Rob Manning has the story on OPB here. While falling enrollment was the biggest problem, it appears Concordia’s homophobic financiers at The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod got mad about the university’s support for LGBTQ students, and suddenly cut their bond funding: Last August, dozens of prospective students and their parents toured the…
UO Matters
Unfortunately that would be $20M more in funding for the 2021 Track and Feld Championships, not for UO’s academic bucket. HB 2047 passed the Oregon House by one vote, and goes to the Senate tomorrow. OLIS link here. It seems Hans Bernard and Libby Batlan were being paid out of…
Schill cuts tuition to $0, angry students say he just wants to make it harder to organize for Bernie
OK, so that’s not exactly what went down at tonight’s Town Hall on the guaranteed tuition plan. The Emerald’s Ryan Nguyen has a more nuanced report here. As for the plan itself, it goes against what both the neoclassical *and* behavioral economic models predict about student enrollment decisions. So I’d…
From OLIS: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2020R1/Committees/HED/2020-02-24-13-00/Agenda
Ken Goe in the Oregonian has the short version and links to additional stories: A bill expected to provide enough state funding to honor Gov. Kate Brown’s pledge of $40 million for the 2021 World Outdoor Track & Field Championships squeaked through the Oregon House on Friday. The bill passed…
From President Schill: University of Oregon community members, I have received recommendations from the students, faculty, and staff who comprise the Tuition and Fee Advisory Board (TFAB) and am now ready to receive campus input on an innovative guaranteed tuition model for undergraduates that deserves serious consideration. This tuition plan…
The Daily Emerald’s Bruno Crolla has the story here. Meanwhile there appears to be no truth to the rumor that the Faculty Club’s Emergency Response Team will be giving out free drink coupons to anyone with a student ID tonight.
From the Fed. Overall, college continues to pay off*, even looking just at early career earnings: Of course labor market outcomes differ by major, sorted here by median wage mid-career: Major Unemployment Rate Underemployment Rate Median Wage Early Career Median Wage Mid-Career Share with Graduate Degree Pharmacy 3.7 28.7 40,000…
From the CAS blog here – which now allows comments!
School of Global Studies: We Want Your Input!
The College of Arts and Sciences is considering the creation of a School of Global Studies to be located within CAS and we want your input!
We believe that such a school could offer a new and exciting structure for organizing our many globally focused departments and programs. Organized around our linguistic and regional strengths, the School will bring together units and faculty across the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions to encourage pedagogical innovation, collaborative research and teaching, and publicly engaged learning.
Dean Marcilyn Burke will ask the Board of Trustees for a 7% increase – but it’s a shell game. She will keep the money for the law school’s own budget, including more fee remissions. So actual cost will barely change, and after scholarships law students will still pay only ~50%…
From Ryan Nguyen in the Emerald: The University of Oregon’s original estimate of how many of its graduate employees it failed to pay last October has doubled from 350 to 700 since the mistake was first announced, according to an internal university report. The report reviews the October 2019 incident in which…