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…
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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.
8/20/2011: From Yahoo sports: Lyles, even while denying he intentionally guided Seastrunk to Eugene or funneled any money his way, admitted he helped Seastrunk’s grandmother become his legal guardian so she could sign his letter of intent to Oregon over his mother’s protests. The result: Seastrunk never appeared happy and…
8/20/2011: The NCAA vows to get tough on schools that try to use athletics money to help with the players’ basic needs for drugs and hookers, instead of spending it as a righteous God intended – on car payments for the Athletic Director, his assistants, and the coaches. Oh yeah – turns…
8/20/2011: They’ve apparently hired a $95,000 administrator, now they are looking for teachers – emphasis on Mandarin. As with the Ed school’s “Global Education Leadership Institute“, the rest of what’s up is a mystery, not even known to God.
9/19/2011: Be clear: this is not some lowly professor abusing the system. It’s a politically well connected administrator, using $4500 in state funds for his “working trip” to England and Paris. From Brent Walth in WWeek: “We concluded that there was not a valid conference to justify PSU’s reimbursement of…
8/18/2011: At some point, this transparency stuff starts to become a movement. First wikileaks, now this, on the Vatican’s website – in Latin, of course: The Oregonian has the sad explanation. Meanwhile the UO public records office still hasn’t figured out how to post the coaches’ contracts on dropbox. Drag and drop Liz, the…
8/18/2011: From the LAT: Under the plan, all faculty with good performance reviews will receive 3% raises this year, and nonacademic staff, who have received no increases since 2007, could be in line for larger raises. About 78,000 UC employees will be eligible under the plan, officials said. But nearly…
Update: More chatter that the Div 1 football teams will leave the NCAA. That will make a lot of money for some people. 8/18/2011: From Tim Dahlberg, in the RG, on the latest football scandal from Miami: Much of it allegedly happened under the watch of former Miami athletic director…
8/17/2011: They’ve posted the planning document here. SB 242 gives the Board authority to hire lawyers – not UO. Will Randy Geller have to reapply for his job? We can only hope. This time maybe they’ll check that resume a bit more closely and ask a few questions about compliance…
8/17/2011: Though I have heard rumors that UO is helping the football players rent apartments in the new buildings Pat Kilkenny put up next to Matt Court. From Yahoo Sports: