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The Dalai Lama is coming to UO and will give a talk at the Matt Court basketball arena. Diane Dietz of the Register Guard reports that the tickets, which UO sold for $20 on a first-come first-served basis, with all proceeds to go to charity, are worth considerably more: But…

3/25/2013: That’s the latest rumor from the faculty club sushi bar. The next hearing is Tuesday 3/26.

3/23/2013: The NCAA Academic Progress Rate is a measure of the progress to graduation of “student athletes”. Explanation here. The most recent Pac-12 median was 962. The APR for UO’s basketball team has been steadily falling and is now below the 930 rate that will be required for post-season play in…

I’m trying a new system for comments, called Disqus, you’ve probably seen it on other blogs. It works now, but the last 2 days of comments are being transferred, and may not show up for a day or so. To comment you should create a free, anonymous Disqus account. It…

From the AAUO website, 3/14/2013: The faculty bargaining team wants to let you know that they are working hard on a response to the University Administration’s raise proposal. Although the University Administration originally gave us the deadline of March 12 to respond, we have been able to work with them…

The Ellsberg Paradox is an early and important anomaly involving risky decisions. It was an inspiration for what’s now known as behavioral economics. I taught it for years before I learned that the author was the same Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the NYT in 1971. It…

This is from the “Financial Transparency Tool” which you can access through duckweb, off the employee tab. If you drill down you’ll see that this growth over the past 5 years for “University Relations” – which amounts to $4 million a year in recurring costs over the 2008 level –…

That’s an argument UO’s SAIL program has been making for 7 years now. The NYT reports it is gaining traction, because racial preferences have reduced SES diversity at elite colleges: In fact, race plays a role unlike almost any other factor. An African-American student with a similar application to a…

It seems possible. Now that’s muckraking. 3/9/13.

3/5/2013: Brian has been UO’s undergraduate admissions director for as long as I’ve been following these things. Organized, personable, gives great talks to the parents and prospective students, supported SAIL from the start, and respects and knows how to use data. One of the many midlevel administrators who kept UO…

3/5/2012: Should be good, more here: Eagleman asks, “If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain’s function, what is all the rest doing?” Eagleman has spent years researching this question, and has uncovered some startling new answers. He will show how our behavior,…

Does anyone know what happened to Assistant General Counsel Paul Kaufmann? He used to be listed on the GC website, right above Randy’s General Counsel Emeritus (sic) Melinda Grier. (Geller’s apology letter to former hack job AG John Kroger and the Honorable Judge David Leith is here.) Now he’s gone.…

Investigative reporting by Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian, relayed to us by our Portland reporter Bojack, covering the tax scam beat: You can argue about tax giveaways for “green” this-and-that, but just about everybody would agree that the companies that reap the benefit of those subsidy programs should be required to…