11/15/2012: Research by economist (and UO PhD grad) Brad Curs, report by Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle: Participating in lower-tier bowls does little to drive enrollment but adds slightly to the bottom line, new research suggests, countering the notion that postseason football, outside of the highest-rated games, is a money…
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Subjects from the UO experiment report: “I felt immensely powerless and almost naked …”. ” … I felt like half a person.” This torture got through UO human subjects review? Shocking. BTW, UO IRB is now saying that renewal of an existing protocol will take them almost 2 months. How much…
Sorry, that’s at Ohio State. Here at UO we are losing top science PI’s and our president is refusing to pay out a 3.5% raise that is already funded. At OSU the money will come in part from parking revenue, believe it or not. Here at UO the parking fees…
Update: After Randy didn’t reply to my requests for an explanation for the delay, I sent a public records petition to Lane County DA Alex Gardner. An hour later I got a response from Dave Hubin’s public records office, offering to sell me these invoices and contracts for $235. It…
Like most faculty I spend a lot of time advising students on how to get a good education at UO. I tell them every educated person needs a basic knowledge of evolution and at least two languages, three if you count BASH scripting. And really, how hard can Math 413 be?…
11/11/2012: Bill Gates, here: I’m reminded of a point made by Andrew Rosen of Kaplan, the for-profit education company, that colleges today know more about how many kids attend basketball games and which alumni give money than how many students showed up for economics class during the week, or which…
Just kidding, the NYT story on Falwell’s efforts to turn Liberty University into a big-time college football powerhouse says they will rely on prayer instead. Necessary but not sufficient. Proof: see FishDuck.com. 11/11/2012.
http://youtu.be/1kKBJsWXFoc
Highlights? Bean speaks, Mullens’s random policy on pot tests, faculty reviews of administrators. Senate Meeting Agenda – November 7, 2012 2012-2013 Agendas Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 1.1 Approval of the Minutes of the May 9 & 23, 2012 Meetings 3:05 pm 2. State…
The office of communication has set up its own blog. Better production values, but fewer public records, and no comments: http://around.uoregon.edu/o-blog
Whoops, sorry, it’s AD Rob Mullens that’s doing the search, and it’s just for a new women’s soccer coach. It’s nice to see that performance and transparency matters somewhere at UO though. Mullens for Provost! He has even appointed a professor, Jennifer Reynolds from law, to the search committee. 11/4/2012.
11/4/2012: Obviously there’s lots of competition between universities for students. Some of it is based on the consumption value of the “college experience” and some on the employment value of the degrees we issue them. There are some fairly attractive alternatives to the “college experience” – travel the world, be…
11/3/2012. Good story about UNC Chancellor (Chapel Hill campus president) Holden Thorp and the difficulties of managing a large research university/sports enterprise. UNC spends about 8 times more on research than sports. While at UO? More on this later.
11/1/2012: The US still has a comparative advantage in higher education. But if we keep going down this road it’s just going to be in football. From Insidehighered.com: Education officials from Taiwan traveled to California last week to recruit students, The Los Angeles Times reported. About 1,000 people — many…
Spellman college has just done it. Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has the story. 11/1/2012.