UO’s Bob Berdahl, from UO Matters 5/22/2012: Last September, after a long series of meetings and after input from the faculty, students, and the press, President Lariviere instituted a simple $200 fee waiver system for public records requests. It worked pretty well. Maybe too well. Yesterday, with no warning or…
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Lead author is Dennis Jenkins from UO’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History. NYT story here.
big time athletics enabled "Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events"
7/12/2012: From the NYT on the Freeh report on Penn State: “In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university – Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley – repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse,” the report said. Paterno “was an integral part of…
7/11/2012: North Carolina newspapers have obtained some heavily redacted documents from the recent NCAA Infractions Committee investigation of its various football misdeeds, along with the BSK law firm’s $60,000 in invoices. (Oregon reporters haven’t obtained any of these for the UO case since Bob Berdahl rescinded Lariviere’s public records policies.)…
Not sure why this took me so long to find. The San Francisco Chronicle, 2005: UC’S PAID LEAVES CALLED ‘BETRAYAL’ – REGENTS’ EDICT IGNORED – 3 top managers were given lucrative furloughs in violation of university policy: Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl received a 13 1/2-month leave at $315,600…
7/9/2012: From the WaPo: Traditional academic jobs are scarcer than ever. Once a primary career path, only 14 percent of those with a PhD in biology and the life sciences now land a coveted academic position within five years, according to a 2009 NSF survey. That figure has been steadily declining…
and another 7/6/2012 update: From: “Provost Office” Subject: Hello Again Date: July 6, 2012 2:14:06 PM PDT To: Reply-To: [email protected] Colleagues:I have just returned to the Provost’s Office after an eight month leave. I thank Lorraine Davis for doing a great job in the role of Acting Senior Vice President and Provost. She left…
7/5/2012: Somewhere around middle school I stopped following directions. Mostly that’s worked out pretty well for me, particularly when it comes to research. But sometimes it causes trouble – for example with the state health plan “Health Engagement Conversations.” Dennis Thompson of the SJ says we have until 7/15 to…
7/5/2012: According to his Op-Ed in the Salem Statesman Journal. FWIW, I heard many good things about the process from those involved, and I hope Gottfredson meets expectations. So, since this worked out so well, maybe Ford should try running a search for a new OUS Chancellor next? Open, closed, whatever.…
From InsideHighered.com: The University of Illinois announced Tuesday that it will pay $175,000 to Lisa Troyer to give up her tenured position in the psychology department at the Urbana-Champaign campus. A brief statement said that the university “has not initiated, and will not initiate, any disciplinary process.” Troyer moved to…
7/5/2012: At some point in the next few years the UO athletic department will announce plans for an expansion of Autzen stadium and Hayward field. We can expect that they will argue that sports has spillover economic benefits for Eugene. This is a dubious idea theoretically, since when people spend…
at Western Washington University. From the Seattle Times: In a harshly worded letter to Western President Bruce Shepard, the governor criticized the university’s decision to raise salaries 5.25 percent this school year and 4.25 percent each of the following two years in addition to boosting department-chair stipends 15 percent. The…
7/4/2012. Jefferson only had a page to work with. He must have thought this was important: To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. … He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole…
7/3/2012 update: I got interested in public records matters back in 2006, after Melinda Grier and AA Director Penny Daugherty tried to charge me $200 to see copies of UO’s Affirmative Action plans – documents which state clearly on the cover that they are to be made freely available on…