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Oregonian: Bumbling decisions by UO leaders may lead to good laws

On the editorial page, here: Bipartisanship isn’t dead in the Oregon Legislature. It just needs a good motivator sometimes. So in that sense, the University of Oregon has unwittingly helped encourage good public policy in its bumbling and insensitive handling of a March 2014 report that three UO basketball players…

AAUP threatens UIUC with censure over firing of Prof Salaita for “incivility”

Colleen Flaherty has the story in InsideHigherEd, here. A snippet: There’s been no shortage of criticism, both formal and informal, of how the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign handled the withdrawn faculty appointment of Steven Salaita last summer. (The university has a substantial number of supporters who say it was…

Today: Last chance to run for Senate, committees

4/27/2015 update:

To: University Campus Community

From: Robert Kyr, University Senate President

RE: Please Sign Up for Senate & Committee Service—

Final Deadline: MONDAY, April 27, 2015

I am writing with a last reminder that Monday, April 27 is the deadline to sign up for Senate and Committee service through the following qualtrics survey:

University Senate and Committee Nominations Survey 2015

Advertising Prof Deb Morrison uses Journalism faculty meeting to accuse Harbaugh of cyberbullying

I wasn’t there, but I’ve received a few emails from Journalism faculty, telling me that Professor of Advertising Deb Morrison used the occasion of a Friday J-School faculty meeting with UO’s VP for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh to assert that I was engaged in cyberbullying. The official .gov definition…

Counseling Center Director Kerr exposes student records because she cares

Article by Pulitzer Prize-winning Oregonian journalist Rich Read, here. The State Legislature is doing its best to clean up the mess created by the UO General Counsel’s office and Counseling Center Director Shelly Kerr when she gave Jane Doe’s counseling reports to the GC: A lawmaker who led the Oregon Senate to…

Coltrane sidesteps Senate on Sexual Assault Advisory Council

Coltrane’s call for nominations is here: Call for nominations to new Sexual Assault Advisory Council 04/22/15 As part of the comprehensive initiatives to address sexual assault, the university is seeking nominations for a new Sexual Assault Advisory Council. This group will play a key role in advancing the university’s comprehensive plan…