Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Yingquan Song, Qu Tang, Peng Zhang NBER Working Paper No. 24821. Issued in July 2018 NBER Program(s):Children, Development Economics, Environment and Energy Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics We provide the first nation-wide…
UO Matters
While our General Counsel’s Public Records Office is still stonewalling requests for the Hayward Field lease agreement between UO and Phit LLC, today Duck spokesperson Tobin Klinger told the RG that UO is no longer in control: … The privately funded rebuild of the stadium is being led by Nike…
Fortunately we’ve got the Internet Archive: Free Speech Guidelines Rights, rules, responsibilities, and resources At the University of Oregon, established guidelines protect the right to free speech, while ensuring that opposing views may also be expressed. The basic guideline says that whenever one person’s or one group’s activities prevent another’s sanctioned…
Thanks to an alert reader for the link to UT’s puff piece.
At Temple, Inside Higher Ed here.
Audio file here. Adams was a fierce supporter of former artistic director Matthew Halls during Lintgate, and the word down at the faculty club is that the festival’s PR flacks are not happy about this free publicity. OBF ticket info here, bio on Ms Adams here.
I’m kidding, that’s just bargaining. But when a professor lies to his dean about an outside offer, that’s a felony: FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – A former professor at Colorado State University is facing a felony charge for fabricating an outside job offer to improve his status at CSU. Professor…
From June 8, just getting around to posting. Video here: I’m posting this in part because of today’s Op-Ed in the Oregonian from Oregon Association of Scholars President (and PSU PoliSci prof) Bruce Gilley, which inaccurately characterizes the UO Senate’s resolution in support of the free-speech rights of our students as…
That would be the University of Maryland. The WaPo: A federal grand jury in New York investigating corruption in college basketball has requested records from Maryland regarding one unnamed former player, assistant coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson, and Silvio De Sousa, a recruit who ultimately attended Kansas. Maryland released copies of…
The Eugene Weekly has the report here: After the most tumultuous year in its history, the Oregon Bach Festival returns — its internationally acclaimed artistic director fired, its reputation tarnished by his mysterious dismissal and its parent University of Oregon’s botched, secretive handling of the whole situation and its schedule diminished. Yet the…
I’m no economist son of an historian, but he seems like a good hire. Website:
The SCOTUS be damned. 75% of UO’s tenure-track faculty are now full voting members of UAUO. And as of today all of Oregon’s 7 public universities have unionized faculty, including what some call Oregon’s flagship university. Union website here. I never believed that more than 50% of the faculty of…
“The federal government may no longer extract taxes from nonconsenting citizens”, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority. “This procedure violates the First Amendment and cannot continue. Citizens cannot be compelled to pay to support political speech with which they disagree.” Whoops, the SCOTUS decision was actually about…
Congratulations to the good people of Springfield. Elon Glucklich in the RG: … The council voted unanimously Monday evening to end the ICE contract with the Springfield Police Department. Since 2012, the contract has allowed ICE to rent up to five of its 100 municipal jail beds at a time…