4/5/2012: The UO Matters readership is mostly Johnson Hall administrators seeing if I’ve posted anything they can sue me over, plus a few faculty. But occasionally a student stops by. For their benefit I’m posting this link from the Commentator, by Rebecca X: ASUO ELECTIONS ’12: The Official Oregon Commentator…
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3/6/2012: From the NY Fed: The outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion,1 surpassing the total credit card balance ($693 billion) and the total auto loan balance ($730 billion). With college enrollments increasing and the costs of attendance rising, this balance of student loan debt is expected…
3/2/2012: Back of the envelope, each UO student pays $200-$500 per year in various subsidies for the jocks. In December the students voted 9 to 1 to start pressuring AD Rob Mullens to come clean about this, and fulfill longtime promises from past athletic directors to start making a contribution…
12/7/2011: VP for students Robin Holmes gave the UO students an ultimatum: Vote for the administration’s version of your new student union, or you will get nothing: Holmes also said the administration will respect the student vote. If the referendum is rejected, the projects will not be built and the…
12/2/2011: The UO students stuck up for the faculty and for the future of UO all this week. Now they are finishing dead week with a vote against the ill-conceived plans of the UO administration to build a new cadillac student union at student expense – but without student input.…
11/14/2011: That would be the President of UO’s student government, Ben Eckstein. He’s backed up by Ben Bowman, chair of the student Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee. From the excellent ODE story by Rockne Andrew Roll: The ASUO Executive and the Athletics and Contracts Finance Committee are sending a message…
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…
11/10/2011 Update: The ODE reports the student leadership have agreed to a plan on the EMU referendum, which they will present to VP Holmes today. 11/9/2011: The UO administration is going after ASUO President Ben Eckstein because he went to the OUS board and got them to agree that UO…
10/14/2011: A New York Times article explains how competitive Indian universities have become, and how more students are coming to the US, instead of the UK. These are top students and it would be good networking for our Oregon students. Indian enrollment is still very low here. President Lariviere is…
9/19/2011: From the ODE Franklin Bains article: – Last year, when the state government was looking through proposals to fix the ailing public higher education system, students in Oregon — including University students — roundly condemned University President Richard Lariviere’s plan, which wanted to use a mix of public and…
9/18/2011: The just released campus livability working group report is here. Joe Moseley’s HotTopics blog has some good comments, here. And Ed Russo has a long story in the RG – part of a series – on the impact of student partying on the neighborhoods south and west of campus.…
8/11/2011: From Dan Ariely at Duke, in the Chronicle: They sent all 498 of their classmates e-mail messages from a fictitious student explaining how to download Mr. Ariely’s final-exam questions and answers from the previous year. Half the messages included this postscript: “P.S. I don’t know if this is cheating…
In terms of what UO can contribute, long-run, to Oregon’s economic growth, bringing smart ambitious undergrads from other countries with growing economies (and from other parts of the US) to Oregon is surely #1 on the list. Plus we get their out-of-state tuition and the diversity spillover for our Oregon…
7/14/2011: From a study by Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy reported in insidehighered.com.43% of college grades are A’s, 4% are F’s. Good discussion in the NYT. In my department it’s more like 20% and 5%. I’ve heard the average grade in the UO education school is A. Here’s a link…
6/5/2011: UO student Ben DeJarnette adds some diversity of thought to his education – with a joint class with Oregon State Penitentiary inmates. From his Op-Ed in the RG: … As universities do somersaults to achieve diversity in their student bodies, the Inside-Out experience should force us to question what…