The Emerald has more on the strike here.
UO Matters
And this despite all the money he let his VP for marketing Carol Keese spend trying to game it:
Q: Are university of oregon administrators overpaid?
Claude: Based on my research, here’s what I found about University of Oregon administrator salaries: …
In summary, while the data doesn’t definitively answer whether UO administrators are “overpaid,” it does show that administrator salaries at UO are nearly at parity with peer institutions (99.4% of AAU averages), while faculty salaries rank at the bottom of comparable universities. This suggests a significant prioritization of administrative compensation over faculty compensation at the University of Oregon.
They want to apply the Chatham House Rule, which would prevent a PI from telling their grant officer, say, “but I just followed the advice I got from my university’s general counsel.”
Sort of reminds me of this classic.Â