Last updated on 05/18/2015
You log into Duckweb to vote. voting closes Thursday May 21.
You only vote for Senators from your unit, but for the Senate Committees voting is at large – e.g. faculty have a vote for the OA member of the FAC. If you aren’t sure who to vote for, I suggest asking your current Senate representative – they usually have a pretty good sense.
The comments are open subject to the usual Euler’s rule, but please consider using your real name if commenting about a colleague by name. Given Coltrane’s email to supporters asking them to put their names in the hat, I expect there will be a push from the administration to get people to vote for administration-friendly candidates, whatever that means. Hopefully not as ham-handed as this attempt: http://chronicle.com/article/An-Administrator-Turns-Heads/229719/
University Senate
College of Arts and Sciences
Natural Sciences – 4 openings
Social Sciences – 3 openings
Humanities – 3 openings
Professional Schools
Architecture & Allied Arts – 1 opening
College of Education – 2 openings
School of Law – 1 opening
UO Libraries – 1 opening
Officers of Administration – 2 openings
ASUO Student Senators – 2 openings
Classified Staff – 1 opening
Non-Tenure Track Officer of Research – 1 opening
Other Academic Units – 1 opening
Elected Committees
Faculty Advisory Council – 8 openings (term length: 2 years)
6 Tenure-Track Faculty
CAS (3 spots available): 1 each from social sciences and natural sciences, cannot be from History, Romance Languages or Linguistics this year, plus 1 more
Professional Schools – 3 spots available, cannot be from Education Studies or School of Journalism & Communication this year; no two from the same department or professional school
1 Career NTTF from UO Libraries, must have undergone at least one promotion (tentative)
1 OA – cannot be from History, Romance Languages, Linguistics, Education Studies or School of Journalism this year
Faculty Grievance Appeal – 2 openings (length of service: 3 years)
2 unclassified academic employees with faculty rank
Faculty Personnel Committee – 7 openings (length of service: 2 years)
7 Tenure-Track Faculty
CAS (3 spots available) – cannot be from Romance Languages, Geological Studies or Physics
1 each from AAA, Business, Education and School of Music and Dance
Graduate Council – 7 openings (length of service: 3 years, 1 year for students)
5 Teaching Faculty
CAS (4 spots available) – 1 from humanities, 2 from social sciences, 1 from natural sciences; cannot be from Psychology or Humanities department; cannot have more than one member from the same department
AAA (1 spot available)
2 Graduate Students – 1 Masters and 1 Doctoral
Intercollegiate Athletics – 13 openings (length of service: 2 years, 1 year for students)
5 Teaching Faculty
CAS – 3 openings
Professional Schools – 2 openings
1 Classified Staff
2 UO Senate Representatives
5 Students
Officers of Administration Council – 4 openings (length of service: 2 years)
4 Officers of Administration
Promotion-Tenure-Retention Appeal – 1 opening (length of service: 3 years)
1 Tenured CAS Faculty Member formerly on the Faculty Personnel Committee
Undergraduate Council – 13 openings (length of service: 3 years, 1 year for students)
Wow, a lot of Math candidates. Sinclair is a good, sensible, independent-thinking guy. That’s all I’m going to say about this.
Given the current administration’s effort to add administration-friendly faculty to the Senate, the number of nominees from mathematics is not surprising. The math dept has for the past 20 yrs been the administration’s eyes and ears in the Senate and on Senate committees starting with but not limited to Shelton, Gilkey and Isenberg. If you want to to maintain the current imbalance of power between the administration and the faculty and allow the administration to continue to denigrate faculty governance directly and indirectly, those math guys should get your vote!
The Math Department’s dominance of Natural Science positions in the Senate is longstanding, based completely upon their recognition that participation actually matters, and their willingness to take on that responsibility. (I once tallied up the distribution of Senate participation in the prior decade, and found that the Math Department and Nathan Tublitz accounted for 85% of Natural Science representation.) A few years ago on the FAC, in the midst of a discussion of research support, we realized there were no scientists on the FAC, but there were three medievalists. Is a pattern becoming apparent?
None of which contradicts the fact that, as a whole, Math is hostile to both the GTFF and UAUO, deeply conservative with respect to toeing the administration’s line, and utterly uninterested in matters of diversity or social justice. They are indeed ideal participants from the administration’s point of view.
Sorry, but Math is not a Science. So the underrepresentation of scientists is even worse.
Not a science? Au contraire (don’t miss the roll-over): https://xkcd.com/435/
I can’t speak to the candidates from math this year (other than myself), but math has a long-standing tradition of nominating assistant professors to the Senate in an effort (I think) to introduce new faculty to the inner workings of the university.
I would be careful of conflating the views of the younger members of the department with those of the more senior members. If these assistants make it past the hurtle of tenure (which based on the insanity of this years mid-term reviews is far from given) then there is hope for a more balanced department with people who are more sympathetic to the unions and “matters of diversity and social justice”.
I like the word hurtle: a hurdle which causes pain.