3/5/2012: Jeffrey Martin of the Oregonian explains where Oregon is at in the NCAA infractions process. I love the way the NCAA infractions people dress up their efforts to preserve their hiring cartel and keep all the profits for the coaches and NCAA insiders with a bunch of legal terminology.…
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3/5/2012: That’s the latest from Bill Graves at the Oregonian, buried at end of his gun story. More as we get the docs – and there’s some scandalous stuff here. The board also voted to extend Pernsteiner’s contract through June 30, 2014, but is still negotiating terms. Pernsteiner, who has…
3/4/2012: Best of luck to Ms Alex-Assensoh, who was hired by CAS Dean Scott Coltrane and VP Robin Holmes after an open, reasonably transparent national search, and who has excellent credentials (PhD, law degree, research) and relevant experience at IU. I didn’t go to the interviews but on paper I…
3/2/2012: It’s about power. Nina Bernstein reported on this in the NYT back in November: On most of these campuses, law enforcement is the responsibility of sworn police officers who report to university authorities, not to the public. With full-fledged arrest powers, such campus police forces have enormous discretion in…
3/2/2012: That’s the rumor down at the faculty club anyway. Apparently the union organizers are not opposed: keeping them out of the bargaining unit reduces the denominator, and law professors – even adjuncts – are not likely to sign the union card. My recollection is that this split has happened…
3/2/2012: Dave Duerson was a former college and NFL football star, suffering from brain injuries induced by concussions and repeated MTBI on the field. He was in denial for years, but in 2011, age 50, he realized the brain damage was serious and irreversible and was making him a violent…
3/2/2012: Back of the envelope, each UO student pays $200-$500 per year in various subsidies for the jocks. In December the students voted 9 to 1 to start pressuring AD Rob Mullens to come clean about this, and fulfill longtime promises from past athletic directors to start making a contribution…
3/1/2012: That’s my guess. Last year Doug Tripp and Frances Dyke told the faculty – and the legislature – that campus police were going to save UO $73,000. And you wonder why Johnson Hall has negative credibility. Here are the last ten years of DPS spending, from the Financial Transparency…
3/1/2012: Pete Thamel has the NYT story. The university president and provost have stepped down. The coaches and AD’s who perpetrated the scandals have moved on, mostly to better jobs. The NCAA, FAR, IAC etc. never noticed anything wrong, such as players recruited despite not meeting admissions requirements, etc. It…
3/1/2012: A university with 90,000 mostly online students, part of the Maryland system, where the president has disappeared, and the faculty – none have tenure – are powerless to even ask why. Interesting Chronicle of Higher Ed story.
3/1/2012: Compare the December and January invoices from Mike Glazier, the NCAA insider lawyer that UO is paying to negotiate the NCAA football infractions settlement. Looks much more transparent when you do the redactions in white, instead of the traditional CIA black. But the bottom line is the same: the…
3/28/2012 Update: Link to Boston Globe story on Cotton here: 2/29/2012: Furloughs for faculty, big tuition raises for students, huge bonuses for administrators. At Howard University, from insidehighered.com. I like this quote: Raymond D. Cotton, a Washington lawyer who specializes in presidential contracts, said the incentives Howard offered — often…
2/29/2012: I’ve nodded at this gentleman many times as he walked his 13th street beat, but I never stopped to talk to him. Sweet story about his retirement, in the ODE by Branden Andersen: “I knew that I didn’t have enough compassion to be a minister, but I knew I…
2/28/2012: That’s the word from Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Please keep any comments peaceful: you never know what the other person is packing.