Word from the faculty club hot-tub is that Gottfredson has pulled Tim Gleason from the admin bargaining team and replaced him with Chip Kelly. I’ll be in 450 Lillis at 8 AM live blogging, just in case it’s true. Live Blog: Usual disclaimer applies.No Gleason! No Geller. Rudnick’s helper lawyer…
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In the RG: Three additional meetings are scheduled for today and Friday to address the university’s strategic equity and inclusion plan, and the restructuring of its equity office. The biggest part of Wednesday’s meeting involved audience members breaking into groups to answer questions intended to inform the equity plan. Next…
In the NYT, here. Those economists can argue about correlation/causation and the diff-in-diff. But I’ll just point out that the NYT doesn’t even bother to report the data for HS dropouts. Which would be an astonishing 40% of the students in the Springfield, Oregon school district, just three miles from UO. You can…
1/9/13 Update: Subject: counterproposalsDate: January 9, 2013 9:16:03 AM PSTTo: Tim Gleason , Doug Blandy Hi Tim and Doug, can you send me a copy of the administrative counter proposals? I’d like to add them to the info at https://uomatters.com/2012/12/facultyadministration-bargaining.html so that people can make comments. I’ll post their response.…
P 23 in the docket. Robin Holmes and RBI get the Winston Smith treatment: RBI:
And he keeps the two houses, maid service, croissants etc: I’m sure there’s plenty more scandal in these OUS board minutes. And they’ve got another meeting coming up on Friday. One agenda item? Approve Robin Holmes’s EMU renovations. Another? A new code of ethics. You can’t make this shit up. 1/9/2013
Friday at 12. Kitzhaber’s hire as education czar. He can’t be as bad as Pernsteiner, right?
1/7/2013: If you believe the WSJ on these things, de Kluyver’s decision to increase UO’s MBA tuition by 50% may not have been totally prescient. 9/4/2012: Diane Dietz of the RG has a comprehensive story on UO’s MBA programs, with many interesting quotes from LCB Dean Kees de Kluyver, here: They [University…
Internet chatter has it he’s a finalist for the president’s job at a midwestern engineering college. Div III, so it seems like a good outcome for all concerned. 1/7/13.
Room 450 Lillis. I plan to live-blog. 1/7/13.
RG editors call for UO to follow state law on search for new football coach: Turns out that promoting Helfrich without interviewing a qualified minority candidate — or at least making a good-faith attempt to find such a candidate — would violate Oregon law. Three years ago, the Oregon Legislature…
From the official organ of the Communist Party of China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-12/31/c_132074418.htm BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Former NBA player Marcus Williams has been tested positive for marijuana to record the first doping case in China’s professional basketball league, the national basketball governing body announced on Monday.Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) said in…
Update: Thompson has posted slightly less embarrassing video and still photos here, presumably in an attempt to document the junket if the IRS starts poking around. 1/3/13: This video is as sad as higher education can possibly get. This event was set up to justify bowl game junkets for our UO administrators, and…
The latest rumors, from the faculty club hookah room: UO is now on an unofficial AAU watch list for underperformance – not enough federal grants or grad students. Johnson Hall is going to try and hang our expulsion on the faculty, or the union, or the weather, but we all…