8/26/2011: That’s the takeway from Insidehighered‘s report on faculty productivity steps pushed by Governor Perry. They also have short takes today on the College Board head’s fat salary and Utah canceling classes for a football game. And a story about the Youngstown faculty union calling off a strike. The UO…
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8/25/2011: Tickets here. Stefan Verbano of the RG explains the pros and cons. UO spokesperson Phil Weiler on the dispute: “Free speech is central to the academic mission of any university, and we want to let anyone on both sides of this issue to have their say,” Weiler said. Nice.…
8/25/2011: That’s the worst, from poll responses at right. I’m sure UO would never do that. Worse than losing to LSU? Barely.
8/25/2011: The NCAA infractions committee just blackballed some unlucky coach for not fessing up to having an illegal home cookout for his recruits. Ribs? You evil, evil man. Put down the spatula and step away from the grill slowly. Meanwhile, the committee completely missed the fact that the Fiesta Bowl…
8/25/2011: From an email sent to SEIU local 503 members: The central table agreement for 2011-2013 has been ratified by the DAS and OUS membership. With over 7300 ballots cast, 77% of voters approved the agreement. The elections committee, made up of volunteer retirees, conducted the ballot count. The…
8/24/2011: But UO won’t let them use the “O” on the tickets. So the contract requires we pay more to push lottery sales. Weird. From Rachel Bachman: “I guess we feel like we’ve already crossed the line a long time ago in accepting resources from the lottery,” OSU athletic director…
University of Oregon Athletics 2001-2004 Task Force: Full report here. The Task Force on Athletics was jointly appointed by President David Frohnmayer and Senate President Nathan Tublitz in December, 2001. Co-chairs were Margie Paris, Law, and Suzanne Clark, English (Chair 2003-2004). The membership represented key figures from both academic and…
8/23/2011: Sorry I missed this Janie Har story when it came out last week: Oregon Rep. Ben Cannon, D-Portland, is resigning from the Legislature to become Gov. John Kitzhaber’s top education adviser. Cannon, a Democrat now in his third term in the House, will replace Nancy Golden, a temporary hire…
8/23/2011: Senators Grassely and Baucus have been discussing this for years, Now Forbes argues that it doesn’t make sense to give athletic boosters a tax deduction to buy hookers for the “student athletes”. You can’t open a newspaper these days without some piece on how hopeless the NCAA has become…
8/23/2011: Apparently the average grade in upper level courses in UO’s College of Education is now 4.04. This generic problem at Ed schools is described and criticized in this paper (data shown is from Indiana): This paper documents a startling difference in the grading standards between education departments and other academic departments…
8/22/2011: From Dennis Thompson in the SJ: OUS workers ultimately are outraged by what they see as better raises, deals and perks being handed out to faculty and administrators while service staffers go without, Nisenfeld said. Perks like VP Burton’s PSU paid vacation to Europe? Or Chancellor Pernsteiner’s 2 houses,…
8/22/2011: This fool is still protesting his innocence. Steve Duin asks why he is not being prosecuted for theft: In a telling series of e-mails with Don Olcott, head of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education in London, Burton engages in the most blatant horse-trading to secure “an excuse to…
8/22/2011: If you don’t read Willamette Week, the Oregonian, or Bojack.org you probably haven’t been hearing about the recent corruption cases involving administrators from a variety of state agencies, PSU, and Portland City government. Here’s an article on the price the people who blow the whistle pay.
8/22/2011: I don’t like the apparent narrow focus on racial and ethnic diversity in this paper, in comparison to a more inclusive definition that includes first in family to go to college and SES. But I suspect the message extends. As reported by Insidehighered.com: A paper presented here Sunday at the…
8/20/2011: I’m no economist, and the devil is in the details, but on the surface Andy Stahl’s plan for promoting old growth forests *and* timber jobs looks pretty damn sensible.