9/7/2011: #2 in a continuing series on OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner’s plans to rebuild Oregon’s higher education system: Sweet deal George. Must be nice. Many people in Oregon are not so lucky, and can’t count on their buddies on the OUS Board to spend other people’s money covering their bills:
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9/7/2011: From the Register Guard editorial page: Bottom of the heap: UO rates dead last in faculty salaries In a time of 12.1 percent unemployment, Oregonians may have a hard time mustering much sympathy for University of Oregon faculty members whose pay averages a mere $73,300 a year. But by…
9/7/2011: Seems like a good time to repost the data on UO faculty salaries produced by Sarah Douglas and Marie Vitulli for UO’s AAU chapter: Full professor salary was at 81% of peers, associates at 86%, assistants at 94%. My guess is that with the June 2011 raises full professors…
9/7/2011: WGU comes up a lot these days as a new model for higher education. Website here. Fully accredited, started by western states to provide 4 year online degrees. Mostly licensure fields, like teaching, nursing, accounting. Tuition is $2890 for a 6 month term. From their website: Your degree requirements…
9/7/2011: I don’t get it. First the two Diane Dietz stories, now this editorial. They repeat Di Saunder’s misinformation, put Bean’s quote in the worst possible context, and say nothing about the raises the OUS administrators took for themselves while they were forcing furloughs on the UO staff. Nothing on…
9/6/2011: This was billed as a major policy speech for his education plans. From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian: “The state does not run the schools. The state invests in schools,” Kitzhaber says. “As long as students are progressing and succeeding, why shouldn’t we let go of some of the…
9/15/2011 update: I asked Mr. Martin for the AA documents on this hire. After a very little back and forth, I got them. They give convincing reasons for the interim appointment. This is a big improvement from the way UO used to handle these things. And I made a comment…
9/6/2011: I’m no economist, but this is about as dumb as government policy gets: lay off teachers during a recession. Oh wait, it could get dumber: do the layoffs by seniority rather than merit. Let’s combine bad short run economic policy with bad long run educational outcomes. Bingo, that’s the…
Oregon has none. That’s according to the just released QS world ranking. Who knows what their methodology is, but I’m guessing football doesn’t get a lot of weight. Not a good sign for Oregon’s future economic growth. We know what Lariviere’s plan to address this problem is – what’s Pernsteiner’s?
9/2/2011: I’m sorry, but there’s no polite way to state that simple fact: More docs on Pernsteiner here. And more on order from OUS. We also pay his mortgage. And thanks to an anonymous commenter for explaining what’s really going on here: The fact is that the UO would like…
9/6/2011: I’ve got no ideas about the EmX vs “more buses everywhere” vs bikes vs electric nuclear-friendly cars debate. But who could oppose people posting signs protesting the EmX expansion, on their own property? The city of Eugene, of course. Mark Baker of the RG has a great story on…
9/6/2011: Here’s a new carefully done study on the effects of matching the races of instructors and students. By three NBER economists with data from a CA community college. As paraphrased by Scott Jaschik at Insidehighered.com: Among all nonwhite groups, the study found a gain of 2.9 percentage points in…
9/5/2011: Back in the day, that was about what I paid for tuition in real dollars, if you forget about that year in the ivy league, which I mostly have. This was not because college was cheap, it was because of heavy subsidies from the taxpayers. Those subsidies are gone…
9/5/2011: That’s one college football coach’s summary of his experiences: “Why did you recruit the guy who shot his roommate with a .22?” he begins. “Well, if I hadn’t, he would have been playing at Notre Dame, Texas or Texas A&M. He was the No. 1 defensive back in the…
9/5/2011: Seems like a good idea. Maybe Melinda Grier and Dave Frohnmayer will team up to bid for the contract: RFP Amendment Bidding closes Friday. Currently the DOJ handles litigation, but SB 242 will devolve that to OUS and the universities.