Showing posts with label athletics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label athletics. Show all posts
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Without Comment: Judge Grants Mike McQueary's lawyers $1.7 million; had awarded McQueary nearly $5 million in November

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(Pix credit HERE ) There is little need for comment here. . . . other than to remind people that sometimes the most important mo...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

On the U.S. Department of Education Final Program Review Determination Re Penn State's Clery Act Compliance Before 2011 and Its Assessment of a $2.9 Million Fine

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"This letter is to inform you that the U.S. Department of Education (Department) intends to fine the Pennsylvania State Universit...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Unionization Comes to the Learning Factory: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and Graduate Workers of Columbia– GWC, UAW. Case 02–RC–143012 (August 23, 2016)

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Once upon a time, the University was a well ordered enterprise for knowledge production and dissemination.  But it has fractured and bee...
Friday, January 16, 2015

On the Penn State NCAA Sanctions Settlement--What Might it Mean for North Carolina . . . and the NCAA?

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) This today from Penn State News: Board of Trustees approves terms of proposed NCAA lawsuit settlem...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Report of the Student Conduct Code Task Force

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The road to simplicity can sometimes be strewn with the wreckage of good intentions and knowledge excessively applied to judgment that migh...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Informal Report: Faculty Senate meets for final meeting of 2012

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--> In its final meeting for 2012, Penn State’s Faculty Senate on Tuesday (Dec. 4) held a forensic session on faculty appointmen...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Senate to Consider Resolution in Praise of University Leaders

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(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012) At its December 2012 meeting, the Penn State  University  Faculty Senate will consider the following r...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Michael Bérubé: On the Road From the Paterno Family Professorship in Literature at Pennsylvania State University

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Michael Bérubé explains why he resigned the Paterno Family Professorship in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The explan...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Too Little but Maybe Not Too Late: Association of Governing Board's Report on Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics

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The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) "is the only national association that serves the interests and...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Donald Ford on Football Culture at Penn State

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Donald Ford, Dean and Professor Emeritus at Penn State, has shared with me an important assessment, viewed through the critically important...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Statement of the Penn State University Faculty Senate Chair Larry Catá Backer Regarding the NCAA Consent Decree and the Sanctions Declared by the Big 10

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(Pix from Faculty Senate 101: An Introduction , Onward State, August 2010) The Pennsylvania State University Faculty Senate re...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

In Anticipation of NCAA Sanctions Against Penn State: Asymmetric Process in the Service of Gesture

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It appears to remain as true today, as it has in every age, that emotional issues tend to put tremendous pressure on systems built to provi...

Removing the Paterno Statue--Statement of President Erickson

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In this country, at this university and at this time, symbols appear to have become far more important than substance.  Intangibles--values...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Drawing the Wrong Lessons From the Sandiusky Scandal for Institutional Reform and Athletics: John Feinstein on "The Lesson of Penn State"

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John Feinstein has written an interesting opinion essay that is worth considering.  John Feinstein, No Pedestals for Coaches , The Washingt...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Penn State's Cultures of Silence: A View From Outside In and Inside Out

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The Sandusky scandal has produced a number of distinct stories about Penn State.  For some, Sandusky represents the story of a predator tha...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Reflections on the Verdict in Commonwealth v. Sandusky

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President Rodney Erickson has released a  Message from President Rodney Erickson on Sandusky trial verdict , Penn State Live, June 22, 2012...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Sandusky Verdict In--Guilty of 45 of 48 Counts

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(Pix from Kevin Johnson, Sandusky convicted on 45 of 48 charges in sex-abuse case , USA Today, June 22, 2012) "Former Penn State a...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Without Comment: Ex-Penn State Officials May Face More Charges

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The trial of Jerry Sandusky has started.  See Colleen, Jerry Sandusky Trial: The Major Players , ABC News, June 11, 2012. (For Penn State...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Made to Market Education and Professionalization in University Education

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I had earlier considered the issue of "professionalization" in education, focusing on many people's favorite stalking horse--...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Irony and Incoherence in the "Professionalization" of University Education

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The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) is an alliance of 59 faculty senates at NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision schools; for mor...