A letter from Provost Banavar, here: The project, called Faculty Insights, will result in a sophisticated online system that enhances our ability to capture the wide range of research and creative activities that our faculty do. The primary purpose of the system will be to manage the faculty review process…
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Oregon’s new Public Records Advisory Council sent its first report to the Governor a few weeks ago. The report notes many problems with Oregon’s Public Records law and with the lack of compliance of public agencies. For example, The report then goes on to note that UO has recently made…
From https://provost.uoregon.edu/task-force-structure-college-arts-and-sciences Task force meeting schedule The first meeting of the task force will be on December 13 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. This meeting will be organizational in nature and is the time for task force members to meet each other, review the goals, and plan. It will be held in Friendly…
Here’s what the Duck student-athletes will get for playing in the Redbox Bowl on Dec 31, courtesy of the Sports Business Journal: Yeah I didn’t know what a Roku is either, but it’s $34 at Walmart. On the other hand their coach Mario Cristobal gets to top off his $2.5M…
That’s the position taken by Lara Emily Barzelon in this NYT op-ed: I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed regulations overhauling how colleges handle sexual assault, which may become law in January, are far from perfect. But there is a big…
12/4/2018: One of the trustees asked me about this, so I’m reposting it. 11/5/2018: At other big-time sports factories, the rate for athletes is just 3x higher than that for all students, all adjusting for numbers. While it’s pretty well established about 20% of college students are subject to sexual…
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 – 10:00 a.m. Board Meeting. https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/for_website_meeting_packet_-_full_bot_12.04.18.pdf 1. ASUO and University Senate Reports Food is good, teaching evals are bad. 2. President’s Report Here’s the latest info on UO enrollment (week 4 headcount). Despite the increase in freshman admits shown yesterday, this is bad news: 3. Resolutions from Committee…
2:00 p.m. Executive and Audit Committee https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_packet_-_eac_12.3.18_final.pdf 1. Enterprise Risk Management – Semi-Annual Report: Andre Le Duc, Associate VP and Chief Resilience Officer I’m not seeing anything here on how much UO is paying United Academics for insurance, what the terms are, or how much of the cost reflects our various sports…
Since the Board’s official website is an unhelpful mess, here are the times and agendas for the committee and board meetings Monday and Tuesday, along with a few excerpts and some commentary. All events in the Ford Alumni Center. Monday meetings start at 10:30, Tuesday at 10. I’ll try and…
From Daniel Libit’s excellent college sports muckraking blog, UNMFishBowl.com. THE NMFISHBOWL PODCAST: JOSHUA HUNT By Daniel Libit For 45 years, college basketball featured two famous arenas dubbed, “The Pit,” one in Albuquerque, the other in Eugene, Oregon. In 2010, the University of New Mexico renovated its version of The Pit, University…
DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to order 3:05 PM Introductory Remarks; Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:20 PM Presentation on Teaching Evaluation reform; Ginger Clark, USC Associate Professor of Clinical Education and former Academic Senate President 3:50 PM…
This Wed, 9-10 in the library browsing room, and 3:20-3:50 at the Senate in the EMU Crater Lake room. From Around the O: Ginger Clark, assistant vice provost for academic and faculty affairs at the University of Southern California, will discuss improving teaching evaluation methods during a campus appearance Nov.…
These are a bit out of control – just take a look at my cousin Jim’s: Every now and then the NCAA university presidents say they are going to try and do something about this. The NCAA then tells them that anti-trust law prevents them from conspiring to lower wages,…
CNN has the latest: Trump says troops on US border can use ‘lethal force’.
As measured by the willingness to pay of the marginal spectator. You can buy a ticket to today’s civil war football game for $18. For comparison, Oregonians are willing to pay $140 to hear Robert Cray play the blues, $130 to see So You Think You Can Dance, and $50…