Link to their twitter here. For some history on past such efforts for reform by UO’s black students, there’s a good 2019 piece on Around the O, here. While it has the mandatory puffery about the vital roles of President Schill and VP Alex-Assensoh (both on the job market) and…
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There’s the mandatory puffery about the vital roles of President Schill and VP Alex-Assensoh (both on the job market) and VP Marbury, but author Jim Murez does that cleverly and tells much, much more. Respect. It’s hard to find his text on Around the O’s graphic laden website, the direct…
That’s the rumor from a generally reliable source, who reports the ask to ASUO is coming from VP for Student Life Kevin Marbury. Pres Schill got a donor, but apparently CPFM low-balled the construction estimate and they don’t want to go back to that well. No word yet on whether…
From Round the O: The event, “How Students Used History to Change the Future: The Dunn, Unthank Case Study,” will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the Erb Memorial Union’s Redwood Auditorium.
9/24/2017: Apparently both share similarly grandiose views of their authority, and both lack an understanding of the First Amendment and American history. Of course the NCAA gives Altman considerably more power over “his” players than Trump has over Kaepernick, the NFL and the NBA, and so far Altman been able to…
9/29/2016: In response to questions about how likely it was that Professor Dunn was duped into becoming the leader of the Eugene KKK in the early 1920’s, I asked Elizabeth Peterson, the cinema studies librarian and film archivist in the UO Libraries, about local showings of “The Birth of a Nation”, the infamously…
This is a long detailed report by David Pluviose, with many interesting quotes from the students and UO administrators. Thanks to a reader for the link.
The UO BOT does not post videos of the board meetings – so UO Matters operatives will do it for them. More to come. (Links fixed, thanks.) Randy Sullivan’s farewell speech to the Board: “Six Myths the UO Trustees believe about the University Senate” starts at https://youtu.be/qn1T21TlS_0?t=2h8m2s Faculty Union President Michael Dreiling…
The RG has a list of the demands from UO’s Black Student Task force here, along with UO’s responses so far. Here are some of the demands and responses: 2: Create an African-American Opportunities program that is comparable to the Opportunities program for Latino students. In fall 2016, the enrollment…
Sent out this afternoon: Dear campus community, One of the hallmarks of a great university is that it does not shy away from tough questions or difficult topics, be they cultural, theoretical, or scientific. Rather, a great university embraces challenges and applies intellectual, academic, and research rigor to delivering solutions…
The list of UO’s Black student demands is here. Around the O has info on MLK week events, here.
This is from 538, here, citing TheDemands.org: The most common demands, according to our analysis, have been for schools to increase the diversity of professors, offer sensitivity training to students and faculty members, and create or expand support for cultural centers on campus. The demands at more than a quarter of…
11/30/2015: The data is from a discussion on InsideHigherEd, here: … How realistic are these goals? Penn proves informative. Even with its prestige and an arsenal of cash, progress has been steady but relatively slow — at least compared to the Mizzou timeline. Between 2011 and 2013, the percentage of…