An endowment to provide free tuition to most Johns Hopkins medical students and all costs for many, presumably in perpetuity. In the WSJ here.
UO Matters
The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (FORTHCOMING)
Abstract
Scientific evidence has documented that we are undergoing a mass extinction of species, caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to scarce evidence on damages from losing individual species. This paper studies the collapse of vultures in India, triggered by the expiry of a patent on a painkiller. Our results suggest the functional extinction of vultures—efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from the environment—increased human mortality by over 4% because of a large negative shock to sanitation. We quantify damages at $69.4 billion per year. These results suggest high returns to conserving keystone species such as vultures.
As of 10:20PM on 7/2, from https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination. Interestingly this is not affecting the odds of a Trump win (~60%).
Have Jamie Moffitt and Brian Fox found the money to pay the faculty like they pay JH administrators? Will the union demand $130K research and alcohol budgets for faculty too? How late will the administration team be this time? Show up and find out. From the faculty union: BargainingJoin us…
That would of course be Oregon State, for Assistant and Associate Profs. UO’s Fulls are still slightly ahead. The last time I looked, about 10 years ago, UO salaries were about 5% above OSU’s. Obviously the mix of disciplines is different, but I’d have expected UO’s shift away from liberal…
Faculty turnout was about 60 on zoom and another 60 in the room, plus some overflow in the hall. Pretty good, considering we’re a long way from ramping up the pressure. The Admin team showed up 15 minutes late then drug a 15-minute break out for 35 minutes. I’d expected…
He wouldn’t send me his contract but eventually Kevin Reed’s Public Records Office complied with the law and provided it: 2024-PRR-471 … …
To the Law Faculty, the UO President, and the General Counsel, posted by request of Professor Raban: On May 23, UO President Karl Scholz announced that the university has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with UO Palestine—a coalition of four student organizations that demonstrated on campus for almost a month. The agreement includes, among…
Pres Karl Scholz contract 2023
And if the President job doesn’t work out, he’s got a fall-back guarantee of a sweet job as an Econ Professor – with no responsibilities for the first year:
6/6/2024 – Still no documents:
Request:
Peace in the Middle East is so hard they give out Nobel peace prizes for participation. In comparison getting UO faculty pay back on the path to average just requires that President Scholz make the easy call to fire a few AVP’s and Ass Deans of this-and-that to cut administrative bloat back to its pre-covid level.
Here Math Prof Chris Sinclair explains to the UO Trustees why he thinks the faculty will strike if the Board and President Scholz continue to blow us off. Click the image for video:
It’s like when the road rash you got in that bike crash is mostly healed over but now you’ve got an itch you just gotta scratch, even though you know it’s gonna start bleeding again:
Reporter
In a conversation with the Daily Emerald, University of Oregon spokesperson Eric Howald confirmed that the university is considering a criminal investigation into pro-Palestine protesters interrupting UO President John Karl Scholz’ investiture ceremony at Matthew Knight Arena on May 30.
Protestors further vandalized campus property, which Howald said that UO is reviewing photo and video footage from this and the protestors’ actions at the ceremony. Howald confirmed that the school is using the documentation to pursue both criminal and academic charges against student protestors.
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Reporter Alicia Santiago has the well-researched report here, covering the successful discrimination lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd (Psychology), as well as new complaints by Patricia Lambert (PPPM) and Margaret Sereno (Psychology. The Emerald has also posted a convenient database of salaries here, from UO’s IR pdfs – which used to…
Strike Next Year? While we are making good progress on non-economic articles at the bargaining table, the administration has made only minor movements towards our salary needs. Soon we will send another message about the very real possibility of a strike next academic year. Many steps must be taken before…