4/5/2011: President Lariviere’s UO Freedom legislation is off the table until the next session, and apparently many other education bills are also stuck in the House Ed committee. But the state Senate seems to be rolling right along with the bill to allow UO to convert DPS to an armed,…
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4/5/2011: The original decision generated a lot of bad press about China’s intentions regarding academic freedom at its Confucius Institutes. From Insidehighered.com: China Again Recognizes U. of Calgary China has restored the University of Calgary to the country’s list of accredited universities, a list that many Chinese students rely upon…
4/5/2011: From the Oregonian.
4/4/2011: I was fully prepared to make fun of the “Bias Response Team” and its event-packed awareness week, but the truth is it looks like the most diverse diversity event on campus yet, by far. See you in the Tunnel of Oppression. Glad to see the students are acting like…
4/4/2011: There are rumors that ORSA’s contract with Huron consulting is costing UO $250 an hour plus expenses for each of two consultants. Supposedly this includes round-trips back to their home base in Chicago on weekends. $100,000 a month by one account, or close to $1 million total so far.…
4/4/2011: Counting benefits, retirement. 2009-2010 data, obtained by the Chronicle of Higher Ed via what I am sure was many, many public records/FOIA requests and published last week: The four-year institutions shown here comprise (public) universities with total fall enrollments of at least 10,000 that are classified by the Carnegie…
4/3/2011: I don’t know why the RG has not been printing much about this scandal, or this one. You really need to read the Oregonian to keep up with how corrupt Oregon’s one party state government has become.
4/3/2011: Well at least someone around here is getting a raise. Must need it to match the extravagant style UO’s Development office administrators expect to become accustomed to in their new office palace. These people have no shame, spending donor money on this instead of research space, classrooms, faculty offices,…
4/1/2011: From Glenn May, in the Oregonian.
3/30/2011: My report from the diversity meeting today. This was billed as the session for faculty and staff. Turnout was low – there were about 8 search committee people, maybe 5 faculty, and about 40 staff. Make what you will of the disinterest on the part of the faculty. If…
3/30/2011: Bill Graves now has a story in the Oregonian. This email from Pres Lariviere is very positive news, though not for this session. Bummer. Lariviere’s letter to Kitzhaber is here, Kitzhaber’s reply is here. Kitzhaber’s bill would abolish OUS and the Chancellor’s office. Details here, page down and follow…
3/30/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story about a successful effort to encourage students from a small rural Oregon HS to go to college. The raw stats are pretty striking: An analysis by The Oregonian found the percentages of 2009 graduates who went on to one of…
3/29/2011: My understanding is that UO is currently insured under the state pool. What will happen under the OUS and the new partnership plans? Private insurance could get very expensive: Still, the liability question looms—for the lawyers, anyway. Boston University researchers have found CTE in the brain of a college…
3/29/2011: From Katie Thomas in the NY Times: … The most serious revelations involve nearly a dozen employees who told investigators that the chief executive and others working for the bowl encouraged them to make political contributions, then reimbursed them with phony bonus payments. Some said they then were pressured…
3/28/2011: UO’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity needs a new Vice President. It’s a big job, with a large budget and staff, control of a lot of dedicated funds, and in the right hands it has the potential for a lot of positive impact. The hiring committee was appointed…