4/25/2012: I’ve written before about AD Rob Mullens’s perverse incentives. Now the word is that the athletic department is having a hard time coming up with the cash to pay for these, and for the coaches’ bonuses. So they are auctioning off the players’ game jerseys, and keeping all the…
UO Matters
Email on 4/25/2012: The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United Academics of the University of Oregon and the University of Oregon is posted on the Human Resources website. http://hr.uoregon.edu/employee-labor-relations/faculty-unionization/memorandum-understanding-collective-bargaining-unit-fa The MOU describes the agreement reached by the United Academics and the University. The bargaining unit agreed to by the…
4/25/2012: Email sent yesterday: This email is being sent to all Optional Retirement Plan (ORP) employees on behalf of the OUS SB 242 Optional Retirement Plan Review Committee. This committee was formed as a result of Senate Bill 242 which requires OUS to review the current ORP plan and make…
4/24/2012 Updated 4/25/2012: Bill Graves story here. Kroger talked the talk on public records, but didn’t deliver. He threatened me for putting the PR manual online, then wrote a series of retrograde public records opinions that set Oregon back 20 years. To cap it off, Jeff Manning’s Oregonian piece today…
4/25/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a piece on the union, Diane Dietz of the RG has more, here. Interestingly, no quotes from Interim Pres Berdahl: “I wouldn’t say it was a change of heart. It’s more an acknowledgement of the bargainers desire to have the one unit,” acting…
Updated 6/3/2012: For this post I will only accept comments that involve questions or answers! This is a resource page with links to information about the UO Faculty Union. It’s meant to be an independent source of information for faculty about the union. Revised as appropriate, suggestions welcome in the…
4/24/2012: An email sent to faculty at 10 AM. I’m stunned. Who will be in the union? Just the people on the Excelsior list? Less the faculty that departments identified as supervisors? Obviously Berdahl made a deal, but what exactly was it, and why did he make it? We’ve filed…
4/23/2012: OUS dockets here, his proposal for responsibilities here. It’s a sham. Sam Stites ODE story here. 100mb mp3 of meeting here.
4/24/2012. UO has put out an RFP to add dual mounts for AR-15’s and shotguns to the DPS Crown Vic Police Interceptor fleet – so far as I can tell they haven’t actually bought the assault rifles yet. I’m sure there will be those in the physics department who will…
From today’s retirement event for CAS Assoc Dean and Chief of Operations Marriane Nicols.
4/23/2012: The current list of Senate committee nominees and instructions for volunteering are here. I believe nominations close tomorrow. Incentives? Rumor down at the faculty club is that the provost will enter all faculty who volunteer for committee service into a raffle for a slightly used beamer.
4/23/2012: From the RG: “To trigger the law, five or more people would have to be present at a gathering where alcohol is being served and where at least two offenses are taking place, such as excessive noise … and public urination, officials said.”
4/23/2012: U of Florida, from Forbes via an anon correspondent, thanks. The crazy part is that, just as at UO, the university could tax athletics to support academics instead of the other way around. (UF does this, but to a very small degree.) It would just take some courage on…
From Diane Dietz in the RG: Variations on the word “collaborate” appear nine times in the committee’s formal “position description and ideal candidate profile.” “It was definitely on purpose,” Oregon University System Vice Chancellor Sona Andrews said. The committee is seeking “someone who can be a real collaborator with the…
From Josephine Woolington in the ODE on a break-in at the Jaqua jock box this morning: Officers responded around 6 a.m. and found the man in the bathroom sitting on the toilet. The officers handcuffed the man and said he thought the building was a nightclub. “Hey, is this where…