Breaking news: Union Takes the Goat Faculty get average 12% raises (all in place by July 1, 2014, 10 months from now) $350 goat signing bonus (pro-rated by FTE) Increases in sabbatical and promotion raises Admins agree to leave Senate COI/COC (consulting) rules in place Admins agree old IP policy stays…
Posts tagged as “Academic Freedom”
Thursday, September 12, 1pm-5pm in Knight Library 101. This is the big one, be there. not the end, bring more colleagues next time, we’ll probably need an even bigger room as start of term approaches and raises, consulting, and IP come up.PDFs of proposals submitted 9/12/2013 here. Disclaimer: My respectful opinion of…
9/10/2013: That would be the Communist Party administration, in China. The NYT reports: Worried about its hold on public opinion, the Chinese government has pursued a propaganda and police offensive against what it calls malicious rumor-mongering online. Police forces across the country have announced the detentions of hundreds of microblog…
“Call for Solidarity with the Protestors in Turkey In their Struggle to Defend Democracy Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM Location: In front of Knight Library. Tens of thousands of protestors in Turkey have suffered, and resisted, state authorized police brutality for the last 6 days. The events…
would he? NYT: Harvard secretly searched the e-mail accounts of several of its staff members last fall, looking for the source of news media leaks about its recent cheating scandal, but did not tell them about the searches for several months, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday. Under…
2/1/2013: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education helped the student pursue the case: A federal jury today found former Valdosta State University (VSU) President Ronald M. Zaccari personally liable for $50,000 for violating the due process rights of former student Hayden Barnes in the case of Barnes v. Zaccari.…
Update: See the comments for this correction, from Ms Emeldi’s lawyer, David Force, making clear that the Emeldi case is against UO, not against Prof Horner: There is not now and never has been a lawsuit by her against Dr. Horner. The sole defendant in the case is the University…
5/11/2011: The ivory tower has never been exactly snowy white, but here is an example of a particularly egregious case, the Koch gifts to fund chairs in Free Market Economics at Florida State. Fascinating gift letter/contract here, news story from Kris Hundley of the St. Petersburg Times (that’s Florida, not…
4/21/2011: Posted at the request of UO historian Glenn Anthony May: I received an Email today from a distinguished China scholar who asks whether the University of Oregon has had public discussions concerning the “illegal detention of Ai Weiwei.” I can’t answer that. (Here is one event at PSU.) Are…
4/5/2011: The original decision generated a lot of bad press about China’s intentions regarding academic freedom at its Confucius Institutes. From Insidehighered.com: China Again Recognizes U. of Calgary China has restored the University of Calgary to the country’s list of accredited universities, a list that many Chinese students rely upon…
3/8/2011 update: Richard Read of the Oregonian gets some amazing quotes on this, from the PSU CI head. 3/6/2011: The London School of Economics has thoroughly embarrassed itself with its ties to the Gaddafi regime. The world now knows you can buy an LSE PhD and whatever that brings in…