6/28/2011: The Koch Foundation’s academic grants – which come with many strings – are in the news again, Dan Berrett has an excellent piece in Insidehighered.comhttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/06/28: It concludes with this: The best way to safeguard a university’s interests and commitment to academic freedom is to be clear about expectations up…
UO Matters
6/27/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story with some analysis. Saul Hubbard of the RG has some good quotes here. You can get a pdf of SB909 here, and of SB242 here. (In these pdf’s the bold parts are new law, the italic parts are deletions of…
6/27/2011: From the David Leonhart NYT piece (thanks to marginalrevolution.com). Presumably the increasing payoffs to college arise from the fact that the economic payoff to being able to explain the difference between correlation and causation to your boss peaks at age 50.
6/26/2011: The Oregon Daily Emerald editors shred President Lariviere’s proposal to give Jefferson HS students free tuition: Though we appreciate the effort and applaud the attempt to aid in Oregon’s ailing public education system, there are significant problems with the proposal and certain planks of it make for a sad…
but instead our administration is spending the tuition increase on the new UO Police force: John Hawley, Director of Administrative Services in the Department of Public Safety (DPS), wishes to announce an interim appointment within the Administrative Services unit of DPS. The Campus Policing Initiative has been passed by the…
5/25/2011: Kitzhaber signed the UO Police bill, SB405, Thursday. A letter to the editor in the RG raises a problem with the UO Police legislation that I hadn’t considered: Be wary of UO having its own police I have no official affiliation with the University of Oregon but I would…
6/24/2011: Lewis and Clark Law Professor on Dave Frohnmayer’s latest.
6/24/2011: That’s the drift from George Schroeder’s piece today in the RG. ESPN writes more. Well, at least they’re not using student tuition to pay the $2 million costs of the athlete only Jock Box tutoring. Oh wait, right. Well, at least they’re not siphoning off state lottery funds to…
6/24/1011 SB242, having passed the Senate a while ago, is now moving through the House. If you understand what is going on please leave a comment. 6/23/2011: The Oregonian reports the legislature has cut Chancellor Pernsteiner’s pay and benefits package by 11%. Just kidding, it’s for higher ed in general.…
6/23/2011: UO is in the process of hiring a new Diversity VP, though at this point Dean Coltrane’s search committee has not put out a position description and he will not respond to requests for a copy of the draft. President Lariviere has just sent out a letter explaining that…
6/22/2011: At worst, the UO athletic department slipped a player a bit of cash via a “street agent.” I’m no economist, but I think this is called “the free market.” The cover-up though, ouch. UO has had these public records requests for months. Incompetence? Really? Bob Clark of the RG…
6/22/2011: Thursday June 30th, noon. Announcement courtesy of the SEIU union folks. Here are a few bullet points on Dr. Mr. Pernsteiner: He was hired in 2004 by Neil Goldschmidt as an interim appointment, then made permanent after the molestation story broke and everyone was too busy to go through…
6/22/2011: Yes, there is a Journal of Neural Engineering. Started in 2004. I guess Science won’t publish stuff like this because at this point it’s just applied work?
6/20/2011: In the Oregonian, on the Willie Lyles $25,000 recruiting scandal and UO’s potential violation of the NCAA rule that only coaches are allowed to make money off of players. Includes links to records, released today. I like how the AD justified their $25,000 payment (a dollar under the amount…
6/20/2011: From Michelle Cole in the Oregonian: Monday is a big day for education policy in the Oregon Legislature. After months of public Education Committee tiffs and behind-the-scenes negotiations, the Joint Ways and Means Committee moved several bills on for floor votes. Many of the proposals would have a lasting…