8 Responses to President: Faculty complaints about lack of shared governance are preposterous, careless, false, absurd, an insult, a defamatory slur, and demagogy
In retrospect, Dave Frohnmayer is looking a lot better than he did when he was actually Pres of UO.
Management (or “management” for the corporate univesity) at UO is incomparably more centralized now under Schill than it was under Dave. Removing all faculty hiring to the provost office. The rolling takeovers and makeovers of various colleges. Will it come to CAS soon?
It is very unclear that it is accomplishing much, though perhaps it is too soon to tell. Better research fundraising? Better students, e.g. as evidenced by the “metric” of SAT scores? Enrollment? If there is much boasting, I haven’t heard it.
There seems to be ever-more administrative bloat, time-wasting on make-work for the faculty. Some of this, I know, comes from outside factors, e.g. the accrediting agency. I will probably be wasting time soon discussing old documents whose generation was itself a time waster.
The one big accomplishment seems to be getting the Knight campus.
It’s been a long time since I’ve noticed so much grumbling about the UO administration from the faculty. It seems odd, the new Board structure doesn’t seem to have helped, neither does the union. If anything, they may make things more adversarial, with the administration, so far, on the winning side. The Board seems pretty inert except as a rubber stamp.
It is interesting too that the students, or at least the vocal ones, are more testy with the Pres than I can remember in a long time.
With Schill finishing up his third year, perhaps he will be moving on in a year or two. Some people seem to anticipate that waiting things out is the best move. Trouble is, Banavar and Conover may be around longer, and they may be causing a lot of the unhappiness.
Regarding DF’s item 4 concerning a quorum requirement for the Assembly:
This power play was an atrocious insult to the entire UO community. When ca. 500 members of the Assembly gathered for a meeting which had been called exactly in accord with the UO governing document (Senate Charter), DF announced that the meeting was not an Assembly and promptly left the room, abandoning his responsibility as President to chair that meeting. The quorum law he referred to was conspicuously inappropriate for a body like the Assembly, as, I am sure, he well knew. Saying that its applicability was an AG opinion was simply a way of saying that MG, who was an ex officio member of the AG’s office, did not wish to disagree with him.
Later, The Senate President obtained a fully reasoned statement from the AG’s office in Salem declaring that, unless the Assembly sets a quorum for itself, then the quorum is the body that appears for the meeting.
DF never apologized for this flagrant disregard for the rights of the community that he was paid to serve.
uomatters It's OK to hire your friends, you just can't talk to your friends. – Thursday
the reason why Last time the lead HR position was open, a certain administrator hired their friend as an outside consultant to run... – Thursday
Anonymous Please stop these negative posts about Parker Search. They did a great job helping the Ducks find Willie Taggart. https://www.parkersearch.com/news/taggart-named-university-oregon-head-football-coach – Wednesday
But, since you raised the issues earlier in this forum I would ask two questions: 1) How do they manage... – Wednesday
uomatters ... made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. – Monday
Typical OA Totally believable. After all, you are much too polite and respectful to denigrate anyone. – Monday
Dog What, aren't we already in a new dark age? Is further sinking possible? – Monday
uomatters This post was not meant to denigrate the work of OAs, without whom UO would sink into the abyss of... – Monday
Anas clypeata I see a 0.4% increase in Faculty and a 1.0% increase in the total of the remaining lines. Nice headline,... – Friday
Data So increased the number of OAs within his personal sub-unit from 7 to 16? Do we know what for? – Friday
apt too bad "last hired, first fired" doesn't apply to all these new OA positions. what's up with the growth of... – Friday
Dread OA Roberts Disclaimer: I'm one of the bloated 11%. Can someone provide more background? Is the shrinking proportion of faculty this year... – Friday
Old Gray Mare And that can be done perfectly well without the LMS. Return assignments in a timely manner and teach the class... – Friday
heraclitus That's a fair question, but it would also be good to hear an intellectual justification for _not_ using the LMS... – Thursday
curious duckling Can somebody please provide an intellectual justification for requiring the use of LMS for core ed courses? "1.3 WHEREAS Other... – Thursday
woof On the Internet, on one knows if Dog is joking. – Wednesday
oldtimer Yes, right direction. Would be nice to know details of funding. One of the sleights of administrative hand is to... – Wednesday
Dog And hey, there is actually useful info in the Senate notes, some of which should have been published here as... – Wednesday
Dog well I guess this eliminates all occupants of PLC as surviving members to give grades, I mean really, who is... – Wednesday
honest Uncle Bernie heteronormative, sexist, cis-gendered, patriarchal, trans-phobic white male privileged! Classist and racist too. You need retraining from the equity and confusion... – Friday
former squire Always knew Prof UOM was a closet sexist, er, ah, classy chivalrous gentleman. – Thursday
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In retrospect, Dave Frohnmayer is looking a lot better than he did when he was actually Pres of UO.
Management (or “management” for the corporate univesity) at UO is incomparably more centralized now under Schill than it was under Dave. Removing all faculty hiring to the provost office. The rolling takeovers and makeovers of various colleges. Will it come to CAS soon?
It is very unclear that it is accomplishing much, though perhaps it is too soon to tell. Better research fundraising? Better students, e.g. as evidenced by the “metric” of SAT scores? Enrollment? If there is much boasting, I haven’t heard it.
There seems to be ever-more administrative bloat, time-wasting on make-work for the faculty. Some of this, I know, comes from outside factors, e.g. the accrediting agency. I will probably be wasting time soon discussing old documents whose generation was itself a time waster.
The one big accomplishment seems to be getting the Knight campus.
It’s been a long time since I’ve noticed so much grumbling about the UO administration from the faculty. It seems odd, the new Board structure doesn’t seem to have helped, neither does the union. If anything, they may make things more adversarial, with the administration, so far, on the winning side. The Board seems pretty inert except as a rubber stamp.
It is interesting too that the students, or at least the vocal ones, are more testy with the Pres than I can remember in a long time.
With Schill finishing up his third year, perhaps he will be moving on in a year or two. Some people seem to anticipate that waiting things out is the best move. Trouble is, Banavar and Conover may be around longer, and they may be causing a lot of the unhappiness.
If this makes mention of the Obelisk then its more like circa 2007
Thanks, fixed.
and the obelisk was supposed to be a scale reproduction of this
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/romanurbs/horologium.html
MUOGA
Or Metric if you prefer that over the Pioneer Mother outside
JH
MUOGA
MOTHER, UNIVERSITY, ORGANIZATION, GRANDIOSE, AMAZING
Regarding DF’s item 4 concerning a quorum requirement for the Assembly:
This power play was an atrocious insult to the entire UO community. When ca. 500 members of the Assembly gathered for a meeting which had been called exactly in accord with the UO governing document (Senate Charter), DF announced that the meeting was not an Assembly and promptly left the room, abandoning his responsibility as President to chair that meeting. The quorum law he referred to was conspicuously inappropriate for a body like the Assembly, as, I am sure, he well knew. Saying that its applicability was an AG opinion was simply a way of saying that MG, who was an ex officio member of the AG’s office, did not wish to disagree with him.
Later, The Senate President obtained a fully reasoned statement from the AG’s office in Salem declaring that, unless the Assembly sets a quorum for itself, then the quorum is the body that appears for the meeting.
DF never apologized for this flagrant disregard for the rights of the community that he was paid to serve.