UO physicist Raghu Parthasarathy’s Eighteenth Elephant blog has a fascinating post about changes in what students are majoring in, here. It was motivated by this report about the decline in history majors, which included this remarkable figure: Obviously there have been huge shifts in what sorts of knowledge undergraduates demand. Raghu takes…
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Seems quite possible. The AP, here: HOTAN, China (AP) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside. Behind locked gates, men and women…
Or at least make an inflated estimate of the cost of finding them? Given that Reed is also the Board’s attorney, you’d think this would be a pretty easy public records request. UO’s federal accreditors require the Board of Trustees to conduct a self-study evaluation every two years: 2.A.8 The board…
Committee Chair Karen Ford says they aim to make a public report in April. That will presumably kick off a campus wide discussion on whether or not to – and if so how to – divide up CAS. Ford has said that she believes the Senate should vote on any…
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…
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…