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New AAEO Director Tracey Tsugawa disappears from AAEO website

Update: If anyone knows what’s really going on, please post a comment. Around the O has the official trust-destroying non-explanation from strategic communicator Tobin Klinger here. It’s all part of “Ensuring the University of Oregon has an inclusive and welcoming campus”: The University of Oregon is forming a new Office of Civil…

UO to cut down 23 trees for Hayward Field Folly – naming contest for phallus opens

The RG has the story here. More in the EW here, explaining that the city forester wants to ensure the replacements are more diverse than the current east-coast elite elm monoculture. No confirmation yet to rumors that the Faculty Advisory Committee will vote to name the new phallus “Slusher’s Schlong”,…

NOW: Senate to meet today at 3PM on IHP, teaching evaluations, diff tuition

Update: Teaching evaluation and improvement motion passes. Hannah Kanik has a report in the Emerald here. Senate website here. Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake Rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.   Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair [Today will be Chris’s last Senate meeting as…

UO Senate & administration among leaders in national effort to reform evaluation and improvement of teaching

When was the last time UO made in into the national higher ed press for something other than a sports scandal, a b.s. branding campaign, or because their general counsel wanted to look at a faculty member’s emails with reporters? The UO Senate votes on the reform proposal this Wednesday.…

Dean of Students retracts blunt statement about frat member’s death from alcohol

Reporters Michael Tobin and Francisca “Frankie” Benitez in the Emerald here. The paragraph from the original, unsigned statement: As devastating as this sudden passing is, it is important to point out that this tragedy is connected to an unauthorized tradition among many college students. Students from many institutions have a…

Senate Exec Coordinator Betina Lynn talks about surviving Thurston school shooting

In the RG here: …She feels “inspired” by the group of students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who have taken a lead role in the national discussion on school shootings and gun violence, and she hopes their efforts may help them deal with the aftereffects of…

UO Trustee Connie Ballmer in the NYT, on why she donated $20M to encourage students to go to college

From a David Leonhardt piece here: “You hear people say, ‘Well, a four-year degree isn’t needed,’ ” Connie Ballmer, the philanthropist and wife of the former Microsoft C.E.O. Steve Ballmer, recently told me. “But then if you turn to them and say, ‘What do you want for your child?’ they wouldn’t dream…

Dana Altman & Kevin Reed’s bête noire Kenny Jacoby wins Scripps Howard fellowship, will spend year reporting from DC

UO Daily Emerald reporter Kenny Jacoby’s work for the Daily Emerald and SI on various Duck sports scandals is documented here. In 2016, as reported in the Emerald, efforts by the Duck Athletic Department to limit student-athletes’ access to the press in potential violation of UO policies on academic freedom…

Shaun Harper: Institutional Considerations on Expression, Rights, and Race

Harper has done work on a variety of topics on race and higher education, including athletics. Scholar page here, more on talk here. This talk was organized by the English Dept’s Avinnash Tiwari. Shaun Harper – UO African American Workshop and Lecture Series Monday, May 14 Public Lecture: Institutional Considerations on Expression,…

Senate to meet Wed on learning, multicultural, teaching, diff tuition

SENATE MEETING AGENDA – MAY 9, 2018 DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake Rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.   Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair Update from Johnson Hall 3:20 P.M. Approval of Minutes, April 25, 2018 3:35 P.M.   Business Vote: US17/18-17: Learning Goals for Methods…