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I just came across this link to a blog post about the scandal at Penn State, written last year by the CnC professor that I have just put under so much scrutiny. An excerpt: To this day, universities justify college football on the grounds that it builds character, but all the…
Highlights of the Feb Senate meeting:1) Gottfredson promised to either a) make Randy Geller write an opinion explaining why he believes FERPA precludes faculty from seeing data that might allow them to identify individual students, or b) finally give the IAC the data on academic performance of student athletes that…
From Inside Higher Ed. Unfortunately the professor was teaching CS, not Econ. This appears to be history’s first recorded successful implementation of a strategy discussed in every economics class I’ve ever taken, or taught. Read it all, the students used a combination of social media and intimidation to enforce cooperation:…
I’m used to writing questions like this for a prelim exam, not seeing them in a newspaper. 2/11/13.
Lots o’ data: http://ous.edu/factreport/factbook/2012 2/7/2012.
Guess who was in on Nike tax bullying We’ll give you a hint: His annual PERS check is $252,327. And his partner Sharon Rudnick is negotiating for the administration with the union for $400 an hour. And UO won’t give up the invoices showing her total payments. See below for the bargaining…
2/7/2013. That’s at Gustavus Adolphus University. The faculty and students are angry over lack of transparency and false promises of shared governance. Here at UO it’s been a month since I paid Dave Hubin $108 to see a printout of President Gottfredson’s official calendar – something many presidents just post on…
In the Oregonian, here. Nesbitt is Kitzhaber’s advisor on education. 2/6/2013.
2/4/2013 PM Update: The NYTimes calls out the UNC athletic department for pushing its “student athletes” into sham classes. At UO?2/4/2013 AM Update: They’ve now named a special prosecutor. 1/31/2013: The costs for those who help cover it up have increased. The NYT has the latest.
Some great ODE photos here, by Nate Barrett, Michael Arellano, and Mason Trinca. Also – did anyone know UO has a hockey team? And has anyone been paying attention to how badly Paul Westhead is doing as Women’s BB coach? Announced attendance for Friday’s loss to Stanford was 1,812. But like…
Early days on this, but it certainly seems to threaten the current business model for big-time college sports, where all the profits go to the coach and athletic director – and where university administrators can charge off hundreds of thousands of dollars in bowl game junket expenses, while it’s an…
Aaron Swartz committed suicide because of the US DOJ’s persecution of him over the JSTOR journal articles. Carl Malamud is the man who persuaded the Oregon Legislature to stop trying to claim copyright to Oregon Law, and who helped me get the Oregon AG’s Public Records Manual online, despite legal…
1/20/2013. Mullens will announce the hire today. The RG editors called for UO to follow state law: 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…