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 will involve general hob-nobbing, but Thursday night we will have a special theme. Lee Rumbarger of the Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP) will deliver the Six-o-Clock…
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Point-counterpoint in the ODE here: Background: The Daily Emerald reported last week that the University of Oregon Law School will waive the LSAT requirement for UO undergraduates who have a 3.5 GPA upon graduating and scored in the 85th percentile of the ACT or SAT. Emerald opinion columnists weighed in…
Some buckets are more equal than others. From Carrington Powell in the Daily Emerald: The University of Oregon is updating the Matthew Knight Arena with new enhancements, such as a rebranding and new coach offices, nine years after its construction. … “It’s areas that haven’t been updated from a graphic…
1/22/2020: Burly ironworkers add thick, pulsing veins to Duck’s “University Tower” I thought the original egofice (left) was surprisingly small – some might even say under-endowed. Apparently someone with money was also underwhelmed, and the construction crew has been working double-shifts to add some girth, just in case anyone didn’t…
It’s hiring season, and prospective hires often have at least one of these two sometimes unspoken questions: How hard will it be to find a partner here? How hard will it be to find good child-care here? The answer to question 2 should be “easy”, but it’s not. The University…
The l*wsuit threat is resolved, and the show is on. Facebook event info here. 8pm, Saturday, February 1. Aasen-Hull Hall (RM 190) UO School of Music and Dance, 961 East 18th Ave. Eugene. Admission: free, BYOB.
Good news for the aging 1% of the population that cares about classical music, from Bob Keefer in the Eugene Weekly: … Two and a half years ago, OBF was in in chaos. The University of Oregon, which has run OBF since its beginning in 1970, had suddenly and without…
From Matthew Kish in the Portland Business Journal: An attorney for celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti on Wednesday said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Nike. The attorney, Howard Srebnick, made the claim in his opening statement in a criminal trial in which federal prosecutors allege Avenatti tried to extort Nike. The trial is…
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…
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: