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.…
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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,…
Summer time, so here’s a rerun. FWIW the FBI is now on it: 12/13/2015 update: Jeff Manning’s new report in the Oregonian, here, lays out what is known so far, and quotes the French Ministry of Justice: “The object is to determine the conditions under which the hosting decision was taken,”…
Worse schools for your kids, but more fees for Wall Street brokers and consultants who want PERS to fund its pension obligations with stock market investments, so they can get their cut. The RG editorial board regurgitates the latest PERS hysteria here, straight from the WSJ editorial page: For a…
8/8/2018 update: The Oregonian’s John Canzano has a weepy puff piece about the Bartko hire here. Apparently this is all about doing a solid for Phil and Penny Knight. They can’t get Nike to hire him? More on how much Bartko cost Fresno State’s academic side here: Fresno State president Joseph…
Contrarian advice for people starting a doctoral program and seeking a career in #academia: A thread I hope will scare and/or anger you (~20 tweets) — Elliot Berkman (@Psychologician) August 6, 2018
There will of course be fancy new offices for the CAS deans and the VPEI, but it appears the plan for using the building to bring some sense to UO’s advising efforts is finally taking shape: Director for College and Career Advising Apply now Job no: 522707 Work type: Officer of Administration…
OPB’s Anna Griffin has the story here: Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian has accused state legislative leaders of creating a hostile work environment in which reports of sexual harassment were ignored, underplayed or buried. In a complaint filed Wednesday with his own Bureau of Labor and Industries, Avakian says Senate President Peter…
When the 2012 Olympics came to London, the town’s graffiti artists took to the city’s walls to mock the corporate pomposity of it all. As the Guardian reported, London’s government did its best to eradicate these troubling works of artistic sarcasm, which was not hard to do in a country…
That’s the word from one of Ken Goe’s many anonymous sources, in the Oregonian here. So Howard Slusher and Jim Petsche have less than two years to get their thing erected. Thanks to an anonymous reader for the tip. PS – can someone tell me the dates for this extravaganza, so…