The tents are already going up in the quad. The bongos are loud enough to drown out the jackhammers on PLC. Their website is here. Oct. 27, 2011Dear Colleagues The University of Oregon has received word that leaders of the Occupy Eugene movement intend to relocate their encampment this afternoon…
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10/27/2011: UCLA. Kentucky. Purdue. Georgia Tech. Arizona.
about the NCAA? Here’s what Coach Chip Kelly says about the proposals to give athletes $2,000 out of the NCAA’s $788 million in new TV revenue: “Obviously there kids that come to college who are underprivileged and deserve the full cost of attendance but there are also kids who are…
with Lisa Peterson, a former colleague at Kentucky, appointing her to Rennee Baumgartner’s old job:
10/26/2011: An anonymous correspondent reports that VP Robin Holmes is closing the Office of Multicultural Academic Success and replacing it with something called CMAE, the Center for Multicultural Access and Excellence. They point readers toward uotruth.tumblr.com for more information and documents, and say that students, staff, and faculty are organizing…
10/26/2011: Reports are trickling out of LA that athletes have begun to rebel against the NCAA cartel. AP story here, Yahoo sports report here, WaPo story here says NCAA will ignore the players. National College Players Association report here: UCLA football player Jeff Locke, who circulated the petition among his…
10/25/2011: Word down at the faculty club is that Liz Denecke has moved, or perhaps been moved, from her position as UO Public Records Officer to a job at ORSA, managing contracts.
10/25/2011: Former UO journalism student Allie Grasgreen writes the best summary I’ve seen of the NCAA’s latest efforts to preserve its monopoly while claiming reform, for Insidehighered.com: From 2005 to 2009, athletics spending per athlete at Football Bowl Subdivision colleges grew by 50 percent, to $91,050 per individual, while academic…
10/24/2011: A bit more on the $2000 raise proposed for NCAA athletes, in the NYT story here: Personally, I can’t decide which quote is more offensive – Mark Emmert, who is probably pulling down $1.5 million as NCAA President, saying “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Well, you want…
10/24/2011: The AAUP/AFT faculty union organizers have a nice new website, complete with endorsements from faculty. The are having a NTTF luncheon Wednesday. They also address the pay leveling concern head on, here. Add comments to this post here. The old union website used to link to UO Matters posts…
10/24/2011: We reported a few weeks ago about how the UO administration is making the academic side pay half of the cost of hiring Michael Glazier, a.k.a. “The Cleaner“, the $330 an hour attorney and former NCAA insider brought in to clean up Chip Kelly’s mess. I’ve added his latest…
10/24/2011: From the Oregon Commentator. I say yes, it’s about time.
10/23/2011: From the Oregonian: The Oregon City School District has decided to reject a $2.54 million federal grant meant to reward top educators, partly because of philosophical concerns over performance-based pay. The UO administration is a sad example of what happens when you divorce pay from performance. Just compare Frances…
10/23/2011: An Op-Ed in the RG. DeJarnette is a journalism major, a scholarship athlete on the track team, and a member of UO’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. He argues there are some legitimate concerns, but also some intransigent stereotypes which he attempts to clear up: I recently witnessed two classmates roaring…
10/23/2011: Very interesting RG story by Greg Bolt, on UO’s role in Lane County employment: Employment at the UO has grown across the board, with increases seen in nearly every job category. The university has more teachers, professors, administrators, clerical staff, laborers and technicians today than it did before the…