2/28/2012: Becky Metrick of the ODE writes on UO Police Chief Doug Tripp’s upcoming 16 week course at the Oregon Public Safety Academy in Salem: Tripp and Hansen, who have had no previous official police force experience, are required to go through the 16 weeks of training that any new…
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Figure and explanation sent to me by Architecture Professor Peter Keyes: My Conclusions from the Data: There is an undeniable inverse correlation between university names that begin with vowels and average school quality. (Presence of vowel correlates to lower ranking). Of course, causality is not indicated. Does low quality lead…
is not the same thing as transparency. New Greg Bolt story on athletic department budgeting, in the RG today, here. Story on Matt Court costs and wildly exaggerated revenue here. In defense of Jamie Moffitt, she did finally post a good chunk of financial info, here, but only after a…
2/24/2012: From Rob Moseley in the RG: An NCAA investigation suggests that the Oregon football team did not conform to NCAA regulations relating to recruiting over the last four years, according to documents released Friday by the university. A draft statement of “proposed findings of violations” submitted by the NCAA…
2/24/2012: Sent to me by an anonymous prof: Also see this, from UO’s AAUP website:
2/23/2012: I’ve had requests for Michael Raymer’s slides from the union forum. He sent them along, 4 pages, here, with this explanation: My Conclusions from the Data: There is an undeniable inverse correlation between tenure-track faculty (TTF) unionization and average school quality. (Presence of union correlates to lower ranking.) Of…
2/23/2012: That’s the title of the lead post by UO physics professor Stephen Hsu, in a NYT sponsored discussion of racial preferences in college admissions, prompted by the SCOTUS decision to revisit their constitutionality.
2/23/2012: according to the Oregonian. Two weeks ago they were very optimistic. The bill would mean Oregon would have a Chief Education Officer with authority over Pernsteiner and it would give the governor authority to fire control Pernsteiner. Pernsteiner fired Lariviere, and now he seems to be stopping Kitzhaber. Legislative…
2/22/2012: That’s the line I’ve been getting from UO administrators lately: UO Matters is a primary reason that there is so little trust between the faculty and the administration. If you have any thoughts on this, pro or con, please comment.
Update: ODE editorial here.OC post here. 2/22/2012: ODE story here. I like that quip about how much money Randy Geller is already making the students pay for Chip Kelly’s lawyer. Secret video of negotiations here.
2/21/2012: I caught the last half. The panel was well balanced pro and con. Maybe 100 faculty in the audience, notably pro. That’s all I’ve got to say. If you have more, the comments are open.
2/21/2012: Not what was expected: Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that two highly respected University of Oregon faculty members have been selected to oversee the institution’s extensive academic affairs portfolio. Doug Blandy has been appointed senior vice provost for academic affairs, and Barbara Altman will serve as vice…
2/20/2012: But it ain’t never gonna happen. Sam Stites has the story in the ODE.
2/20/2012: There’s a lot of misinformation about student-faculty ratios floating around. If you look at the number of students per tenure track faculty, you get this: All the data from UO institutional research. It’s ugly, so Jim Bean has been counting NTTFs, which makes us look much prettier. I’ve got…
2/20/2012: The figure and email below are from an anonymous correspondent. At UO there is a tiny correlation between a department’s average pay relative to their discipline and their research productivity relative to their discipline. You’d expect better ranking departments would be closer to AAU comparator pay. Nope, mostly it’s…