing pictures of our UO administrators, and the occasional informative post about campus events. But I hear complaints about the weekly spam they send to everyone, offering coffee cups and iPads for answering trivia questions. So a couple…
Kitzhaber wants to cap future COLA increases, which would improve the system’s balance sheet and allow immediate cuts in state contributions. Hannah Hoffman of the SJ has a great discussion of the reasons for the competing views on whether or not the cuts are legal. 2/8/2013.
Lots o’ data: http://ous.edu/factreport/factbook/2012 2/7/2012.
Prozanski is on it, RG has the story. 2/7/2013.
Update: Prof. Barbara Altmann accuses faculty union of supporting child pornography. Update #4 on the Admin blog, for today 2/7/2013: In perhaps the most extreme section, the Union proposed that “[t]he content of faculty profiles in social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) shall not be considered during any evaluation of a…
Sorry, I mean for an independent UO board. Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian. Meanwhile, Phil Knight’s Oregonians For Higher Education Excellence PAC is still sitting on its $450K. But why should the legislators sell their votes for that kind of money, when they can take the state for millions?…
Guess who was in on Nike tax bullying We’ll give you a hint: His annual PERS check is $252,327. And his partner Sharon Rudnick is negotiating for the administration with the union for $400 an hour. And UO won’t give up the invoices showing her total payments. See below for the bargaining…