Word from inside JH is that the funds will come from cutting “bowl game junket benefits” for Lorraine Davis, Robin Holmes, Tim Gleason, and of course Randy Geller:
Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to announce our plan to enact new and expanded benefits for unrepresented faculty members and officers of administration, effective July 1. These benefits include new paid family leave support and reduced tuition for a second child enrolled in a UO undergraduate program, as well as expanded sabbatical compensation for faculty. Represented faculty already enjoy these benefits under the collective bargaining agreement negotiated last fall. At that time, I announced the university’s intent to extend these benefits to unrepresented faculty and officers of administration. I am authorized to enact these benefits now, under the authority delegated to me by the Board of Trustees.
The draft policies can be view by clicking the links below:
We invite public comment on the plan to extend these benefits. Anyone who would like to provide input on these policies may do so on Tuesday, June 3 from 3:30–5:30 p.m. at 203 Condon Hall, or by submitting written testimony to [email protected] by Wednesday, June 4 at noon. This information is also posted on the Board of Trustees website and on AroundtheO.
Thank you for all that you do to make the University of Oregon a premier public research university and a wonderful place to work and learn.
Warm regards, Michael Gottfredson, President
Mr. President?
If these additional benefits are not the best in the known world, or at least the best in the country, then I’m not impressed. Sorry.
Good of him to comply with his contractual obligations under the CBA.
No, he’s extending the CBA benefits to those outside the bargaining unit.
Just wondering how departments will typically deal with a half term leave for courses? Split teaching assignment for the course?
All Gott’s actions now strike me as moves designed to buff up his rep before he applies for the inevitable new job.
How has the Board delegated any authority to him yet? The Delegation of Authority document has not been approved and they don’t assume authority till July 1, right?
That’s classy of him, and good on you for pointing out the good stuff along with the bad.