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…
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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…
Today, Wednesday 2/12/2020, Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) Sorry, no live-blogging this time. Expect a lively discussion over the proposal to expand the Expedited Tenure Policy to Assoc Prof hires, (vote) and the Guidelines for Academic Administrator Hiring – which would write down some minimal practices for…
Hannah Kannik has the protest story in the ODE here: “We are out here plugging folks to show up to a community meeting at the end of this month,” Pishioneri said. “We’re also getting signatures not only to be added to our email list but also to be taken up…
This should be sobering news for those well-paid administrators who hope the rest of us will uncritically swallow their hype about the Knight Campus as an engine for economic development and good jobs. There’s no doubt it will pay off for some: But the long-run external net benefits are far…