That’s the rumor from the bartender mixing the G&T’s down at the Faculty Club pool. Senate to meet today at 3PM, 4/30 in 175 LAW. Note the room change. Agenda here. Subjects include committee restructuring and Gottfredson’s IAC shutdown. Basic shared governance stuff, we’ll need a quorum so show up!…
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Update: The Trustees have now posted detailed information on their website regarding UO’s capital construction priorities, here. Oh wait, that’s President Gottfredson and the UO Board of Trustees Finance Committee. The notice of meeting and agenda required by Oregon law is here. Meanwhile the Senate Budget Committee is still not…
I’m thinking Mandarin has to be the hardest possible test for the effectiveness of online education, and Laura Frazier has the story in the Oregonian on the unsurprising results.
This looks to be great news for UO financial transparency. The KU internal audit site is here. Sent on behalf of Jamie Moffitt: Dear Colleagues – I am pleased to announce that Ms. Brenda Muirhead has accepted my offer to serve as the University of Oregon’s new Chief Auditor. She will…
UO GC and Board of Trustees Counsel Randy Geller tried to sneak a hack-job delegation of authority policy past the university and the board over spring break. He got caught, the board rejected it, and they called for the Senate to provide input on a new policy for adoption in June. The Senate…
While some said the union would be the death of the Senate, actually I think the union has strengthened it. And I’ll give Gottfredson credit too – he or his policies get beat up at every meeting, but he takes shared governance seriously, and keeps coming back. The Senate has…
Inside Higher Ed has the story, here. UO’s Confucius Institute is here.
From a Statesman-Journal story, here.
Greg Bolt was a longtime reporter for the Register Guard. He had the UO beat before Diane Dietz, and he wrote wonderful exposees like these: Feb 2011: Pernsteiner’s TreeTops mansion: Perched on a hill in one of Eugene’s toniest neighborhoods is the one-time mansion known as Treetops. Once the home of…
4/26/2014: That would be the University of Missouri, story here. Meanwhile here at UO, our administration is still trying to write a two paragraph mission statement. Interestingly, the UM plan is focused on increasing incentives to create intellectual property, by making it easier for faculty to own patents and start…
For the University of Illinois – Chicago. Story here: Highlights of the contract, retroactive to Aug. 16, 2012: ■ Faculty will get retroactive pay raises averaging 6.75 percent for the past two years plus a 1-percent raise on top of a campus wage increase next year. The campus wage increase…
Today’s Register Guard has an op-ed on Academic Freedom from the presidents of the UO graduate student union (David Craig), the UO faculty union (Michael Dreiling), and the UO staff union (Carla McNeely): On April 9, the elected UO Senate unanimously approved a statement on academic freedom that is among the…
I’m giving a brief presentation on student debt tomorrow. If you have any interesting links or thoughts, please add in the comments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-college-is-not-a-losing-investment/2014/04/24/b888eac8-cbd2-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html http://qz.com/201256/us-student-debt-isnt-as-scary-as-everyone-says/ http://projectonstudentdebt.org/initiative_view.php?initiative_idx=6
4/24/2014: This is a stunning development from the NCAA, reported by Rachel Bachman in the WSJ. It must be bitter news for UO’s FAR Jim O’Fallon, who has spent his professional life taking away kids athletic scholarships for just this sort of thing: Other changes that the five power conferences are likely to…
The UO Senate voted 2 weeks ago for an open search for the FAR, for faculty participation in reviews, and against letting current FAR Jim O’Fallon to stay on any longer unless he gets reviewed. Today President Gottfredson sent the Senate this non-response: From: President Gottfredson To: Margaret Paris Date: April…