Thanks to a helpful reader for the link. A snippet: These last few years have been tough for higher education. Enrollment is down year after year, state funding increases have stalled even as costs skyrocket, and most people don’t have much confidence overall in American colleges and universities. The standard explanation within academia for these…
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A helpful reader notes this opinion piece from PNAS, asking if Knight Campus is a potential example of it: Opinion: Expansion fever and soft money plague the biomedical research enterprise, Henry R. Bourne Academic biomedical science has had both a long boom in its funding and a subsequent scary bust. From…
8/24/2018 update: Dean of Libraries Adriene Lim has issued a thoughtful statement here. Worth reading it all, here’s a snippet: … On a personal note, I share this recollection of my days as a new librarian at Wayne State University in Detroit. I was involved in producing a major exhibit on…
The most recently available plan is here. The data is from 2016. Under federal regulations UO must prepare these annually. The new plan, explaining how UO is complying with federal AA law and giving the latest slice and dice of UO’s employees by gender and race, was supposed to be…
Just kidding, they don’t care about that kind of diversity. The Office of Equity and Inclusion has spent millions encouraging UO to hire faculty who look different but think the same. Apparently they’ve been very effective. Back in 2006 I matched the list of UO tenure track faculty with the…
August 17, 2018 Dear University of Oregon community members, I write today to let you know that W. Andrew Marcus, Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences, has notified me that he intends to step down as dean at the end of the calendar year. The College of Arts and Sciences…
Nothing on Kyle Henley’s expensive Around the O, and if you check Libby Batlan and Hans Bernard’s UO’Government Relations website you just get a bunch of Duck pictures. But OSU’s Jock Mills’s very transparent Government Relations Office at Oregon State has the information on their excellent blog here. On the…
My post on the filing of this lawsuit back in March 2017 is at “Nevertheless she persisted“, with a link to this RegisterGuard report from Jack Moran: Psychology professor sues University of Oregon, says she’s paid ‘substantially less’ than male colleagues The University of Oregon is being sued by a…
You’ll be shocked to hear that politics were involved. Jeff Manning has the story on OSU’s new School of Forestry building in the Oregonian here: … The Peavy problem comes after years of efforts by state officials to promote a technology they view as an economic engine for rural Oregon.…
The docket is here. It started August 2014, with this: DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT GROUP, INC., an Oregon corporation, PLAINTIFF, v. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, a special governmental body as defined by ORS 174.117(1)(i); MIA TUAN, individually and in her official capacity; EDWARD J. KAME’ENUI, individually and in his official capacity; FRANCIS J.…
Of course. Around the O has the news here.
That would be Vanderbilt University. Rick Seltzer in InsideHigherEd: Long-running tensions between athletics and academics are on display once again at Vanderbilt University, with charges surfacing that the athletics side is being prevented from raising money from some donors courted by university fund-raisers. Blocking certain donors is undercutting efforts to…
The WSJ’s editorial board is upset. Very upset. So upset they’ve decided free speech is coercion: Big spending paid off for Big Labor on Tuesday as Missouri voters rejected right-to-work legislation by an overwhelming 2 to 1. Compulsory dues will help offset the unions’ $27 million investment in political coercion.…
Sometimes I wonder if politicians can really be trusted. Michael Tobin has the answer in the Eugene Weekly here.
But not to the public – just to the university. Brad Schmidt has the story in the Oregonian: The NCAA approved a new rule Wednesday that decodes the financial influence of shoe companies in collegiate sports, eliminating a glaring shortcoming in disclosure requirements highlighted this spring by The Oregonian/OregonLive. That change,…