Coltrane’s not giving our faculty union any credit for these raises, but at least he’s not blaming the union, so I guess that’s progress: To: All Faculty From: Scott Coltrane, Provost and Senior Vice President Date: November 2, 2015 Re: FY 2016 Compensation Increases I would like to share with you the…
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SAIL is UO’s largest faculty led volunteer program. Faculty teach low-SES and first generation HS students in free week long summer day-camps on the UO campus, to show them what college is like and how they can succeed at it. Last summer we had 10 camps, 200+ students, and ~100…
Update: The Chronicle’s report is here: … In a written statement to The Chronicle, Oregon’s vice president for student life, Robin Holmes, said that the university “was committed to providing Ms. Morlok with a supportive work environment,” but that she had chosen not to accept offers of “alternative workplace scenarios.”…
Looking for some substance? Try this report on Duck football rape and the first amendment instead.
Dear Campus Community, As I enter my fifth month as president of this great university, I feel a sense of excitement and urgency; excitement for your enthusiasm to move this university forward and urgency to act and realize our aspirations. I am eager to share my vision and plans for…
Now that’s the last thing I expected from “AroundtheOops”. Has this whole damn university suddenly gone pinko? Where’s Sharon Rudnick when we need her? It sure didn’t take Kyle Henley and Greg Bolt long to make UO’s Official Organ way more interesting. Essential, even. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be cutting into my…
That’s the solid news from down at the faculty club this afternoon: I write to you today with mixed emotions. On November 20, I will leave the University of Oregon to accept a position as the Vice President of Brand, Creative, B2C Strategy & Integrated Marketing at Cambia Health Solutions in Portland. We…
10/29/2015:
This morning I drove up to Salem for the first meeting of this task force. I’m still a little bitter that Michael Kron didn’t add a slot for “Obsessed public records blogger” and appoint me, but with Les Zaitz and Jeb Bladine, and what seems to be a lot of support from AG Ellen Rosenblum and Governor Kate Brown, it seems pretty clear that this group will come up with a substantial bit of legislation for fixing some of the weaknesses in Oregon’s Public Records Law.
I did hear a few of the usual complaints from some members of the task force and the audience about the “burden of public records compliance”. It’s funny how agencies that spend far more on PR flacks tasked with making the boss look good than they do on real transparency can say that with a straight face.
There’s still plenty of risk that the lobbyists and legislators will figure out how to use this as an opportunity to weaken our already weak law, and I still think the first thing to do would be for the AG to write some hard-hitting PR opinions, and set a good example for the county DAs. But this is obviously a good faith effort to get it right, with lots of political support.
Speaking of District Attorneys, one simple interim step would be for the DOJ to start collecting and posting the DA’s decisions on public records petitions. From what I’ve seen, DA compliance with the PR law is spotty.
10/21/2015: AG to try again on public records reform – or more stalling?
Reporter Noah McGraw has the scoop in the Daily Emerald here on the cost so far. Excellent reporting, read it all there, here’s a snippet: … UO also has its own attorney fees. UO was represented by Eugene firm Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick. The total of all their approved fees is $394,925.70,…
The NYT has the report on Harvard Law’s efforts to put its entire law library online, here. Carl Malamud is the man who saved my ass after I illegally posted the Oregon DOJ’s Public Records and Meetings Manual online, as explained here, with video courtesy of the late JQ Johnson. Malamud is now…
Update: Some brief notes from the meeting today: The PAGIA has not yet met this year. Gleason believes Kim Sheehan (Advertising) is still the chair. Gleason gives an interesting report on some of the topics that he and the PAC-12 and FBS conferences have and will be voting on (including many of…
HOW FOUR FOOTBALL PLAYERS BEAT THE RAP AND CHANGED FREE SPEECH IN OREGON by Susan Elizabeth Shepard, in SBNation: http://www.sbnation.com/2015/10/28/9620514/the-state-v-robertson Amazing reporting and legal commentary. Read it all, this is just a snippet: That Oregon has a lot of strip clubs is well known to any resident. Why here? Locals understand…
“Around the O” is the official UO blog that Bob Berdahl, Scott Coltrane, and Jim Bean paid former Journalism Dean Tim Gleason to start, to counteract the baleful influence of UO Matters: Gleason took the money, but he didn’t deliver: But now it’s all good. Instead of Gleason, UO has a new…
Elizabeth Hayes has the news in the Portland Business Journal, here. Just kidding about the stadium, they want the money for research and teaching. This comes just after OHSU matched Phil Knight’s $500M gift for cancer research with private money plus $200M from the state legislature. The last time UO got…
10/26/2015: Noah McGraw has the news in the Emerald, here. The process was considerably more open than that which led to the appointment and reappointment of the faculty trustee, Susan Gary. Good for ASUO. Not sure if the legislature has confirmed this yet.
9/25/2015: UO Student Trustee Helena Schlegel resigns from Board on principle