2/19/2012: Columnist David Sarasohn: In the middle of the 1990s, when Oregon K-12 funding was a question of whether programs would be thrown overboard right away or the following year, Portland school superintendent Jack Bierwirth was asked why he had ever decided to come here. He explained that he’d been…
UO Matters
2/17/2012: I wish that UO’s CFO would give the faculty a honest talk about UO’s current spending and that our Provost would give a consult with the faculty about UO’s future budgeting priorities. But Jim Bean and Frances Dyke have never given us a clear data-based presentation of where they…
2/17/2012: UO needs to boost the number of grad students to stay in the AAU. But what disciplines? Not much point if they can’t get work in their field. Insidehighered reports on the job market for social science PhDs: … Using the same data (which may be incomplete as many…
2/16/2012: From the union organizer’s website here: How can faculty have a real voice in setting priorities? Thursday, February 16th4:00-5:30pm115 Lawrence Hear speakers address these critical areas: Howard Bunsis, a professor of accounting at Eastern Michigan University and Secretary-Treasurer of the AAUP Dr. Bunsis, an expert in the analysis of…
2/15/2012: It’s a popular choice, though the stopping power of the .45 caliber round may strike some students and faculty as overkill for on-campus use. Invoice here, looks like a nice discount for buying 10 with 3 clips magazines each. No ammo or training yet.
That would be at UC-Berkeley: The Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Intercollegiate Athletics Financial Sustainability has been asked to: develop an understanding of the recent and current financial and competitive state of the Intercollegiate Athletics program; assess alternative approaches to promptly putting the IA program on a financially sustainable course; assess…
2/15/2012: The Council for Aid to Education announced the results of its authoritative Voluntary Support of Education survey today. Chronicle story here. On average, giving to higher ed is up 8.2%. Giving to the UO Foundation is down from $121 million for the 2009-10 FY to $93 million for 2010-11…
2/14/2012: From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Penn State has now begun to post documents about the scandal and about university operations in general (budgets, contracts) at http://openness.psu.edu/ Meanwhile here at UO we still don’t know what the Kelly/Lyles scandal will cost – just that the jocks have convinced Randy Geller that…
2/13/2012: I mostly agree that college sports has become “The New Plantation” and that it often seems that rule #1 for the NCAA is that “no black person can make money off college football”. Certainly not someone like Willie Lyles! But it wasn’t always like that – once college sports…
2/13/2012: Memo from Lariviere to Dyke, Tripp. CC to Moffitt and Executive Leadership Team, here. 11/1/2011. No public notice on what is clearly a contentious issue. This is not trust-based community policing.
2/13/2012: Good story in the Chronicle on the NCAA / NYT blogging fight.
2/12/2012: At its heart the NCAA is a classic hiring cartel. College athletic departments agree among themselves to all pay the athletes a bare minimum, so that the bulk of the profits can be used for inflated salaries for the coaches, assistants, athletic directors, and of course the NCAA administrators.…
2/12/2012: Today’s lazy unfocused Oregonian editorial.
2/11/2012: My own HS transcript was a bimodal mix of A’s and D’s. So there’s something about the terms of this new scholarship that I really like. From Diane Dietz in the RG: Their scholarship is set up to help students — one from each high school in Eugene —…
2/11/2012: From Mitch Smith in Insidehighered.com: Arizona legislators are considering one bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards and another bill designed to protect conservative faculty members from discrimination in getting hired or tenured.