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UO Senate meeting, Wed in 128 CHILES

That’s Chiles. Part of the B-School. Across Kincaid from the “Duckstore”, behind the hotdog stand. AVP for Collaboration Chuck Triplett will be taking attendance, so don’t ditch this one. I did a little live-blogging below. Senate Meeting Agenda – October 21, 2015. Agenda  |  Watch Live [Not working] Rm 128, Chiles; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm    Introductory…

Today: UO Senate meets at 3PM. Schill, Freyd, Kyr, Bonine to speak

Post hoc summary: New Senate Pres Randy Sullivan ran a tight meeting. Large turnout, New UO President Mike Schill did not disappoint. Note that this is in the Library browsing room. Professor Freyd’s slides from her 2015 survey of UO campus sexual violence are below. This should be very interesting. Usual live-blog disclaimer:…

Rob Kyr’s remarks on completing 4 tough years of extraordinary university service.

Co-Creating Our University through Shared Governance Remarks by Robert Kyr, Outgoing Senate President Delivered on June 4, 2015 to the University of Oregon Board of Trustees Thank you for the opportunity to offer my remarks to you today, as I complete my most recent term as Senate President, having also…

Be there: Final Senate meeting today, Wed. 3PM. Pres-elect vote, legislation report, gavel to Sullivan, reception for award winners

Senate Meeting Agenda – June 3, 2015, 2014-2015, Agendas 115 Lawrence, 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:00 pm    1.   Call to Order 3:00 pm    2.   Approval of Minutes 2.1      April 15, 2015  2.2      May 13, 2015  2.3      May 20, 2015 3:05 pm    3.   State of the University 3.1       Report from the Academic Council on Academic Integrity:…

Senate approves courses, awards, new grad programs, NCAA and UO history reforms, all by 4:30. Moves on to policies.

To be followed by a reception for Senate award winners Miriam Bolton, Johnny Earl, Michael Dreiling, and Carol Stabile. The next and final Senate meeting will be June 3rd. I might get in a little live-blogging below, or Watch Live, Senate Meeting Agenda – May 27, 2015 2014-2015, Agendas 3:00 pm    1.   Call to…

Senate meets on fac-student engagement, policies, diversity

Senate Meeting Agenda – May 20, 2015 2014-2015 Agendas 115 Lawrence, 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:00 pm    1.   Call to Order 3:00 pm    2.   Approval of Minutes 3:05 pm    3.   State of the University 3:15 pm    4.   New Business 4.1       US14/15-86: Motion to Amend Policy on Faculty-Student Engagement in UO Courses; Alison Schmitke (Undergrad Degree Program Dir,…

Triplett and Coltrane reject Senate legislation wholesale

The letters are nominally from Scott Coltrane, but the metadata says they were written by AVP for Collaboration Chuck Triplett, complete with some interesting grammatical errors. I’ll post more on these in the next few days. From the president.uoregon.edu website: Presidential responses to Senate actions Interim President Scott Coltrane issued the following responses…

Semi-live-blog: Senate to meet on policies, with new Pres Michael Schill to speak at end, reception

Cocktail party version of today’s Senate meeting: Old president Scott Coltrane said no, no, no, no, no, to the Senate legislation on sexual violence prevention and athletics. New President Michael Schill talked to the Senate and answered questions for a good 30 minutes, and didn’t say “Go Ducks” once. He’d been misinformed about…

Today: Last chance to run for Senate, committees

4/27/2015 update:

To: University Campus Community

From: Robert Kyr, University Senate President

RE: Please Sign Up for Senate & Committee Service—

Final Deadline: MONDAY, April 27, 2015

I am writing with a last reminder that Monday, April 27 is the deadline to sign up for Senate and Committee service through the following qualtrics survey:

University Senate and Committee Nominations Survey 2015

TODAY: UO Senate to meet Wed 4/15 on policies, and in executive session

Senate Meeting Agenda – April 15, 2015 2014-2015 Agendas Lawrence, Rm. 115; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm    1.   Call to Order 3:00 pm    3.   State of the University 3.1       Remarks by Robert Kyr, Senate President 3:05 pm    4.   New Business            4.1       Motion (Policy Adoption): Adoption of Policy on Conferral of…

Now w/ video: Coltrane chastises Senate – but Senators not chastened

Video of 4/8/2015 Senate meeting now posted here: Some links to highlights: Coltrane reads Chuck Triplett’s talking points on Senate rules, here. Criticism of gender inclusive bathrooms motion, here. What Coltrane and Lillis are really upset about: the Senate messing with the sports deals, here. John Ahlens gets the first…

UO Senate approves measures on sexual violence prevention, athletics, courses, etc.

Cocktail party version: The Senate votes to: Approve new courses, have the faculty vote on nominees for Faculty Trustee, try and fix the confidential counseling mess, hold the administration’s feet to the fire on sexual violence prevention, tell the Ducks to raise some donations to cut the cost of student football tickets,…

“Not in Our Name”: UO Senate rejects UO admin’s rape lawsuit response. Will require payments from athletics for academic purposes. Senate will elect NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative. All unanimous.

Good turnout, good decisions. Now we just have to get President Coltrane to implement them. Senate Meeting Agenda – March 4, 2015 – Watch Live, 2014-2015, Agendas 3:00 pm    1.   Call to Order 3:00 pm    2.   Approval of Minutes  January 21, 2015 3:05 pm    3.   State of the University 3.1       Remarks by Interim President Coltrane…