Faith Ekakitie drops oregon

[UOducksTK1]

according to rivals

[greenyellow]

Better move this before Bud sees this.

[USUaggieDuck]

is faith a guy?

[UOducksTK1]

Better move this before Bud sees this.

LOL done, he rarely lurks over here though.

[lukeyrid13]

Did anyone ever expect him to come here?

[UOducksTK1]

Did anyone ever expect him to come here?

He visited.

[uostudent]

Didn't expect him to come here.

Here's what he says on his blog about his Iowa visit:
"They definitely are not a terrible academic school (ranked 71st in the country), but considering the other schools I have on my list, they are obviously not the best when making head-head comparisons."

If a kid is just using US News rankings to pick a school, then he probably wasn't going to go to Oregon (101).

He is down to Boston College (31), Georgia Tech (36), Northwestern (12), and Iowa (71). Btw, Iowa really isn't any better than Oregon if you look at admissions stats. Iowa is ranked higher than Oregon because they have a larger endowment and pay their faculty more.

Average GPA:
Iowa 3.6
Oregon 3.59

Acceptance Rate:
Iowa 84%
Oregon 73%

Both AAU members.

The state of Iowa is much better run than Oregon and they emphasize education. The two states are fairly comparable in size (population). Iowa is a good school that is maximizing its potential. Oregon was heading in the right direction under Lariviere, but who knows what's going to happen now that he's gone.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ekakitie ends up at Northwestern. They have outstanding academics, a very good coach, and they aren't terribly far from home (he's from Toronto, so NW, Iowa, and BC all make sense in terms of distance).

[buckmarkduck]

I hate our state leg and board. Give UO a medical school and we would be a top 50 school.

[greenyellow]

I hate our state leg and board. Give UO a medical school and we would be a top 50 school.

There is basically a half-empty hospital (Sacred Heart) right next to UO that could fit the bill, but the state is not really willing to have another medical school due to already having one and the costs associated with starting up a medical school.

[hermistonduck]

A med school at Oreon would do wonders for the state. OHSU doesn't even give preference to instate applicants, thus leading many to leave the state and never come back. Eastern Oregon is always facing a severe shortage of doctors (even worse for nurses) that another med school would take care of. I really still am in shock of the OUS firing Lariviere. I guess you can't really expect much when the the chancellor of your states educational system doesnt even value education enough to have a PHd.. Uncle Phils comments about the OUS can't be more spot on. Bummer about Faith though!

[duck55]

I hate our state leg and board. Give UO back the medical school and we would be a top 50 school.

fixed - I still remember OHSU as U of O Medical School.

[Mukden]

Why did we lose the med school? Was it politically motivated or what?

I've been hearing a lot of noise about OHSU merging with PSU and creating a full fledged research university. So instead of being like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. and having one or two elite research universities, some people in Oregon just want us to have three mediocre ones (with nowhere to get a cheap education in the PDX metro)?

[duck55]

1974 University of Oregon Health Sciences Center is formed as an independent institution under the direction of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing are brought together under one umbrella to create this new center. The center becomes Oregon's only academic health center and one of 125 in the nation.
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/facts/history.cfm

The university can trace its roots back to the 1860s when the predecessor Willamette University School of Medicine was started in Salem. Willamette University and the University of Oregon merged their medical programs in 1913, creating the University of Oregon schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing. This lasted until 1974 when the state mandated the combination of those three schools into one freestanding University, independent of the University of Oregon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Hea ... University

It was a political move at the time.

And, Uncle Phil is heavily invested there as well :
On October 29, 2008, OHSU announced its largest philanthropic gift to date: a $100 million gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight. The gift went to the OHSU Cancer Institute, renaming it the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

[woundedknees]

There will be nowhere to get a "cheap" education in any of the 3 largest metro areas of the state, if that is the case... Pretty progressive thinknig on the part of Oregon, eh?

The economy sucks, so let's continue to hamstring and gut the educational system... That oughta help!

Geez, I've got no degree, and have no problem recognizing the issue!

(Logging company/Ranch/ Sawmill owner's kid... At the time, it made sense to get practical experience.)

[Zyme]

I hate our state leg and board. Give UO a medical school and we would be a top 50 school.

We did have a medical school. It is called OHSU. It was split off quite some time ago. It was then called the Oregon Medical School