Fall grades are due at noon. The modal view is that Gottfredson hasn’t shown enough participation to earn a grade. Otherwise it looks like a D+ average. As a freshman he gets another quarter to try and bring it up to a 2.0. Bean’s grades look like something we’d expect…
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Joe Nocera of the NYT on the corrupting influence of big-time college sports money. The occasion?: The annual IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, held last week in Midtown Manhattan, is the kind of meeting where football games are routinely described as “product,” television networks are “distribution channels,” and rooting for State U. is an…
12/10/2012: The draft legislation for independent university boards, LC 978, has been posted, here, by the House Higher Ed committee. That committee has no Eugene representatives. From what I can see the bill does not require the appointment of voting faculty representatives – even though the OUS board has two. There…
Not a joke: The tweets are secondary infractions – probably no penalty. Next Jim O’Fallon’s NCAA Infractions Committee will go after schools for giving their players textbooks. Oh, wait – he’s already done that. What a silly thing for a former Harvard Law fellow, noted first amendment scholar, and self-styled Frank…
They had skis and explosives and a destination … From the NYT, 12/9/2012.
By popular request. Submit your guesses for what’s behind UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s redactions to Sharon Rudnick’s most recent invoice. Prizes for the most and least accurate answers! (For more serious info on the petition to the Lane County DA for unredacted invoices, see here.) Any prize disputes to…
It’s the last day of finals week, I’m sitting here proctoring my last exam, and Johnson Hall is still trying to figure out how many faculty UO has. You’ll be shocked to hear that the numbers Interim Provost Bean presented to the Senate on Wed. are wrong: On FridayDec 7,…
Passenger to Conductor: “So, you got somebody up there watching the tracks as we go along?” Conductor: “Yup, the Engineer sits up there, keeping an eye on things.” Passenger: “So that’s his job, huh?” Conductor: “Yup. Well, that’s her job, actually.”
Posted on their website, here. Merit: In the bargaining process, we will be introducing an integrated and robust set of salary proposals for all faculty at the University of Oregon. These include multi-year efforts to systematically correct the salary differential with our AAU comparators, correct inversion and compression, create transparent…
12/5/2012 Update: Thanks to the UO Matters governmental affairs correspondent for the following unauthorized Senate minutes: Pres G reads from hand written notes again. He could not have shown more enthusiasm that the faculty union bargaining has started: “We are committed to the same things…. It is going very well……
Kelly Ardis reports in the RG that Duck fans are not snapping up Felony Bowl tickets at the expected pace. But presumably our administrators have their UO paid junkets all worked out – much easier when you are spending other people’s money. How many are going, and what excuse will they…
to study the problems in his Johnson Hall administration. About time. Ad posting here: The ideal candidates will have a demonstrated record of past scholarly success and experience in developing and applying quantitative approaches to the analysis of complex data sets, to address problems that are computationally challenging and data…
12/4/2012: It takes a heavy hand to enforce the NCAA’s rules against letting college football players get any of the fruits of their labor. UO’s Faculty Athletics Representative Jim O’Fallon sits on the NCAA Infractions Committee that wields the lash – and he was lucky he recused himself from this particular case. The…
Originally posted Dec 4th, 2012: All hail the glorious new five year plans! CAS Dean Scott Coltrane is ignoring Interim Provost Bean’s silly threats to start a blog to help him rewrite UO’s Academic Plan. If Bean ever does follow through on this, everyone will ignore it and Bean will…