11/5/2012: The ODE reports on UO’s new draft policy for reporting sexual assaults. Story by Josephine Woolington, first in a series. The tradeoff? If you guarantee victim anonymity you will get more complete reporting, but also more false positives, and cases will be more difficult to prosecute. Ultimately, it would…
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Whoops, sorry, it’s AD Rob Mullens that’s doing the search, and it’s just for a new women’s soccer coach. It’s nice to see that performance and transparency matters somewhere at UO though. Mullens for Provost! He has even appointed a professor, Jennifer Reynolds from law, to the search committee. 11/4/2012.
11/4/2012: The NYT education magazine has an article about it, Steve Hsu has the link and a good take in his blog, here. Brandeis was famously started in part as a reaction to Ivy League discrimination against Jews – the “numerus clausus”. I wonder if there will be a similar market…
11/4/2012: Obviously there’s lots of competition between universities for students. Some of it is based on the consumption value of the “college experience” and some on the employment value of the degrees we issue them. There are some fairly attractive alternatives to the “college experience” – travel the world, be…
11/3/2012. Good story about UNC Chancellor (Chapel Hill campus president) Holden Thorp and the difficulties of managing a large research university/sports enterprise. UNC spends about 8 times more on research than sports. While at UO? More on this later.
President Gottfredson has passed the public records buck to Dave Hubin, who has passed it to a committee. It’s a mixed bag of appointees, mostly administrators, ranging from apathetic to obviously conflicted to excellent. None have recent experience making public records requests to UO. Their charge – or at least the…
11/1/2012: They’ve just posted an ad for a new McMorran house event manager, focusing on development. Nothing about scotch for the faculty. 10/23/2012. Me neither. Don’t take it personally, Gottfredson is obviously not interested in social networking with the UO faculty, and apparently has even laid off the staffer in charge…
11/1/2012: Former UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz has sent me a copy of this motion which he intends to introduce in the Senate in November, for debate in January: MOTION TITLE: Performance Review of Provost James C Bean Sponsor: N. Tublitz, Professor of Biology MOTION: The Senate requests President Gottfredson…
That would be Graham Spanier, former Penn State President, for perjury and obstruction of justice. Spanier had testified in the legislature in 2007 against transparency and public records access for Penn State – after he knew about Sandusky. What are the chances this will encourage UO President Gottfredson to start forcing…
11/1/2012: The US still has a comparative advantage in higher education. But if we keep going down this road it’s just going to be in football. From Insidehighered.com: Education officials from Taiwan traveled to California last week to recruit students, The Los Angeles Times reported. About 1,000 people — many…
Spellman college has just done it. Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has the story. 11/1/2012.
10/31/2012: Today’s message from our interim provost – presumably sent with Gottfredson’s blessing – represents some serious backtracking regarding Brad Shelton’s 2009 “New Budget Model”, of which Shelton wrote: What is RCM? In most modern American universities, authority is highly decentralized, but responsibility (specifically financial responsibility) is held centrally. This decoupling of authority…
The Daily Emerald reports their audit of UO public records requests finds significant problems with the UO General Counsel’s compliance with the law. But the president is denying anything is wrong: “If there were a persistent violator or you had the door slammed in your face, that would indicate training…
Last I heard was this story from John Canzano in July 2011. Lyles was working for $8 an hour in a Houston grocery store, and still trying to get the second $25,000 that he says Chip Kelly, currently earning $2,000 an hour, had promised him.
Update: See the comments for this correction, from Ms Emeldi’s lawyer, David Force, making clear that the Emeldi case is against UO, not against Prof Horner: There is not now and never has been a lawsuit by her against Dr. Horner. The sole defendant in the case is the University…