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…
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“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…
For the Knight Campus. From Around the O: The DeArmonds have been avid donors to the university for years. In 2005, their leadership challenge gift helped launch the fundraising effort for construction of the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building, inspiring Lorry I. Lokey and other donors to contribute. The building…
Update: From the RG, here: UO spokesman Tobin Klinger described the work being done Friday as the “pre-construction process,” part of preparing the site for a new stadium. “There are a couple of earth-movers that are doing the removal in a way that is intended to allow us to continue…
The RG’s Maggie Vinoni reports here: … UO Deputy Athletic Director Eric Roedl said that out-of-town fans would benefit from having more time to enjoy pregame festivities. “Sixty percent of our current football season ticket base comes from beyond Lane, Linn and Benton counties,” Roedl said. “Which means they are…
Update: A press release, explaining that city officials will be present to discuss the arborcide. Contact: Michael Carrigan 541-844-4677 Jim Watson 541-520-8942 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Tuesday, June 19 Protesters To Gather at Hayward Field East Grandstand Tuesday Community members will hold a vigil at 2:00 PM Tuesday to protest the…
Call me an economist, but one of the things I love about graduation day is the sense of accomplishment in knowing that I’ve helped ship some high quality product. In this view, our university’s job is to transform raw high school inputs into sharp, well-tempered, polished college outputs. We don’t…
Which they did. The Eugene Weekly has the report here: On Friday, June 8, local videographer Tim Lewis ran onto Hayward’s track during the meet, wearing a T-shirt that said “Save Hayward” and holding up another that said “Pre Lives For Now.” … Lewis was arrested on the misdemeanor charges…
That would be the University of Chicago, which will no longer require undergraduate applicants to submit SAT/ACT scores.
Good, bad, mediocre? Perfect? Fixable? Too much trouble, so just pay for the small stuff out of pocket? Discuss. I’m no fan of implementing university policy via software, but I haven’t used it yet. And for some historical perspective:
Emailed to campus 6/13/2018: Dear University of Oregon community members, As we close out the 2017-18 academic year, I offer my warm congratulations to all of our graduates. I also want to thank everyone—faculty, advisors, graduate instructors and researchers, and staff—who helped our graduates reach the finish line. I look…
Ken Goe has the report in the Oregonian here: — I don’t trust yesterday’s official attendance figure of 9,767. I spent part of an afternoon earlier this year hand-counting the seats at Hayward Field. I found capacity was approximately 8,500, which is far short of the University Oregon’s official figure of 10,500.…
Reporter Meerah Powell, here.
As with most BOT meetings, this one is scheduled to coincide with an athletic event. In this case it’s the NCAA T&F championships. The next meeting is Sept 6-7, followed by a Duck football body-bag game against PSU. You can go to the BOT website here and click and page…