Category: Academic

The Taormino-OSU Case Study: a pedagogical tool

A Pedagogical Case Study of the Keynote-Speaker Controversy at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference by Lacey Mamak, MLIS, February 2012 http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/Misc/TaorminoOSU_casestudydistro.pdf Abstract

UO’s Goodman Offered Institute for Advanced Studies Membership

From InsideOregon—Bryna Goodman, a professor of modern Chinese history and executive director of the University of Oregon’s Confucius Institute, has been offered a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study beginning next fall. The title of her project is “Economics…

Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable

Graduate Student Center 111 Susan Campbell Hall UO campus The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents: “Queer Experiments in Pedagogy” Guest speakers: Chicora Martin, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, LGBT Education and UO Support Services Mary Wood, Associate Professor, UO…

UO Doctoral Student Offers PowerPoint Presentation on Educational Reform

Under the current austerity regime forced on school districts by lack of tax revenue, imagining a more equitable school system that respects individuals may seem out of step with the business oriented forces at work in U.S. education policy. But…

Consciousness Rising: Unearthing the Tangled Roots of the University’s Feminist Organizations

  Open publication The Siren (Summer 2011, published by the ASUO Women’s Center)—an article by Brandy Ota and Jennifer Busby Brandy Ota is the director of the Associated Students at the University of Oregon (ASUO) Women‘s Center. Jennifer Busby is…

Lynn Fujiwara Named Chair Elect of ASA Section on Asia and Asian America

July 12, 2011—University of Oregon associate professor Lynn Fujiwara was named chair elect of the Section on Asia and Asian America for the American Sociological Association. Co-coordinator of the Women of Color Project at the UO Center for the Study…