4/13/2015: The RG has more, with additional quotes and explanation, here. 4/12/2015: Rich Read has the story in the Oregonian, here: More than 100 University of Oregon faculty members have signed a letter urging reinstatement of an archivist suspended after a records release that UO’s interim president called unlawful. The…
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Posted on request of Marie Vitulli (Math Emerita), link to petition here: Students, faculty, and staff at the University of Oregon (UO) have depended on the computer repair shop at McKenzie Hall to maintain their computer equipment. If the shop closes all UO personnel will have to find lesser qualified…
Rich Read has the story in the Oregonian here, worth reading it all.
President of the Associated Students of UO, that is. The Emerald has the story on the election of UO Economics major Helena Schlegel here.
Salaita is the professor whose job offer from UIUC was revoked by the Board of Trustees, who didn’t like a few of his tweets about Israel and Gaza. I wish the 2PM time didn’t conflict with the start of the faculty union bargaining session.
Video of 4/8/2015 Senate meeting now posted here: Some links to highlights: Coltrane reads Chuck Triplett’s talking points on Senate rules, here. Criticism of gender inclusive bathrooms motion, here. What Coltrane and Lillis are really upset about: the Senate messing with the sports deals, here. John Ahlens gets the first…
4/9/2015 update: All the Tim Clevengers and Tobin Klingers in the world can’t put the UO administration’s broken credibility with the press back together again. Apparently Scott Coltrane can’t either. The Oregonian editorial board’s stinging rebuke to Johnson Hall on their counseling confidentiality debacle is here. Read it all. 4/8/2015:…
Apparently Coltrane sent out emails from his personal account last night, encouraging select faculty to run for the Senate. If you didn’t get the email, I guess your President thinks you’re the wrong sort of person for the Senate. If you want to run anyway, the official link to nominate…
After yesterday’s Senate meeting I thought maybe Johnson Hall would open up a little. So I decided to go to this meeting, announced on Interim President Coltrane’s website: THURSDAY, APRIL 9 9:00 a.m. — President’s Advisory Group on Intercollegiate Athletics Members Faculty: Professor Kim Sheehan, School of Journalism and Communications,…
Rich Read of the Oregonian interviews search Chair Connie Ballmer: … Conceivably, the board could toss out all four finalists and instruct the search committee to conduct another round of recruitment and requests for nominations. But Ballmer said search committee members “feel great” about the current four finalists, and she…
The latest post from $115K PR Flack Tobin Klinger about the faculty union bargaining is now up on AroundThe0. Salary negotiations re-start Friday at 2PM. The union is proposing raises that would finally get us to the Lariviere target. The administration wants to give all the money to people like…
and pile up massive student debt while helping cover his own $309K salary, just in case his wife cuts off the $1.5M subsidy he’s getting from UO undergrad tuition. Story in the Daily Emerald, here. Read about Mr. Moffitt’s previous efforts to figure out how to bring home the bacon…
11/15/2011: From the Washington Post. The president of the University of Maryland established the panel to take control of the athletic department’s budget. The problems at UO seem similar: massive overspending on salaries, chronic deficit, depletion of the reserve funds. Dropping Duck sports – baseball is the obvious candidate –…
Names redacted because I’m sure everyone involved in this lucrative little farce has the best and most earnest intentions. The Assistant VP who wrote it is paid $136,698. From: XXXXXXX XXXX Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 Subject: Operations Announcement – Talent Management Colleagues, I am pleased to share the following…