11/8/2011: More public records are coming out on the Kelly / Lyles deal, courtesy of Adam Jude of the RG. The Oregonian report notes the documents include: Email exchanges between Glazier, Ron Barker, Pac-12 associate commissioner for governance and enforcement; Steve Duffin, NCAA associate director of enforcement; Angie Cretors, NCAA…
UO Matters
11/8/2011: Faculty governance, that is. The United Academics faculty union organizers are apparently planning a card check election for December. They are having a roundtable discussion at the UO Senate meeting, Wed, 175 Knight Law School. Their slot is 4-5 PM. For me, the high point of the union campaign…
11/8/2011: The RG reports that Chancellor Pernsteiner will not appeal the state court decision allowing permit holders to carry concealed guns on campus. The Baron’s Den NRA courses for November are sure to fill up quickly, especially since the December classes have been canceled to allow some much needed range…
11/8/2011: In a week, Penn State has gone from being an example (the only example?) of a school that did college sports right – no scandals, high graduation rates, money raised for academics – to a sordid sex scandal involving a coach molesting a 10-year-old in the team’s shower room.…
11/8/2011: Dear Research Community: I am happy to announce that after a long search we have been successful in appointing a Sponsored Projects Contract Officer for the Office of Research Services and Administration (ORSA). Ms. Liz Denecke, who most recently served as the UO Public Records Officer, joined ORSA in…
11/8/2011: In June the OUS board refused to sign off on a bond sale to fund the EMU expansions until the students agreed to the plans – in no small part because the plan requires students to pay $100 a quarter in increased fees, but hadn’t been consulted about what…
11/6/2011: Ohio State has just borrowed big to fund an expansion of the academic side. Fascinating Oregonian column by David Sarasohn here on the very unusual 100 year bonds. (Yes, we know Frohnmayer sold $230 million in bonds for 2008, but that was for a basketball arena – although tuition…
11/5/2011: Details in this Steve Duin column in the Oregonian, coming out in print Sunday: The memo sets out the hoops the university jumps through to maintain the illusion (that athletics is self-supporting). The administration, for example, generously “allows” athletics to bank revenue from above-ground, off-street parking in designated lots…
11/4/2011: Last spring the faculty pushed for an honest and thorough review of the performance of our VP for Academic Affairs. Your voice got heard, and the administration is now searching for a replacement: Colleagues I am pleased to announce the internal posting to recruit the Senior Vice Provost for…
11/3/2011: I’m not exactly shocked to learn that the Jaqua Center glass box burns through electricity like a Norwegian Casino. But it is rather surprising to discover that the academic side of UO – meaning tuition money, mostly – pays the electric bill. The athletic department sticks us with a…
11/3/2011: I’m no psychology professor but Claude Steele is, and he has done some fascinating work on “stereotype threat”. The classic experiment is to tell women everyone knows women are bad at math, just before they take a math quiz. They do worse. It works in reverse too. Or so…
11/3/2011: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” RG editorial on the summer UO raises. Love that subhead. So, it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of the policy. And why should the RG go out on the limb for a UO administration that has…
11/2/2011: This is a weird one. I just got the email saying: The special election for the Promotion Tenure-Retention Appeals Committee (PTRAC) and the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC) has begun. To cast your vote, please log on to DuckWeb and click on the 2011 Faculty/Staff Election tab: https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin When…
11/2/2011: University Senate-sponsored session with President Lariviere Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Beall Concert Hall at the School of Music and Dance. Details here.
11/2/2011: Greg Bolt’s story 2 weeks ago in the RG gave the short version of the last 10 years of UO spending priorities: 26% more students, 9% more faculty, 36% more administrators. Today Bolt has a detailed story about the recent UO raises. The short version? The money for the…