8/28/2015: In the Emerald, here: A recent study by the University’s Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup found several campus buildings will experience moderate to great damage in a massive earthquake. Naturally, due to the danger that’s bound to ensue, students must be prepared for the earthquake and potential impending damage. Investing…
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8/27/2015: I was told there were about 20 people in line at one point this morning and it’s not just drop off the book and run – expect our new president to ask you some questions, and answer some. The faculty are loving this. Who would have guessed that professors like to talk…
These would have been pretty useful during the faculty union bargaining and I imagine they would still be to SEIU. They haven’t been updated since the end of 2014, and it looks like they won’t be until the end of September, at which point they’ll be 9 months behind. The September…
It’s not going to go well. Moffitt was a compromise internal hire, after an external search went bad. His academic record was mediocre, and he has not been a success as dean. This 2013 NY Times story, in which he bragged about lucrative revenue from undergraduate courses and “living in a business school…
Marc Tracy’s NY Times puff piece carefully avoids the interesting questions: Maryland is trying to emulate the University of Oregon, riding the largess of a multibillion-dollar apparel company to athletic prominence. Athletic departments throughout the country watched with envy in recent years as Phil Knight, a founder of Nike and an Oregon alumnus, donated hundreds…
Before we get to the reconciliation, let’s have some truth: UO’s VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes was in the loop from the beginning on the March 2014 basketball rape allegations, and she was a strong defender of Mike Gottfredson’s efforts to hide the situation from the campus and give coach Dana…
In January Interim President Scott Coltrane claimed that my request to the UO Archives reference desk for copies of the UO Presidential Archives led to the “unlawful release” of thousands of pages of documents – most notably a memo from then UO General Counsel Randy Geller to then Interim UO…
A dead economist once wrote: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” or to lower wages. While it is easy and legal for a geographically isolated university like,…
Former UO VPFA Frances Dyke told the faculty – and State Senator Floyd Prozanski and the state legislature – that a sworn and armed UO Police Department would probably save money, compared to contracting with the Eugene PD. She lied. Actually it’s roughly doubled their budget, to $5.6M last year. But hey, they’re…
Le Gardien de Registre a le rapport ici. Plus dans Paris Match: Ils s’appellent Alek Skarlatos et Spencer Stone. Ils se connaissent depuis l’enfance. Ils sont devenus aujourd’hui de véritables héros salués comme tels par le président des États-Unis, Barack Obama, et le chef d’État français, François Hollande. Les deux…
Update: Say what you will about the Duck Athletic Department poaching gifts from the academic side – at least they make sure the donors are good for the money first. Jeff Manning has the latest on PSU here: When an obscure technology entrepreneur approached Portland State University earlier this month promising a record anonymous…
8/21/2015: There is a helpful chart comparing the proposals on the SEIU webpage here. My understanding is that the arbitrator now picks between the proposals, and if the SEIU bargaining team is not satisfied they can then give 30 days notice of a strike, which would likely start during move-in week at UO.
8/14/2015: Still no contract for UO’s staff
8/21/2015: Diane Dietz of the RG has more, here: UO psychology professor Jennifer Freyd, who pushed to make the UO counseling center records private, said she was “very, very pleased” with the Education Department’s guidance. “They’ve gone a long way to clarifying the situation,” Freyd said Thursday. “The only way people…
When Pernsteiner’s OUS died its well deserved death on 6/30/2015 they took down their website and all the archived meeting materials and financial reports vanished from the internets – except for what the wayback machine captured, here. They sent the files to the Oregon State Archives, which apparently has no plans to…