3/14/2012: Comments welcome.
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3/13/2012: From the United Academics Faculty Union website: We are VERY pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 13, United Academics filed union authorization cards – signed by a clear majority of UO tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and research faculty – with the state Employment Relations Board (ERB). This is an important…
3/13/2012: Always a thrilling topic. This Emily Schiola story in the ODE argues UO has overcharged the student government by $100,000 on overhead rates. Here’s a little history. The assessment on the student government ASUO expenditures (Incidental Fees) has been increasing from 2% to 7%. Athletics pays 3%, nominally. Their…
3/12/2012: Word is that the card check is done, and the cards will be submitted to the ERB tomorrow.
3/12/2012: Complaint against DPS to be filed over cell phone confiscation. Becky Metrick has the story in the ODE, and some great quotes – one arguing confiscation was probably OK, then this: In Schlossberg’s case, U.S. District Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin determined that the Fourth Amendment protects privacy if that…
Update: response from ERB: No, the names of those signing the cards are not public record. See OAR 115-025-0020. Sandra Elliott, ERB 3/11/2012: I’ve got in a request to the ERB, but if you have info please post a comment. Important to understand how law professors or TTF in general…
Rob Mullens and his pals in the AD roll the students for $2 million a year to pay for the athlete-only Jock Box tutoring, $1.5 million for secret overhead subsidies, and even $75,000 for Chip Kelly’s lawyer. But now they’re going to give away $25,000 in free student tickets to…
3/11/2012: Andy Stahl is running against Pete Sorensen for South Eugene Lane County commissioner. It’s district 3 – yes, even if you live in Eugene you vote for a county commissioner. The election is May15th, ballots are mailed out in about 6 weeks. It’s a nonpartisan position, so no primary.…
3/11/2012: Whole letter here, well worth reading: In the worst instances, universities with local boards meander toward excellence, if they are lucky. They often must accommodate the tastes of local board members while trying to execute longer term plans. My experience with a local board and with the NCAA leads…
and their higher education reporter Bill Graves. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Graves to write something on George Pernsteiner’s perks or top 5 PERS beneficiary Dave Frohnmayer. His hatchet is for people like Lariviere and Berdahl who dare to disturb Oregon’s insider politics. I am not defending PERS tier…
Word down at the faculty club is that the union now has more than the needed cards – 50% of the TTFs, NTTFs, and ORs – and plans to turn them in to the state ERB next friday. The number of tenure track faculty is considerably lower than they had…
Roughly two-thirds of presidents over all said they believed the past year’s scandals had “hurt the reputation of all higher education, not just the institutions involved,” and an overwhelming majority (86.9 percent) said they did not believe that the presidents of institutions with big-time sports programs were “in control” of…
March 2013: ODE reporter Sam Stites gets UO General Counsel Randy Geller to explain why he thinks the academic side should be happy to pay half the cost of Chip Kelly’s lawyer. Because he usually makes them pay it all: Lawyer Michael Glazier, a former NCAA enforcement staffer, has been providing…
but I kept silent, because I did not own a gun. Then they came for the cell phones … OK, maybe that is a little over the top even for UO Matters. But it’s motivated by an interesting ODE Becky Metrick story about a fist-fight on campus, and what may…
3/7/2012: Just 3 months after he and Matt Donegan fired Lariviere, Pernsteiner now has a job ad posted in the Chronicle. Short version: a) Pernsteiner lets UO keep claim to be flagship AAU and the UO Foundation agrees not to purse public meetings and state audit complaints against him. (Sorry…