1/31/2012: It’s more than 2 months since the OUS board fired Richard Lariviere. Board Chair Matt Donegan told us repeatedly at the Portland meeting that he was confident the board could find a qualified replacement quickly. But Chancellor George Pernsteiner still has not even been able to assemble a search…
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1/31/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a good story with quotes from several pro-union faculty: “We’re hoping to have the card-check done by the end of the term,” said Deborah Olson, union representative and special education instructor. “We’re actually shooting for a higher number. We want more than 50…
1/31/2012 The website is hard to figure out, no indication who is speaking, but it looks like it will be live at 9:45 today, and you can submit questions here: http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/unionizing-university-oregon/ and listen here: http://www.opb.org/listen
1/30/2012: None of the competing bills get even a mention in this Bill Graves story on the likely legislative agenda. Session starts Wed. Bills must be out of committee in 2 weeks.
1/30/2012: Courtesy of Insidehighered.com, story here: A Springfield professor who shared emails from other faculty leaders with the University of Illinois president’s chief of staff has resigned from the campus senate amid a vote of no confidence by her peers. Tih-Fen Ting, professor in environmental studies on the Springfield campus,…
1/29/2012: Many people are wondering if a faculty union would strengthen or weaken existing faculty governance. For example, could the union write the new UO Constitution into a contract and then have legal recourse if our administration walked all over it? What about the Policy on Policies? One of the…
1/29/2012: Story here, not much new: “We support a worker’s right to organize,” UO spokesman Phil Weiler said. “Our involvement is we just want to make sure we’re providing everybody with factual information so they can make informed decisions, but beyond that we support their right to organize if they…
December’s entire bill is $15,441.41. I’m no art history professor, but I think this page has the most aesthetically appealing redactions, though page 2 has a certain stark symmetry. Per the agreement between UO’s general counsel Randy Geller and CFO Jamie Moffitt, the academic side is on the hook for…
1/28/2012: From an anonymous commenter: Having squandered millions in excessive administrative budget increases, remodeling their offices, golden parachutes, and other brilliant ideas, Johnson Hall’s solution for science startups is to spend against reserves in the humanities and social sciences. Despite having the least funding per student on campus, these programs…
1/28/2012: Berdahl should have announced he was giving Bean an interim appointment ending June 2013. This would satisfy the immediate need for a body to fill out the provost’s suit. It would also leave the deck clear for the next president to do an open search. But no: Colleagues: The…
1/27/2012: Or maybe not. Reality check from Rutgers Who’s right and who’s wrong? The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter, since the administration has lost the trust of its own professors, who routinely perceive it as incompetent, venal and corrupt. As Eaton and her colleagues put it, “The administration…
1/27/2012: things are *really* going to hell. From Susan Palmer in the RG: The Springfield district also had a slight increase in the four-year graduation rate, up a point to 62 percent, even as one of its schools, Springfield High, saw its rate drop by almost 6 points. … The…
1/27/2012: Apparently she’s still on the payroll though – as a special assistant to interim Provost Lorraine Davis. Sure is fun spending other people’s money on your friends. Shades of John Moseley. I don’t envy Moffitt having to do the performance evaluations on the rest of her crew. Lots of…
1/26/2012: Pretty chilling to watch: Video: Nike’s Knight rips PSU Trustees
Update: Geller’s quotes come from here: http://ous.edu/state_board/polipro Check out the board policies and IMD pdf’s – for example athletics. There are all kinds of things UO and OUS pay no attention to in practice. Except when it’s convenient for them to use them against the faculty. 1/26/2012: This will get…