Hannah Golden has the story in the ODE. This quote will resonate with every professor who keeps a box tissues in their desk drawer: Administrative rules requiring faculty to report sexual [assault or harassment] can cause a feeling of discomfort and helplessness for university employees in her position. Stabile quoted…
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Either Senior VP and Provost Scott Coltrane has lost his brain, or he thinks UO’s faculty has lost their memory. From Coltrane’s email today (full text after the break):
The UO was able to provide an across the board and merit process for all faculty and officers of administration in FY14. We are providing another across the board and merit process for FY15.
Thanks Scott, we appreciate this statement, really. But the truth is that “The University” fought the faculty union raise proposals long and hard, then bought us off with a $350 goat. And now Coltrane wants to take credit for the little bit of merit Gottfredson, Geller and Sharon Rudnick finally agreed to? Shame.
Really Scott? Not a word about the fact the faculty union contract requires that you implement these raises, or about the fact that the Lariviere plan, which you supported publicly and were prepared to implement as CAS Dean in 2009, and for which you had the funds, and for which you gave me the detailed spreadsheets for (OK, only after a public records request), would have meant raises sufficient to get UO within spitting distance of our AAU peers?
Come on Scott, you’ve got the permanent provost job now, you’re a better person than this, aren’t you? Because “The University” sure needs one.
Coltrane’s full email below:
Or something like that. NPR story here. IRS 990 here. Wow, ETS is a pretty profitable non-profit, for some people:
No comment yet on the University Board of Trustees website. Oh, wait, that would be President Vladimir Putin of Russia, firing Professor Andrei Zubov of MGIMO University in Moscow. Zubov compared Putin’s invasion of the Crimea with the Anschluss. From the Moscow Times, via the NY Times.
Regular readers may remember that I filed an ethics complaint with the Oregon State Bar about Randy Geller and Sharon Rudnick last year. Denied. Oh well, at least they did a thorough investigation, right? Well, now it turns out that Bar’s ethics committee is hilariously incompetent. They just tried to put…
Nick Budnick has the story in the Oregonian, here. If you think UO’s internal fights about Espy and RIGE are bad, read the comments to his story! In other news, Betsy Hammond reports that OSU has hit it’s $1B fundraising target early: The land grant university had set a goal…
AD Rob Mullens won’t renew the contract of Pat Kilkenny buddy and women’s basketball coach Paul Westhead. We’ve been paying him $650K – and his contract let him live in LA half the year: Will his replacement be a man or a woman? Andy Greif has some guesses in the…
Andy Greif has the details in the Oregonian. Maybe he should try the Urban Farm? The UO student government pays the Ducks about $1.6M for tickets and then gives them to students – but apparently $0 is too high a price for basketball. Altman’s contract pays him a bonus for…
From P.J. O’Rourke, just in time for the UO Senate debate on the Academic Freedom Policy, March 12. Apparently some court in Ohio upheld a law requiring fact-checks on free speech. The SCOTUS is going to decide if they should hear the case and get in a few laughs mocking…
Scott Jaschik has the data, at InsideHigherEd. UO’s administrative salaries look pretty generous in comparison to other public PhD granting schools – and that’s not counting the golden parachute deals UO hands out like popcorn. At many public universities these are illegal. Bob Berdahl got in quite a bit of…
Good news from the UO Foundation. Their 13.8% return on endowment investments last fiscal year was in the top quartile for college endowments. Around the O has the story, here.
It’s very promising to finally hear some non-confrontational talk from UO’s leadership about the positive effects of the faculty union: UO full, associate and assistant professors make an average of $90,000 — $20,000 less than the AAU average, according to 2012-13 data from UO Office of Institutional Research. … Coltrane said that…
3/4/2014 update: I received an email from UO Trustee and ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz, asking me to correct this post. Here is the relevant part of his message. Professor Harbaugh, I am writing to ask you to correct your factually inaccurate blog post, “UO Trustee Sam Dotters-Katz blames…”. Below are…
Just one. Is that too much to ask? Gottfredson and Coltrane’s latest org chart is here: The next Senate meeting is 3/12. Will someone please nominate someone for this prestigious career advancing award? Anyone?
2/28/2014 update: The word down at the faculty club breakfast buffet is increasing dismay over President Gottfredson’s dismissive response to the Blonigen report, particularly that word “endorsing”. 2/21/2014 update: President Gottfredson and Provost Coltrane have now posted their response to the Blonigen report, here. While they now acknowledge the need…