6/9/2011: UO Matters has put up a few posts about the SOS Audit Division investigation of UO President Emeritus Dave Frohnmayer’s peculiar golden parachute contracts with OUS and UO. Now he’s threatening us with a defamation lawsuit and “a claim for punitive damages.” From: “Dave Frohnmayer” Date: June 8, 2011…
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6/10/2011: Who knows where this will go next, I’m dizzy. But Kitzhaber is looking better. Kim Melton of the Oregonian seems to be on top of the legislative education circus. Put her in your RSS. Meanwhile Stacia Kalinoski of KEZI reports on the Eugene 4J layoffs: “It feels like a…
6/10/2011: Kimberley Melton of the Oregonian reports the Oregon Education Association has come out against Kitzhaber’s SB909 proposal for a new board Run by Nancy Golden, to replace OUS and coordinate policy K-16. Nigel Jaquiss has a WWeek piece on the fight between Kitzhaber and the union, which is doing…
6/10/2011: Long story by David Moltz in Insidehighered on the various proposals under consideration.
6/9/2016: Those ingrates at Huron Higher Ed consultants have almost finished their $1.789 million consulting job, leaving behind this description of the UO administrators that hired them, and “The Oregon Way”: UO Matters is running its own competition for the best definition of “The Oregon Way”. Enter yours in the…
6/9/2011: Last July we wrote: While ORSA has been in complete disarray, the Human Subjects Protection office has been very well run. I hope they can find a worthy replacement for Juliana (Kyrk). Given what I’ve seen of other university’s IRB offices it won’t be easy. Rumor is that the…
6/8/2011: Rich Linton and Frances Dyke have now posted the phase II Huron report, here – a 143 page powerpoint. It doesn’t make them look like very good managers. President Lariviere has fired Linton from his VP for Research job, and has hired a search firm and posted an ad…
6/8/2011: The Faculty Lounges and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For by WSJ editor Naomi Schaefer Riley is currently getting a lot of attention. Insidehighered.com has a interesting summary and interview, by Dan Berrett. The discussion is pretty lively too. Q: The title and…
but instead Dave Frohnmayer went to OUS and took $10 million of our bonding authority to build a new alumni center, with fancy offices for the UO Foundation and convenient underground parking for their overpaid CEOs. The Foundation is still trying to raise the rest of the $29 million cost…
“They spent all the money on the Jacqua Center to kill baby ducks.”
6/7/2011: Stanley Fish – former professor, former administrator, seldom a very interesting columnist – revisits an old question in the NYT: If you’re a college or university teacher, whom do you work for? … Academics want to have it both ways, and sometimes do. They want, that is, to work…
6/7/2011: I’m not a big fan of defining diversity on those narrow grounds. But it you are, the UO faculty are not the problem, the UO administration is. If you look at page 29 of UO’s Affirmative Action Report, you will find that UO’s tenure track faculty is representative…
6/5/2011: UO student Ben DeJarnette adds some diversity of thought to his education – with a joint class with Oregon State Penitentiary inmates. From his Op-Ed in the RG: … As universities do somersaults to achieve diversity in their student bodies, the Inside-Out experience should force us to question what…
6/4/2011: From Lauren Fox in the RG. UO is #4 for alcohol violations, #3 for drugs. (2009 data). A UO student explains the drinking: “It’s really not that surprising,” said student Sean Roney, a junior. “UO is a great party school; we have good sports teams, and drinking is a…
6/4/2012: First I’d heard of this constructive idea, from KEZI: With plenty of parents worried about how furlough days will affect their child’s education, the University of Oregon is stepping up to help. A group of UO professors are volunteering to teach low-cost courses on days when local high schools…