The “Security Management Sanction Policy” for Trillium, an Oregon community health plan with about 100,000 members, is at the bottom of this post. Companies like Trillium deal with large amounts of sensitive health data, and under the federal HIPAA rules they must have a policy for disciplining employees who inadvertently or intentionally…
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6/5/2015: Norway drops coal stocks from endowment portfolio Investors who are are investing in sanlam shares, Facebook shares, or in fact any shares will probably be familiar with certain companies dropping stock every so often. This is a common occurrence on the stock market and is something that happens when…
Rich Read of the Oregonian has an excellent report on the BOT committee meeting, here. The UO Senate and UO Law School professors Bonine, Forrell, and Gassama deserve full credit for making long overdue changes in the code, which VP Robin Holmes had been neglecting for years. Not shown in…
6/5/2015 update: The RG editorial board, here:
Prosecutors make right call, DAs won’t charge man who leaked Kitzhaber’s emails:
But a scolding is all Rodgers will get from the governor and the DAs. Brown said she hoped that no criminal charges would be filed. The prosecutors fulfilled that hope, saying in their statement that “justice would not be served” by charging Rodgers.
Meanwhile Interim UO President Scott Coltrane is still refusing to reconsider his decision to fire UO Archives Director James Fox, who simply told his staff to follow standard UO archives procedures when I requested a copy of the UO President’s digital archives.
6/2/2015 update: Governor Brown says Kitzhaber whistleblower prosecution should end
Willamette Week has the story, here:
Gov. Kate Brown says the man who leaked former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails to WW should not face criminal charges.
Brown says she believes state IT manager Michael Rodgers acted to protect public records after Kitzhaber’s office requested in February that about 6,000 of Kitzhaber’s emails be deleted from state computers and based on what she’s read, his actions were not criminal.
“I think it’s fair to say this decision was an extraordinary act made in an extraordinary situation,” Brown tells WW. “It was something he did based on the lack of trust in the system around him. His intentions were good.”
Rodgers went public with his story last week: He first prevented the emails from being deleted, and then copied them and gave them to WW after concluding someone might still try to remove the records from state servers.
Page down for the parallels between Rodgers and UO Archivist James Fox, who has lost his UO job because interim UO GC Doug Park went wacko after he learned that Fox had approved my request for a copy of the UO Presidential Archives, and I posted a “confidential” memo written by former GC Randy Geller advocating the dissolution of the UO Senate.
Interim President Coltrane called Fox’s actions “unlawful” and he has refused to reconsider the firing, despite a petition from 136 UO faculty, an editorial from the RG editorial board, a letter from UO donor Ursula Le Guin, and many other letters in support of Fox including one from the AAUP – Oregon.
Meanwhile Library Dean Adrien Lim and Associate Dean Andrew Bonamici have still not released their sanitized version of the archives, or explained what they are going to do about the many documents on important public matters that have apparently been deleted from UO’s archives by the UO President’s office.
5/27/2015: The man who wouldn’t delete Kitzhaber’s emails, and a UO archives update
Co-Creating Our University through Shared Governance Remarks by Robert Kyr, Outgoing Senate President Delivered on June 4, 2015 to the University of Oregon Board of Trustees Thank you for the opportunity to offer my remarks to you today, as I complete my most recent term as Senate President, having also…
WWeek has the news, here. The RG has an even more disturbing report, here.
Andy and Phyllis Berwick donation $6 million toward construction of the 14,000-square-foot center. Diane Dietz has more in the RG here.
At other universities gifts to the academic side count toward priority points for sports seating. That’s because other universities have athletic programs that try to work for the benefit of academics. Not here at UO. Rob Mullens and Eric Roedl want every dime:
Rich Read in the Oregonian: UO whistleblowers: giving student’s confidential therapy records to campus lawyers felt wrong EUGENE — The executive assistant to the director of the University of Oregon‘s Counseling Center disobeyed instructions last December and showed a therapist a confidential email from their boss. The email’s directions horrified both Karen…
John Orbell is a UO Professor Emeritus of Political Science. The RG has his Op-Ed on UO’s “What the if?” branding campaign, here: How to build a university’s reputation for greatness? The answer is straightforward: Actually be great, and the word will get around. Being great involves a lot more than…
but votes to let her spend more money on consultants. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG here.
Senate Meeting Agenda – June 3, 2015, 2014-2015, Agendas 115 Lawrence, 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 April 15, 2015 2.2 May 13, 2015 2.3 May 20, 2015 3:05 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Report from the Academic Council on Academic Integrity:…
Noah McGraw has an excellent report on the work of Alfredo Burlando, in the Emerald here.
Diane Dietz uses the case of UO’s Lambda Chi to ask these and other questions, here.