12/15/2011: I’m no anthropologist, but I think the theory is that gifts don’t mean much when the giver has first tried to sell them, and failed, and then tries to sell them to you for half-off. Email from the UO Athletic department to UO employees: Oregon DUCKMAIL The Official Source…
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12/15/2011: From the Oregonian: One day after telling state agencies to suspend all hiring except for the most essential jobs, Gov. John Kitzhaber’s office posted a new job for an “early learning system director.” On Tuesday, the governor and legislative leaders agreed that the state would freeze hiring and stop…
12/14/2011: Kitzhaber’s just full of good news for UO lately. From the RG: Oregon universities, including the University of Oregon, will abide by Gov. John Kitzhaber’s call for a state hiring freeze while lawmakers wrestle with expected declines in tax revenue. Presidents of all seven state universities are expected to…
for leadership at UO for the next few years will have two parts: a) Did you fight back when OUS fired Lariviere? b) Can you get over it already, and put in the effort to get UO back on track? Lots of unpaid committee work coming up for the faculty…
12/14/2011: That’s my read of the recent chatter. We wish him well, happy to write a glowing letter.
12/14/2011. That would be OSU President Ed Ray. From the Corvallis Gazette Times: OSU will, however, raise its faculty pay by 4 percent starting in January 2012, as a means of keeping good faculty and attracting top-notch new faculty members. The faculty also will receive pay raises in January 2013.…
in New York. 12/13/2011. From the NYT: [James H. Simons] joined two governors, David A. Paterson and Andrew M. Cuomo, in pressing the Legislature to shore up the finances of the State University of New York, the parent system of Stony Brook, in part by raising tuition. He made it…
12/11/2011: Under the NCAA cartel, none of his players will get a dime. Fascinating, carefully researched story by Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian on how Mike Bellotti came to be collecting $490,000 a year in PERS, most of which will ultimately be paid by Oregon taxpayers: The statutes governing PERS…
12/11/2011: Greg Bolt has a long story in the RG on how the Lariviere firing has forged new leadership and solidarity at UO: History professor Ian McNeely, a member of the UO Senate’s executive committee, said it has been inspiring to see how people have put aside differences to work…
which is it? “Who should Berdahl fire?” or “Whom should Berdahl fire?” Thanks.
(interim). And then appoints Allyn Ford as chair of search committee for permanent President, with no consultation with the faculty. Throw the dog a bone? Aren’t we still paying off his Ford Alumni Center debt? The gift that keeps on taking. Berdahl’s opinions on OUS board members like Allyn Ford…
12/9/2011: 5:11PM. The board tricked us and is doing this meeting in person. They also started with an executive session, not announced in advance. Web link here. They are currently talking about how great Berdahl is. Now they are laughing, voting. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, …12/8/2011: Does anyone know…
12/9/2011: That’s the memorable phrase from AG Kroger’s investigation of Melinda Grier and the UO’s general counsel office after the Bellotti contract farce. Now Randy Geller, the associate counsel of that office at the time, is about to take full control of your legal representation as a UO employee, student,…
12/8/2011 with updates. Maybe President Lariviere made a mistake when he fired Melinda Grier. Her longtime assistant and now GC Randy Geller is about to cost us a lot more than the $2.3 million payoff to Bellotti. Geller’s proposed new policy giving him total control over access to legal advice…
12/7/2011: Two years of hard work by the Senate Governance Committee and some administrator(s) from Johnson Hall. Passed by unanimous vote of the Faculty Assembly, after some discussion of the role of NTTFs and adjuncts, and one friendly amendment from chemist Paul Engelking to correct the “half plus one” rule…