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.
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Updated 2/10/2012: Becky Metrick of the ODE has the scoop: The guns, which are being used solely for training purposes, were ordered back in November after Lariviere signed a directive that authorized the creation of an official police force. “Part of that document required DPS to acquire firearms for the…
2/9/2012: From HMHB “We have moved from a society in the 1950s and 1960s, in which race was more consequential than family income, to one today in which family income appears more determinative of educational success than race,” said Sean F. Reardon, a Stanford University sociologist. Professor Reardon is the…
Updated: Comprehensive 2011 report on international students at UO available here. Thanks, reader. 2/9/2012: This year UO will have 2017 international students. They pay $27,853 each in regular session tuition and fees, plus say another $20,000 for housing, travel, summer, etc. Some are GTF’s, so let’s round both numbers down…
2/8/2012: That’s the word from the legislative session. Saul Hubbard in the RG. Looks like the study group will *not* include OUS or UO representation.
2/8/2012: Excellent story in the Chronicle on the Delta Cost Project on higher education, and their influence in the Obama administration and Congress. I started this blog back in 2009, after the furlough town hall where the administration tried to convince the faculty to take voluntary pay cuts. (They took…
2/8/2012: Berdahl’s handout from the city club debate. UO gets half as much per “fundable student” (which apparently means in-state student) as OSU. This does not adjust for the fact their students are in more expensive programs, OSU has extension responsibilities. We do not seem to be giving huge subsidies…
CAMPUS FORUMS: PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH Wednesday, February 8, 2012 *3 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom Hosted by the University Senate All members of the university community and public are welcome and encouraged to participate. ROBERT BERDAHL, Interim University President will address the university community regarding the presidential search and other…
2/6/2012: From the Guardian: In an unprecedented move, three serving African leaders and their families are under investigation in Paris over whether they embezzled state funds to acquire vast assets in France including bank accounts, Riviera villas and fleets of luxury cars. The clan of Gabon‘s late leader Omar Bongo…
2/6/2012: Scott Jaschik in Insidehighered.com: The resolution pushing for disaffiliation set out a number of criticisms of the AAUP, saying that it had “not addressed the concerns of our professionals,” had “failed to coordinate government relations” efforts, had failed to always recognize UUP’s status in collective bargaining at SUNY, had…
2/6/2012: Greg Bolt tackles the EMU expansion in the RG and why the students don’t want what Robin Holmes wants. Follow the EMU tag below for links to the many other articles on this, there are two sides to this story and I think the RG is giving the administration…
2/4/2012: This paen to the Oregon Commentator was Dave Frohnmayer at his best: Picking up a new issue of the Commentator is like acknowledging an unwelcome addictive behavior: It is done furtively, and with a self-loathing shudder. Once more, one can read the juvenile potty mouthed-rants of frustrated student politicos.…
2/3/2012: That’s the word from down at the union hall. He’s told Pernsteiner to appoint UO SEIU local President Gary Malone to the UO president’s search committee. Dr. Pernsteiner blamed his staff for the “mistake” and will jump right on it. N=22. 24 if you count P and F.
<p>th</p> The handout Pres Berdahl discusses is available here, thanks to a helpful reader.
FEMA heads to Lane County; Committee to select next UO President named. News roundup headline from the Oregonian. Up there on the 10 ten headline list with “Starving birds devour parachutist”.