From OPB: Oregon’s current budget will be nearly untouched by the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and future budgets won’t be as hampered as initially thought, state economists announced Wednesday. Those conclusions, which state economist Mark McMullen told lawmakers were “somewhat shocking,” turn on their head assumptions about how…
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Jon Wilner is the best reporter covering the Pac-12’s shenanigans. He’s on twitter here. Today he’s got a report in the San Jose Mercury on how the Pac-12 got rapid antigen testing for Covid for players – but not for faculty and staff: “… The access to rapid-result Covid-19 antigen…
This report from John Canzano in the Oregonian gives the latest on how much money the presidents and chancellors who control the Pac-12 have thrown at Scott over the years. It’s outrageous. I expect that Pres Schill, the new Pac-12 leader, will soon crack down on this so that he…
It’s official. We’re #1 in the state, they’re #2, here:
We all know they’re going to restart their program to give their unpaid “student-athletes” brain damage so people like Rob Mullens and Mario Cristobal can continue to cash in. This is about whether or not they’ll do so soon enough to also infect their students, families, and thousands in their…
Update: Count the number of seconds between lighting and thunder and divide by 5 to get distance in miles. Live updates: Rain expected to suppress Oregon fires, could bring landslides, flooding and lightning to region OPB (112.5K Twitter followers | 417,345 unique visitors per month): Josh Roering, professor of earth sciences…
Diack in happier times, listening to UO Foundation head Paul Weinhold promise him the full faith and credit of UO’s $1B endowment, in exchange for a track meet: Today’s news from the BBC, here. Diack took money from Russian athletes to ignore their positive drug tests. His Treasurer was also…
9/16/2020, link here: 5/7/2020: Admins present Coronavirus Town Hall II, Now live and embedded: For an alternative view, read this blog, published by Melissa Graboyes, a UO professor and expert in public health.
The Nebraska Law Review, here. Always good to see a Johnson Hall administrator helping out with UO’s research metrics: Reed also told me, during a public meeting of the UO Senate Executive Committee regarding his efforts to restrict free speech by students protesting the university foundation’s (money losing) investments in…
Materials here – updated yesterday with rudimentary data on athletics and auxiliary unit budgets. I’m not sure I have the stomach to watch much of this, but I’ll try and check in now and then. Board Chair Lillis is having internet problems, as usual. Board of Trustees September 10, 2020…
A disturbing metric from page 173 of our Board of Trustees agenda, here. We have about 2,000 faculty. This means that, on average, it takes each of us 50 years to produce one idea.
Plague, fighting in the streets, the sky is burning, football players threatening to strike, staff layoffs, faculty and OA pay cuts, our contagious students are coming back en masse, and to top it off the quarterly meeting of UO’s Board of Trustees. The meeting materials are here – posted 2…
Sorry, I’m sure Virgil would have said this better. 7:40PM:
Info on Carol Stabile’s 2018 no-search no-consultation no-notice appointment as CAS Assoc Dean is here. She may well be an excellent choice and the CHC faculty may have been fully consulted and engaged in this new appointment. I don’t know, post a comment if you do. Updated with pay: This…