Back in in the day the land now occupied by the Jaqua Center for Student Athletes – or as the NYT calls it the Jock Box – was a parking lot, mostly used by OA’s in Oregon Hall. In 2010 or so UO gave the land to the Ducks, for…
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This was one of the small pro-transparency changes she agreed to make – only after the Governor’s office, the Senate, faculty union, and some legislators pushed back on the secrecy and lack of input regarding recent board appointments. She has also added website tab that gives some brief info about…
$384K for Law School Dean Burke, $734K for Pres Schill:
The market has spoken. $30 for a big-time wrestling seat vs $10 for Duck women’s basketball, and $16 for Dana Altman: And unlike Rob Mullens, WWE actually pays its athletes, and its taxes.
Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be open this week during the usual hours, with gatherings on Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00. Wednesday, we join Scots and Scot-o-philes around the world in the annual celebration of the birthday of revolutionary poet Robert Burns (b. 1759). Barbara Mossberg, poet…
Jack Forrest has the report in the Daily Emerald here: University of Oregon students with a 3.5 GPA upon graduation and an SAT or ACT score in the top 85th percentile will not be required to take the Law School Admissions Test to apply to the UO School of Law.…
2/9/2020: Claire McMorris, Government Relations Coordinator, Oregon State University, submits this statement from the PAC-12 sponsored student-athlete group. Unsurprisingly, they support the cartel that sponsors them (and whose lawyers presumably drafted it) and oppose even Courtney’s weak bill. 2/6/2020: UO’s Rob Mullens showed up to testify: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2020R1/Committees/SED/2020-02-06-13-00/SB1501/Details video soon 1/27/2020:…
But check the official UOM PLC webcam for near real-time info, updated quarterly:
Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College Cher Hsuehhsiang Li, Basit Zafar NBER Working Paper No. 26703 Issued in January 2020 NBER Program(s):Economics of Education Program, Labor Studies Program Using administrative data from a large 4-year public university, we show that male students are 18.6 percent…
The students won’t watch even at $0 a seat – but the Ducks are charging ASUO student government ~$300K anyway:
125 CHILES, Thursday 1/23/2020, 12-3PM. Open to the public
MMXX-I is here, -II here. My continuing series on Budget Buckets is here. If you don’t like my blog read the official Union tweets or Facebook.
MMXX-III Live-blog. Usual disclaimer: My opinion and interpretation of what the bargainers are saying, thinking, or should be saying or thinking. Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. Rumor has it the union proposals will include Research Support, Sabbaticals, and Hiring. I don’t know what the administration will do.
12:07: Disheveled Admin team strolls in late:
The Emerald has a brief story here. For a deeper dive Try this Christian Hill story in the RG from last year. Just $2.5M for consultants? Presumably this is just the start of what the city will pay: Eugene city officials expect to spend $14 million on the planned three-acre…
From UO physicist Raghu Parthasarathy’s always interesting Eighteenth Elephant blog: There are now no bookstores around the University of Oregon (UO) campus. Until recently, there were two. The two did not, however, go out of business — at least not in a straightforward way. One of the stores is the…
Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be open this week during the usual hours, with gatherings on Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00. Wednesday, we will feature the School of Architecture and Environment, the “placemakers” of the UO, with an inspiringly designed, solidly structured Six-o-Clock toast. If you’ve always…