11/18/2013: An great story by Jennifer Hernandez in the Oregon Daily Emerald, about the new recruitment director for UO’s College Republicans.
Posts tagged as “Diversity”
10/29/2013: The UO Breakfast for Diversity Champions on October 31, 2013, will feature UO President Michael Gottfredson and Expert-in-Residence Dr. A.T. Miller, Associate Vice Provost, Cornell University. President Gottfredson will charge the university community in preparation for the next strategic planning process, … In the past UO has spent its diversity money on…
7/13/2013: From the wonderful fan based Fishduck.com blog: In 1926 two Portland, OR residents came to Eugene for their academic and athletic pursuits, Robert “Bobby” Robinson and Charles Williams. They were recruited by new Oregon head coach John J. McEwan, an All-American in 1914 at Army, the school where he…
5/14/2013: NYT discussion on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on racial preferences in college admissions, and income targeted alternatives, here.
In red, from Dave Hubin’s fascinating UO accreditation report:
Executive Summary: Bean still confused by numbers. Alex-Assensoh makes friends. Tublitz’s motion on a performance review of Bean put off until Feb meeting, giving Bean a little more time to find a new job, maybe Rose-Hulman will bite. Motion requiring Gottfredson to tell Holmes and Eveland to stop stalling and…
Update: And don’t miss the RG Op-Ed from former VP for Diversity Charles Martinez, hired and promoted by Frohnmayer and Bean without an affirmative action compliant open search, then fired by President Lariviere after widespread complaints from people on all sides of the diversity debates. Martinez took the money and ran, and…
1/13/2013: UO’s new VP for Equity Yvette Alex-Assensoh’s proposal for reforms in how UO handles Native American Affairs is here: And here’s the memo from YAA, Human Resources, and Randy Geller’s office, telling OEI staff that “we have an obligation while at work to refrain from comments that might negatively…
than non-minority urban students. That’s the revealed preference estimate, from the OUS graduation incentive payment scheme here. 1/13/2013.
In the RG: Three additional meetings are scheduled for today and Friday to address the university’s strategic equity and inclusion plan, and the restructuring of its equity office. The biggest part of Wednesday’s meeting involved audience members breaking into groups to answer questions intended to inform the equity plan. Next…
RG editors call for UO to follow state law on search for new football coach: Turns out that promoting Helfrich without interviewing a qualified minority candidate — or at least making a good-faith attempt to find such a candidate — would violate Oregon law. Three years ago, the Oregon Legislature…
Update, from the comments: One of the groups leading the attack against the restructuring is the Oregon Indian Education Association. Their president is Alison Ball. http://02af27e.netsolhost.com/OIEA/welcome-to-oiea/board-of-directors/ She is the wife of Tom Ball, one of the 3 AVP’s that was just reassigned: http://diversity.uoregon.edu/dr-tom-ball-assistant-vice-president I haven’t seen any acknowledgement of this rather…
Congratulations to the Ad Hoc Beangram Team for disemboweling yet another message from Interim Provost Bean. I’m glad to see I’m not the only UO prof who enjoys our Interim Provost’s unique mix of pretension, condescension, dissimulation, and ignorant disrespect for data and analysis.Updates: See bottom, from data located by a…
Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, V. Joseph Hotz NBER Working Paper No. 18523Issued in November 2012 Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California’s public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of…
11/4/2012: The NYT education magazine has an article about it, Steve Hsu has the link and a good take in his blog, here. Brandeis was famously started in part as a reaction to Ivy League discrimination against Jews – the “numerus clausus”. I wonder if there will be a similar market…