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…
UO Matters
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…
6/3/2011: The administration started the year by ignoring student opposition to spending millions of their tuition money on armed, sworn police – while condescendingly telling them, and the faculty, that they had been consulted and informed, and that the proposal would actually save us $76,000 a year. ASUO President Amelie…
Bad news from the RG. UO’s final exams start Monday. Rumor has it desperate undergrads are already looting the Starbucks on 13th: OAKRIDGE — A Nevada man escaped injury this morning after his tractor-trailer rig overturned on Highway 58 east of Oakridge, state police officials said. The crash occurred when…
6/3/2011: There were three bills in the legislature for higher ed reform this year. Gov. Kitzhaber’s bills to replace OUS and Dr. Pernsteiner Mr. Pernsteiner with a new K-20 “Educational Investment Board”http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/SB909/http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/hb2962/ UO President Lariviere’s proposals to create a free and independent UO Board of Directors focused on improving UO’s…
6/3/2011: Becky Supiano in the Chronicle: To come up with a benchmark for affordability, the group used Npsas data to calculate how much of a family’s income would be required to pay the average cost of college after grant aid at colleges generally, and found that it was 27 percent…
in the wrong hands, it’s a weapon. If only the administration had armed, sworn officers on call this tragic episode could have been prevented. Thanks to Kenny Ocker of the ODE keep these coming, please! Disturbingly, the story has no reference to classical history:
6/2/2011: I’m hoping that this ODE story is not an entirely accurate description of what happened in our Arabic program. But at this point anything is plausible. Maybe they needed the money for another Associate VP of strategic planning and communication? Or to pay for our new VP for Diversity?…
6/2/2011: Interesting opinion piece, courtesy of a reader: Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it.
From a Lewis and Clark Law Prof’s Blog: A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Corruption in College Sports While the NCAA prepares its nuclear bomb for use against Ohio State in the wake of that school’s football scandal, I thought I’d propose a way to address the corrupting influence of…
6/2/2011: “Know the O” is the athletic department’s latest effort to pretend that they have some relationship to UO’s academic side. They are going to find a sponsor for 30 second spots on televised Ducks games, to highlight faculty research. Right in between the Bud Light commercials. 8 seconds for…
6/1/2011: From Rockne Andrew Roll in the ODE: One of those opponents was Rep. Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver), who thought more discussion was necessary before moving forward. Though Whisnant described himself as a public safety supporter, he thought the proposal was too expensive. “I thought it was an overkill,” Whisnant said.…