10/29/2012: The University of Iowa Law School was sued in 2009 for failing to hire a conservative instructor. The ruling just came out, and is described by Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle: In a case in which the University of Iowa College of Law stood accused of political bias for…
Posts tagged as “Diversity”
10/7/2012: Physics Prof Steve Hsu left UO this fall, to be VP for Research at MSU. Matthew Miller of the Lansing paper has a report. Not the usual generics, it deals in part with an email sent to MSU colleagues by UO Prof Daniel HoSang about Hsu’s views and research on…
Federal law requires annual updates, the 2012-13 plan was due 7/1/2012. The OFCCP has investigated Penny Daugherty’s AAEO office before for their repeated failure to do these plans, and for backdating them to make it look like they had. Last year Lariviere signed it late and just left off the…
7/3/2012 update: I got interested in public records matters back in 2006, after Melinda Grier and AA Director Penny Daugherty tried to charge me $200 to see copies of UO’s Affirmative Action plans – documents which state clearly on the cover that they are to be made freely available on…
5/31/2012 updates. The Volokh Conspiracy gives a round-up and some analysis. From Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle: A national federation of more than 200 Indian-American groups has joined two other prominent Indian organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to end race-conscious college admissions in a case involving the University…
3/4/2012: Best of luck to Ms Alex-Assensoh, who was hired by CAS Dean Scott Coltrane and VP Robin Holmes after an open, reasonably transparent national search, and who has excellent credentials (PhD, law degree, research) and relevant experience at IU. I didn’t go to the interviews but on paper I…
2/2/2012: There’s also a form for feedback. Not sure what the deadline is. http://president.uoregon.edu/vpdiversity/vpei-finalists-information My favorite candidate is “shut down this office and spend the money we save on student scholarships.” It’s a very expensive office. But I’ll confess I have not watched more than a snippet of the presentations.
1/15/2012: UO’s OIED has a calendar of events here. Keynote speaker is “the founder of black psychology” Joseph White, 5PM EMU ballroom. Sorry but this looks like a snoozer: My advice is stay home and surf youtube for the real thing:
1/13/2012: Diversity VP Charles Martinez was one of those no-search interim appointments gone permanent and bad. He had a remarkable ability to screw up UO’s diversity efforts, despite spending most of his time off campus double dipping at his second job at OSLC. Jim Bean and Russ Tomlin protected him…
12/30/2011: Readers have asked me to get information on the cost and plans for UO – Portland, for the Huron consulting contracts, and for info on the VP for Diversity search. I’ve been asking VP for Portland Wendy Larson for the Portland info, and I’ve filed PR requests for Huron…
12/7/2011: Gay rights, human rights. Good for Ms Clinton for using our power for this cause. And on a UO specific topic, read this ODE piece by Josephine Woolington, who gets some honest, revealing quotes on a subject that is shields up for most everyone.
10/14/2011: We’ve had a few posts about conflicts between VP for Students Robin Holmes and the students. Both now seem resolved, at least temporarily. Franklin Bains has a long story in the ODE on EMU referendum: The meat of this negotiation was a line-by-line hashing out where Eckstein would read…
10/31/2011: Better late than never. The students who oppose this have a blog here. Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence Responses to Recent Questions 1. Is OMAS being eliminated? You will no longer see the name Office of Multicultural Academic Support (OMAS). However, all of the current staff of OMAS will…
10/30/2011: OIED VP Charles Martinez was one of those interim appointments gone permanent and bad. He had a remarkable ability to screw up UO’s diversity efforts, despite spending most of his time off campus double dipping at his second job at OSLC. Last year Lariviere bought Martinez off with a…
10/26/2011: An anonymous correspondent reports that VP Robin Holmes is closing the Office of Multicultural Academic Success and replacing it with something called CMAE, the Center for Multicultural Access and Excellence. They point readers toward uotruth.tumblr.com for more information and documents, and say that students, staff, and faculty are organizing…