UO Matters
As sang Woody Guthrie. And it seems the economic returns to higher education are so generalizable that they even hold for outlaws. Thanks to an anonymous reader for the link: Is there any return to education in criminal activities? This paper is one of the first to investigate whether education…
6/7/2019 update: Legislature to add ~$100M to PUSF, Gov Brown wants more
That’s the rumor today. According to Pres Schill’s proposal below, $120M would keep UO’s tuition increase below the 5% trigger for HECC review, and also save Duck AD Rob Mullens a couple hundred large to help pay for his new baseball coach.
5/20/2019 update: Update: Millions from staff and students, not a cent from Duck athletics or Law
President Schill has sent his tuition increase recommendations to the BOT, below. His proposal cuts TFAB’s support for low income students, keeps the LERC and museum cuts, and leaves athletic subsidies untouched. The TFAB’s proposal was for a progressive increase in financial aid as tuition increased. Pres Schill’s recommendation is for only $350K in new financial aid, and that only if the tuition increase goes above 5%, the level which triggers HECC review.
Meanwhile, the “temporary” budget funding for law school scholarships increases by $190K. Of the $44M in fee remissions President Schill mentions below, $7M or goes to UO’s ~410 law school students, for an average of $17,100 each, per year. (I don’t know how it’s split up). The other $37M is divided among UO’s 22,350 other students, for an average of $1,650.
While President Schill’s charge to the task force told them not to make a recommendation for or against breakup, they ignored this, and recommend against a breakup. He has accepted their advice, for now. Perhaps the new provost will try to restart this fight someday, but the report from Karen…
Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Bill Harbaugh Remarks: President Schill 3:29 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and May 22, 2019 3:30 PM Business / Reports: Vote on Other Curricular Matters included in the…
Presumably he’ll be sending Gottfredson an invoice for his billable hours. Full opinion here. The abstract: Thanks to an anonymous commenter for the tip.
The Oregonian’s Ken Goe reports here: … The Ducks had just one regular-season home meet in 2017 and two 2018, in part, because of delays in Hayward’s reconstruction timeline. There were no home meets this year. Next year is in question. The NCAA championships, held at Hayward from 2013-18, have…
6/3/2019 update: I think the most dysfunctional aspect of this secret search is that whoever gets the job of leader of UO’s academic side will not be able to make a plausible claim that they have a mandate from the faculty. The RG’s Jordyn Brown reports that UO will not…
6/7/2019 update:
Elizabeth Skowron (Psychology) is Senate President for the 19-20 AY. Elliot Berkman will be VP, and then Senate President for 20-21.
6/3/2019: Elliot Berkman (psych) only Senate VP candidate for Wed. election
I won’t be running again, and so far this is the only candidate statement posted on the Senate webpage here:
Berkman Candidate Statement
May 29, 2019
Reporting a potential violation of UO’s Academic Freedom Policy: Pres Schill’s response to an inquiry from the Senate President and Past President: From: Mike Schill <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Reporting a potential violation of UO’s Academic Freedom Policy Date: May 29, 2019 at 9:35:40 AM PDT To: Senate President <[email protected]>, Jayanth…
The Johnson Hall lobby has been the primo spot for sit-ins since Nam, Workers Rights, and Dana Altman’s players rape allegations. My favorite was the UO Divest campaign, where emotions ran so high the protestors refused the chocolate Pres Schill brought them. Then Kevin Reed had to ruin the good…
That is a trick question. No one could answer that question. The ’87 Caballero didn’t come with a vacuum distributor. It came with a computer controlled distributor. However, if you were to retrofit it with a vacuum advance distributor for $55 off ebay, the correct ignition timing would be 10…
Update: UO to start using 2-factor identification, someday. No word on whether they’re also going to make me change the duckweb password I’ve used for assigning grades and direct payroll deposit since 1995. Town Hall today at 1 in the Knight browsing room. Thanks to an anonymous reader for forwarding:…
Dean Adriene Lim of the UO Libraries will step down in July This message about the departure of Adriene Lim, dean of Libraries and Philip H. Knight Chair, was sent by Provost Banavar to faculty and staff in the UO Libraries. May 28, 2019 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to…
Reporter Zach Demars, here. The story mostly goes along with VPFA Jamie Moffitt’s view of the causes of the budget crisis and like our easily manipulated Board of Trustees, avoids discussing solutions such as cutting athletic subsidies, central administrative costs, or consulting projects such as the new faculty tracking software.…