5/29/2013: Oh wait, never mind. It’s Randy’s wife Jennifer Geller and the 4-J school board, bargaining with the 4-J teacher’s union.
UO Matters
Resources and news regarding the 2013 legislation to create a UO Board of Trustees. Work in progress, suggestions welcome. Created 5/17/2013. Last updated 5/29/2013: Hot topics:5/29/2013: Kyr and others are testifying in the Ways and Means subcommittee today. Written testimony here. Supposedly there’s video here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/listenset.htm under conference room F.Meanwhile, still…
5/28/2013. Samantha Matsumoto has the story in the ODE on the consultant hired to fix Oregon Hall air quality: “I can’t even get them to talk to me,” Jones said. “I’ve only been here eight months, but there’s a lot that’s happened here before I came that I had nothing…
5/28/2013: Excellent story in the Chronicle. UO’s Econ department has a smaller scale program where honors students do free economic consulting for local government agencies and nonprofits.
5/27/2013: Haven’t seen an announcement about this, but a source sends this notice: As part of Robin’s 5-year Administrative review, she will be giving a campus-wide presentation. That presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge.
5/27/2013: Potential changes in PERS make this workshop a must for all UO faculty. Friday at 8PM, in the Lariviere smoking lounge at the UO Faculty Club. Dave Frohnmayer will open with some advice on how to negotiate a fat golden parachute to supplement PERS. Step #1 is to convince your colleagues you’re…
5/25/2013: From Laura Gunderson in the Oregonian, promoting Donegan’s political ambitions. She pitches his steely stand against the UO faculty and boosters at the Lariviere firing meeting as a plus. Doesn’t mention the public meetings law violations or the secret bathroom caucus where he rallied the board to stand firm…
5/24/2013: The OUS F&A committee has unanimously voted to endorse the tuition increase proposals and send them to the full OUS board for approval in June. Meanwhile Zillow has just increased it’s estimate of the market value of Pernsteiner’s soon to be vacant Treetops mansion to $1.3M. No word on recent…
Updated 5/24/2013: Having fired Karen Sprague for being insufficiently servile, Bean now has a list of replacements. Quality ones, actually. No doubt it’s a lot easier to get good people to apply when they know they’ll be working for Coltrane instead of Bean: Colleagues: We present, for your consideration,…
5/24/2013: Finally some common sense from the group that taught me: On my honor I will do my bestTo do my duty to God and my countryand to obey the Scout Law;To help other people at all times;To keep myself physically strong,mentally awake, and morally straight. I had to lie…
5/23/2013: Samantha Matsumoto has the story in the ODE.
Thursday, 5/23/2013, 8-12 AM, Room 122 Knight Library, open to the public and reporters, free coffee. Bring some donuts.Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae. Check out Luebke’s facebook live-blog on this session…
5/23/2013: I am delighted that W. Andrew Marcus has been appointed as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The next step in the process is to solicit nominations for an Interim Associate Dean for Social Sciences. The interim appointment will begin July 1, 2013 and will run…
5/23/2013: UO is on the verge of being kicked out of the AAU. Meanwhile, the self important pissant jock-sniffers on the NCAA Infractions Committee don’t think the UO President has anything important to do with his time. So they “invite” him to come to their meeting in Indianapolis and explain…
Update: A hearty congratulations to the losers of the Senate and committee elections. Names of the unfortunate winners are posted here. Agenda: Here and below. Legal services, new course approvals, perhaps a motion calling for amendments to SB270 to incorporate the constitution. Regarding the UO Board legislation, SB 270. FAQ here. Live…