I’m guessing there are a lot more emails like this going around, please forward them. My response to Kees is below:
From: [Business school Dean] Kees de Kluyver
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:09 AM
To: LCB Faculty; LCB Staff; LCB OA’s
Cc: Scott Coltrane
Subject: Important matters on agenda for next Wednesday’s (Feb. 12) Senate Meeting
I encourage you to attend the UO Senate meeting this Wednesday, February 12th (3pm, Lawrence 115).
Important items to be discussed include several issues that have been brewing for some time, including motions to force Senate committees to be subject to open meetings rules (see below),
[Kees is completely wrong here. Only a court could force this. The motion is for the Senate to voluntarily decide that some of its committees should open some meetings to the public, just as the Senate has done.]
to reconstitute the Senate Budget Committee by requiring a new election of current Senators,
[Electing Senators to the Senate Budget Committee = bad?]
and an unprecedented proposal to compel the University to redirect funding from Athletics away from various contractual obligations into other proposed uses,
[Wow, that’s a stretch. My read is that the obligations go the other direction!]
see http://president.uoregon.edu/content/memo-university-senate-president-regarding-senate-resolution-us1213-20-payments-athletics
It will be important for these debates to be informed by full participation of faculty and staff who may not typically participate in Senate meetings. We are committed to the principle of shared governance and meetings like this provide opportunities for all faculty and staff to be heard and to influence the future of the university.
Kees
Lets ask the Dean what he is talking about:
From: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]>
Subject: “contractual obligations” about athletic subsidies
Date: February 10, 2014 at 10:01:13 PM PST
To: Kees de Kluyver <[email protected]>, Margie Paris <[email protected]>
Cc: Jamie Moffitt <[email protected]>, Brad Shelton <[email protected]>, Scott Coltrane <[email protected]>, Randy Geller <[email protected]>, Michael Gottfredson <[email protected]>, Eric Roedl <[email protected]>, Rob Mullens <[email protected]>
Hi Kees
In the email below to your faculty and staff about the Wednesday Senate meeting you say that the Senate will discuss what you call
“an unprecedented proposal to compel the University to redirect funding from Athletics away from various contractual obligations”
I have read through the response from President Gottfredson and VP’s Moffitt and Shelton, and I cannot find any reference to “contractual obligations” that would prevent UO from redirecting athletic department funds or revenue to academic purposes.
I would appreciate it if you would provide Senate President Margie Paris with a clarification of the meaning of your email, and any relevant documents you have about these obligations, so that she can post your response and these contracts on the Senate website, in advance of the Senate meeting on Feb. 12.
Thanks,
Bill Harbaugh
UO Prof. of Economics
TO the extent the admins ramp on their pressure, I believe the Senate must be on to something the benefits the faculty and students of the university. Go Senate!!! (Seriously. When do the admins ever encourage senate participation like this?)
The other way to look at the same thing is: If the Senate backs down to Coltrane/Gottfredson, quit. walk away, be done with the whole notion of faculty governance, laugh at those who claim the senate is worth anything, etc.
Gosh, aren’t football programs supposed to be subsidizing academics?
Yea, Cc: Scott Coltrane on that for sure, Kees. You want to get full credit for getting in line.
Poor Kees, not what he’d been promised.
I read from Gottfredson that we should be competing at the highest level of athletic competition, and it takes money to do that. What does it take to compete at the highest level of academics?
Isn’t it obvious? More administrators.
No worries – nobody in Lillis listens to Kees.