5/14/2012: From Mary Carmichael in the Boston Globe: A growing number of colleges seem to share his faith in the value of outsider presidents, PhD or no PhD. Twenty percent of college presidents in the United States now come from fields outside academia, a sharp increase from 13 percent just…
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5/14/2012: I thought the appointment for career NTTF Poli-Sci professor Ken DeBevoise had been resolved 18 months ago. But apparently not. Ken has some extraordinarily high achieving and devoted students, check the Keep Ken Coalition page here.
5/13/2012: The latest from UO’s “Twin Eden”, Gabon: From the Scottish Sun: Rich man, poor nation Poverty-stricken Gabon’s head of state Ali Bongo has asked a Glasgow recruitment agency to find him a live-in manservant for the mansion he shares with his wife. …PRESIDENT Ali Bongo is among the world’s…
5/14/2012: From Insidehighered.com on UT student support for president’s plan for tuition increases. The Chronicle suggest he may be fired by the board of regents. UO’s proposed increases are on this OUS docket, which presumably passed: In comparison to UO, the UT President apparently has a careful plan to use…
5/11/2012: As reported by April Baer, of OPB. League of Oregon Cities lobbyist Scott Winkels says agencies can’t afford transparency – for documents that might embarrass administrators and politicians. But many of the same agencies have plenty of state money for PR flacks that write fluff to make their top…
6/17/2012 update. Latest rumors say we will have ~25,200 students on campus next fall, that doctoral enrollment is flat at less than 1200 instead of the 1500 in the plan, and that there will be ~30 more tenure-track faculty, for a total of about 725 instead of the ~796 in…
5/102012: The Emerald editors ask the right questions about athletic department spending. But the sleaze won’t stop up until they go after the people who are benefiting from this and or enabling it, by name: Rob Mullens, Bob Berdahl, Lorraine Davis, Jamie Mofitt, Dave Hubin.
5/9/2012: President Rob Kyr and Interim President Bob Berdahl will speak with the legislative committee on this, 5/10/2012. Agenda and remarks here.
5/9/2012: Here’s the agenda for today’s Senate meeting, 3PM in the Knight Library. With Bob Berdahl we thought we were hiring a caretaker who’d lend a little gravitas to the search for Larivere’s replacement, keep Pernsteiner at bay, and maybe clean up a few of JH’s more obvious problems. I…
Update: Rebecca X gives a student viewpoint on this excess and extravagance, in the OC. 5/8/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a great expose of the administration’s Rose Bowl junket. How can 56 people spend $120,000 on airfare to LA? Believe what you want about Duck football attracting students…
5/8/2012: The Eugene city council has just voted to give UO $400,000 a year. How’s that? The upscale downtown Capstone apartments will get a $800,000 annual tax exemption from the city. These are aimed at wealthy out-of-state students, for whom UO competes regionally, nationally and internationally. Parents shop around, looking…
5/8/2012: 15% of Americans now get food stamps. According to this story in the Chronicle, the proportion of people with advanced degrees getting food stamps or other federal assistance has tripled since 2006 – to about 1.5%.
5/6/2012: There’s a report card on the right, the comments here are open for praise, criticism, and suggestions for improvement.
5/4/2012: From UO Journalism Professor Kyu Houm’s great first amendment twitter feed. The Yemen Times story on their brand new FOI law is here. And the email from Hubin explaining how he and Berdahl and Geller are trashing the UO rules is here.
5/4/2012: Back in 2007 President Frohnmayer and Charles Martinez were putting UO through their expensive and pointless “5 Year Diversity Action Plan” mess. Meanwhile a group of 22 other universities started an evidence based program to improve college success among low-income and minority students. Their results have started to come…