I heard some good reports about workshop #2 on Tuesday, which apparently had about 100 people show up. Here’s the announcement for #3:
Dear students, faculty, OAs, and classified staff:
Your input and expertise is greatly needed for the university’s strategic planning process. We are currently in the process of creating a strategic plan that will chart our course into the future. We need your help in shaping our strategic direction; and defining our university’s priorities and goals.
We invite you to participate in the upcoming Strategic Planning Workshop:
Workshop 3: Monday, February 23, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Many Nations Longhouse
Focus on: Increasing the impact of UO’s research, scholarship, creative inquiry, and expanding graduate education.
Food and drink will be provided and no RSVP is required. You are welcome to come for all or part of the session.
Faculty, staff, and students from across campus are working on creating this plan, and they need your input and expertise in the process. Your participation will enable us to determine how we can best use our resources to serve our students, conduct our research, and serve our community. Please come to share your insights.
To learn more about the Strategic Planning Process, the university’s Competitive Excellence plan, future workshops, and/or “comment on-line,” visit the Office of the Provost website and click on the Strategic Planning Tab.
We very much look forward to our work together during the strategic planning process.
All the best,
Frances Bronet
Acting Provost
Robert Kyr
Senate President
Another strategic plan? How many strategic plans have our administrators written in the last 20 yrs? I (a faculty member) have been part of writing or reviewing four and I know of at least two others before the current effort. Not one was implemented. When will our overpaid visionless administrators cease wasting everyone’s time and stop spending scarce university funds in pursuit of a joke document that will be DOA? Isn’t the list obvious? 1) lower class sizes; 2) hire more TTF; 3) fund more GTFs/grad students; 4) build new classrooms; 5) stop underwriting athletics; 6) raise faculty salaries to 95% of our comparators; 7) cease building non-academic vanity projects (e.g., SRC, EMU and sports complexes); 8) rebuild the research infrastructure; 9) start treating University employees with respect and 10) find administrators with leadership skills and an academic vision and get rid of the rest. There, the list is done. No need to waste one more second on this. Stop goofing off and get to work administrators. And if this list is too long for our administrators and BoT members to digest, how about this slogan: UO ACADEMICS: FIRST NOT LAST, FOR A CHANGE. Are you listening Chuck? Do you care what we think?
Congratulations for the best written and most futile comment of the month. Contact the UO M Public Relations office for your UO Matters coffee cup.
Send it to Chuck with the caveat that he must use it to drink his morning java to remind him that even well-meaning autocrats do more harm than good. Charge the postage to my ASA account.
Sorry, but Brad Shelton has already swept up your ASA balance to pay for stuff like Dana Altman’s lawyers.
Actually, that rumor – which I’ve now heard from several sources – seems to be false.
Presumably Doug Park will pay for Altman’s lawyers with our students’ tuition money.
Chuck wasn’t appointed to listen. He has never really cared what faculty think or what they say about what he thinks. The coup is long over minus some public records revelations, but it’s imaginable that the paper shredders went into overdrive last week. Good luck and be safe out there.