1. Salaries 2. Recruitment of more faculty 3. Infrastructure for Academics 4. Cleaning out Johnson Hall 5. Buying uomatters some scotch for crying out loud.
Anonymous
05/19/2012
Dog list
1. Increasing Graduate Student Research at this Research University 2. Infrastructure for Academics 3. Scaling our TTF faculty more appropriately 4. Move towards a more research, experiential, and interdisciplinary mode of earning credits towards an undergraduate degree 5. More pubs on campus (hell, any pub on campus). 6. There is no six, dogs can’t count to six, as a result dogs do not get salary raises …
Oryx
05/17/2012
Solving the startup funds issue in the sciences is crucial. Hiring, and planning future hiring, has become difficult and messy. As most people probably know, historically, the vice president for research’s office has provided funds — an investment that’s paid back by the overhead on grants. The VPRs office, for reasons I won’t list, doesn’t have the funds to do this anymore. CAS & departments do have funds, but it seems ‘wrong’ to take money from the students + teaching pot and use it for research / lab outfitting unless there’s a clear plan for how that money will be paid back. As far as I can tell (asking many people), no such plan exists. This is not good! Even hiring at normal faculty replacement levels in the sciences is now grueling; any hope of expansion to match student enrollment would be (I think) impossible, or at best, so convoluted that it would cause big problems later on.
Anonymous
05/17/2012
Develop an academic plan for basic academic priorities, with a corresponding budget, and stick to it.
Golden Duck and Wilbur
05/17/2012
With the ever increasing number of students and the much more modest increases in academic support we are indeed headed for a crisis; I fear more that we will continue to pretend that there is no problem and the deterioration will continue slowly, yet with ever-deeper intensity until like Greece, we reach the stage were we can no longer support the status quo or the remedies.
As long as every more money is spend on administration, both the JH and in the admin of the Schools and Colleges, and not on instruction it is hard to see any ray of hope.
Something has to be done to reverse this trend before it is too late. if we do not we will quickly sink to the level of PSU or SOSU and OSU will indeed become the undeniable ‘flagship’.
-so opines the Golden Duck on behalf of barnyard animals everywhere; and Wilbur
Anonymous
05/17/2012
Bring Marianne Nichols back to develop the financial plan. Beg her, if necessary.
Anonymous
05/17/2012
Great idea, but won’t happen. They need to find a 600 hours job for Tomlin.
Anonymous
05/17/2012
#1: Find someone other than Jim Bean to head your transition team.
Anonymous
05/17/2012
Undergraduate education. We need to pay more attention to how our bread is buttered. Besides, it’s the right thing to do. We can either get ahead of the trends or we can let bean-counting accreditors, wide-eyed policy entrepreneurs, online rivals (both for-profits and now the Ivy League), and $1 trn in collective US student loan debt force our hand and change the way we teach and do research.
Anonymous
05/17/2012
Awesome0’s list is spot on target, except that the first priority should be:
Eliminate the Athletic Dept subsidies, including making Athletics pay at least the same overhead rate as other campus auxiliaries. Then start making Athletics pay an additional percentage of their income to the UO academic mission. After all, if Chip Kelley can get a percentage of the football gate receipts why not the UO academic side too?
1. Salaries
2. Recruitment of more faculty
3. Infrastructure for Academics
4. Cleaning out Johnson Hall
5. Buying uomatters some scotch for crying out loud.
Dog list
1. Increasing Graduate Student Research at this Research University
2. Infrastructure for Academics
3. Scaling our TTF faculty more appropriately
4. Move towards a more research, experiential, and interdisciplinary mode of earning credits towards an undergraduate degree
5. More pubs on campus (hell, any pub on campus).
6. There is no six, dogs can’t count to six, as a result dogs do not get salary raises …
Solving the startup funds issue in the sciences is crucial. Hiring, and planning future hiring, has become difficult and messy. As most people probably know, historically, the vice president for research’s office has provided funds — an investment that’s paid back by the overhead on grants. The VPRs office, for reasons I won’t list, doesn’t have the funds to do this anymore. CAS & departments do have funds, but it seems ‘wrong’ to take money from the students + teaching pot and use it for research / lab outfitting unless there’s a clear plan for how that money will be paid back. As far as I can tell (asking many people), no such plan exists. This is not good! Even hiring at normal faculty replacement levels in the sciences is now grueling; any hope of expansion to match student enrollment would be (I think) impossible, or at best, so convoluted that it would cause big problems later on.
Develop an academic plan for basic academic priorities, with a corresponding budget, and stick to it.
With the ever increasing number of students and the much more modest increases in academic support we are indeed headed for a crisis; I fear more that we will continue to pretend that there is no problem and the deterioration will continue slowly, yet with ever-deeper intensity until like Greece, we reach the stage were we can no longer support the status quo or the remedies.
As long as every more money is spend on administration, both the JH and in the admin of the Schools and Colleges, and not on instruction it is hard to see any ray of hope.
Something has to be done to reverse this trend before it is too late. if we do not we will quickly sink to the level of PSU or SOSU and OSU will indeed become the undeniable ‘flagship’.
-so opines the Golden Duck on behalf of barnyard animals everywhere; and Wilbur
Bring Marianne Nichols back to develop the financial plan. Beg her, if necessary.
Great idea, but won’t happen. They need to find a 600 hours job for Tomlin.
#1: Find someone other than Jim Bean to head your transition team.
Undergraduate education. We need to pay more attention to how our bread is buttered. Besides, it’s the right thing to do. We can either get ahead of the trends or we can let bean-counting accreditors, wide-eyed policy entrepreneurs, online rivals (both for-profits and now the Ivy League), and $1 trn in collective US student loan debt force our hand and change the way we teach and do research.
Awesome0’s list is spot on target, except that the first priority should be:
Eliminate the Athletic Dept subsidies, including making Athletics pay at least the same overhead rate as other campus auxiliaries. Then start making Athletics pay an additional percentage of their income to the UO academic mission. After all, if Chip Kelley can get a percentage of the football gate receipts why not the UO academic side too?