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9/19/2011: From the ODE Franklin Bains article: – Last year, when the state government was looking through proposals to fix the ailing public higher education system, students in Oregon — including University students — roundly condemned University President Richard Lariviere’s plan, which wanted to use a mix of public and…

Take the booze bus

9/18/2011: The just released campus livability working group report is here. Joe Moseley’s HotTopics blog has some good comments, here. And Ed Russo has a long story in the RG – part of a series – on the impact of student partying on the neighborhoods south and west of campus.…

NCAA officially announces UO recruiting is under investigation

9/17/2011: In the Oregonian: Mullens pledged full cooperation with the NCAA and said the University has retained outside counsel (Bond, Schoeneck and King) to conduct an independent assessment of the football program’s use of outside recruiting services. Once completed, that report will be made public. Yes, we are paying “The…

UO raises in news

9/16/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian on the UO raises: The report explains the UO jumped at the chance earlier this year to raise salaries and protect quality at a time when state support keeps shrinking. The university was careful to avoid merit or across-the-board pay increases, said Russ Tomlin, …

effective giving

9/16/2011: From the RG. This is a very smart gift: A University of Oregon graduate is donating $5 million to provide scholarships to a group that she says is often overlooked — the children of middle class families. “I wanted to help Oregonians caught in the middle,” alumna and longtime…

Staff settles with OUS

From the SEIU site. These are key elements of the proposed settlement, worked about between SEIU bargainers and Vice Chancellor Jay “no furloughs for me” Kenton: My understanding is that the staff now gets to vote on whether or not to accept this. • All workers will receive a 1.5% cost-of-living…

UO Public records office to waive first $200 of fees for public interest requests

9/15/2011: Liz Denecke of the UO Public Records Office has agreed to waive the first $200 in fees for “public interest” records requests. This will include requests from the press, and new media such as UO Matters. The new policy should be announced at their website here shortly and it…

PLC demolition begins!

9/14/2011: Provost Jim Bean announced yesterday that his last official act would be the destruction of the much hated PLC office building – “brick by goddamn brick, if necessary”. Work began this morning: Celebrating profs down at the faculty club cheered the news that they would be housed in tents…

Will UO staff strike the first week of classes?

9/14/2011: A non-random sample says yes. They don’t buy Pernsteiner and Kenton’s call for “shared sacrifice”. Does anyone recall any previous staff strikes? This Greg Bolt story repeats the stories about UO raises, does not mention Lariviere’s overtime adjustments or the benefits and retroactive benefits the OUS bosses got. There’s…