6/17/2011: Jeff Mapes reports progress with Kitzhaber’s K-16 reform bills, including SB909: SALEM — Oregon legislators broke a session-long logjam over education policy Friday by beginning to move several bills that could eventually have a big impact on students and their schools. The legislation includes Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposal to…
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6/17/2011: From Nigel Jaquiss at WWeek: “We have made mistakes in a small number of high profile cases,” Kroger said in a statement. “This week, I learned that in addition to these errors, Chief Counsel Riddell had deleted a large number of government e-mails under the mistaken belief that they…
6/17/2011: Full Oregonian editorial here: It’s possible that the rancor between the board and the president is already too deep to produce the kind of unified chorus that the system needs. But that would also be a loss. Lariviere, although leaving a trail of broken china in his wake, has…
6/17/11: From the Statesman Journal editors blog: – President Lariviere was absent for three of the five full State Board of Higher Education meetings during the 2010-11 fiscal year. – His new contract has not been written but these are the conditions read during the board’s meeting by telephone this…
6/17/2011: UO has an entire press office to report the fluff, so here at UO Matters we concentrate on the bad shit. I think those economists call this comparative advantage derived from idiosyncratic factor endowments. But, frankly, it’s getting harder to be so relentlessly negative. Our kleptomaniac President Emeritus Dave…
6/16/2011: at UO today! Luxury Suites Service Manager, Athletics RESPONSIBILITIES:The Luxury Suite Services Manager reports directly to the Director of Food and Hospitality Services and is responsible for managing the food and beverage service provided to luxury suite owners attending sporting or entertainment events. The Luxury Suite Services Manager works…
6/15/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere must become a team player, show up at board meetings and stop putting his university at odds with the state system if he wants to keep his job, says the State Board of Higher Education. … (UO…
6/15/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian uses words, to equal effect, on the UO armed police legislation: Yes, I think we can all agree that something drastic must be done to stop University of Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris from red-lining another rental car and further terrorizing the highways and byways…
6/15/2011: UO Matters’s foreign correspondents have been hard at work on the UO Gabon partnership. Turns out the US Ambassador Eric Benjaminson is a UO alum and football fan – pretty sure he’s not talking soccer. Finalement, c’est un réel plaisir de vous présenter le Dr. Dennis Galvan et John…
6/15/2011: What UO says about Gabon President Ali Bongo, via its press office: Gabon, with a population of 1.5 million, is one of the richest nations in its region after 50 years of coastal and offshore oil production. But its leaders acknowledge that oil will not last forever, and its…
6/14/2011: From the UO press office today: University of Oregon research on human physiology — particularly blood flow’s role in helping to maintain the stability of internal organs — is getting a boost from a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for the purchase of state-of-the-art monitoring equipment.…
6/14/2011: The UO administration blows another $1 million of other people’s money, with Floyd Prozanski’s blessing. The comments on this Oregonian story are pretty opposed.
6/14/2011: This NY Times piece on the work of Hugo Mercier is fascinating: For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path…
6/14/2011: 118 MPH in a Nissan Stanza? This athlete’s work for the Ducks would have earned him $500,000 or so last year, except that under NCAA rules smiling Chip Kelly and the other UO coaches got to keep it all. And the NCAA thinks the problem is that a UO…
6/14/2011 update: A commenter forwards us one UO connection: The US Ambassador to Gabon, Eric Benjaminson, is a UO history grad. 6/14/2011 update: Latest word is that the details of the donation are not set, and may be government funds – though apparently in Gabon there is no distinction between…