Final update: Not until Hubin gives the Commentator the emails showing who gave Robin Holmes the go ahead to hire the RBI consultants and what their orders were.11/16/2012 6PM: The ODE now reports that the referendum passed with 54% of ~4,000 votes. The ends justify the means?11/16/2012: Ian Campbell of the ODE…
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Word from the LCNI is that the brain scanner is down until mid December because of a shortage of helium for the 3 Tesla super-cooled super-conducting electro-magnet. Donate your party balloons, children! 11/16/2012.
A group of faculty opposed to the faculty union have just started a blog at http://uounionforum.wordpress.com/: Who we are We are faculty concerned with the establishment of the UO Faculty Union. We are not affiliated with United Academics or with the Faculty Union Bargaining Team. Many of us have not joined…
Update 11/15/2012: Their accrediting agency is now investigating these courses. Are UO athletes using them or similar to pass the requirements for UO degrees? I’ll put the question to NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative Jim O’Fallon. 11/11/2012: Brad Wolverton at the Chronicle has the scoop on how athletes are gaming the NCAA’s…
11/15/2012. Some history by Sam Stites in the Emerald: The meeting consisted of executive athletic director for Nike liaison Jim Bartko, Coach Bellotti, UO donor and businessman Randy Pape, donor and eventual athletic director Pat Kilkenny and Nike chairman and UO alumnus Phil Knight. With open minds and open checkbooks, the…
11/15/2012: Research by economist (and UO PhD grad) Brad Curs, report by Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle: Participating in lower-tier bowls does little to drive enrollment but adds slightly to the bottom line, new research suggests, countering the notion that postseason football, outside of the highest-rated games, is a money…
Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has a story in Insidehighered.com about the potential implications for Title IX: “Nevertheless, our results do suggest that it may be a mistake to base Title IX implementation on the assumption that males and females have, or soon will have, generally equal sports interest.” The…
The RG reprints a Bloomberg report on the growing pushback from faculty, students, and parents angry at how universities are wasting their money: U.S. universities employed more than 230,000 administrators in 2009, up 60 percent from 1993, or 10 times the rate of growth of the tenured faculty, those with permanent…
Subjects from the UO experiment report: “I felt immensely powerless and almost naked …”. ” … I felt like half a person.” This torture got through UO human subjects review? Shocking. BTW, UO IRB is now saying that renewal of an existing protocol will take them almost 2 months. How much…
Sorry, that’s at Ohio State. Here at UO we are losing top science PI’s and our president is refusing to pay out a 3.5% raise that is already funded. At OSU the money will come in part from parking revenue, believe it or not. Here at UO the parking fees…
Update: After Randy didn’t reply to my requests for an explanation for the delay, I sent a public records petition to Lane County DA Alex Gardner. An hour later I got a response from Dave Hubin’s public records office, offering to sell me these invoices and contracts for $235. It…
Like most faculty I spend a lot of time advising students on how to get a good education at UO. I tell them every educated person needs a basic knowledge of evolution and at least two languages, three if you count BASH scripting. And really, how hard can Math 413 be?…
Faculty club update: Word down by the pool cabana is that there are another 700 international students – not counted in the official statistics on the grounds that they are not eligible to take regular UO classes until they pass sufficient AEI credits. We will get them soon though. Too…
Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, V. Joseph Hotz NBER Working Paper No. 18523Issued in November 2012 Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California’s public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of…