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- New Pres Karl Scholz “handles... (4)
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Seriously, the EW article is all about secrecy, the obsessions about diversity, pseudo-psychiatric evaluation (implicit bias?). Not a word about... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Effin' A! }
- Powerball { "Scholz’s contract says he’ll make $725,000 in his first year." IIRC, Schill made $660,000 in his first year starting in... }
- Anonymouse { Better than "the way you'd expect a lawyer to handle it". If you follow the link you'll see it's mostly... }
- Smug Interim Provost tries to... (7)
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Yeah, things are going great. Ask those forced to use shared services, Tykeson advising, or search for classrooms. And DEI... }
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { If you haven't looked at the newer campus climate survey documents, you should. The answer to FAQ #6 ("What about... }
- uomatters { I try not to read emails from Woodruff-Borden anymore, but a colleague sent me this one and I posted it... }
- TRPer { You've done it Harbaugh, you've made me nostalgic for Moseley. Now I must go spit out some vomit. }
- thedude { Admins about low faculty pay. Let them eat DEI training and group belonging therapy. }
- uomatters { I believe you, but a reputation for giving the university's money away to faculty is not going to go over... }
- thedude { You know what help my sense of belonging and department retention. Raises that more than keep up with inflation. }
- Small minded sports columnist mocks... (3)
- CSN { That's a good point -- at my undergraduate institution no alcohol was sold at the football games and yet, somehow,... }
- uomatters { Well, not serving alcohol would be a start - but then that helps pay the coaches salaries. }
- CSN { I'm not sure what coaches and ADs are supposed to do about this situation. This feels like a thing where... }
- UO Administration loses their "strategic... (9)
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { Trying to recall the specifics, but likely one incident--perhaps comment rather than joke--that would raise DEI eyebrows a bit (the... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Boiled Duck -- have they really been cracking such jokes? Somehow, I doubt it. And I hope not. I'd rather... }
- uomatters { Not heartening. }
- Simplius Simplicissimus { I fed ChatGPT the Interim President's letter and asked for a funny comment. Here it is: Richie Hunter V2 (a.k.a.... }
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { Thanks for flagging that, honest UG. It's a shameful accolade, but I have some slight hope that this is a... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { For what it's worth, UO has been named one of the 10 worst campuses in the country for academic freedom... }
- uomatters { No, no, please name names! }
- Johnson Hall { Seeing a useless VP jump ship before the new President takes over is a good sign. I'm not naming names,... }
- UO Board appoints competent outsider... (23)
- Lame Duck { Wait, I thought Phil Knight was UO President? Is he stepping down? }
- Thedude { The evil one gave us our biggest raises. }
- moss defender { a competent person in charge of a dysfunctional sinking ship is just a slightly slower trip to the bottom of... }
- uomatters { Not to say I'd feel the same way if it was, say, Larry Summers. }
- uomatters { I was going to criticize this comment for not mentioning other dimensions of what's important in a Pres, but then... }
- Old fart (she/her) { Excuse me while I hold a muted applause since this is the 5th white dude President UO had since I... }
- Cheyney Ryan { I do speak for myself, that's why I use my real name in these posts. Old white men seem do... }
- uomatters { I don't think we'd have had the Knight Campus without Patrick's willingness to work with Uncle Phil. He took a... }
- Senate to Vote this Wed... (1)
- Fishwrapper { I mean, that's the whole point, the raison d'etre behind this whole enterprise, right? What more appropriate way to celebrate... }
- Despite SVB, former UO Board... (4)
- moss defender { bigger mystery who has the civil war soldier head from campus cemetery....pretty sure that was in a Simpsons episode...the replacement... }
- { You left out the lawsuits from when he was on the Medco board. }
- uomatters { Here's hoping any connection is merely geographic. }
- Townie { UO’s endowment is now managed by a Silicon Valley firm (Jasper Ridge). }
- CAS Dean Chris Poulsen asks... (6)
- Hart { So if you are a history/english double major (not a super unusual configuration), you're supposed to sit through a long... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Such a telling and inauspicious way to hold commencement, starting with the delay for the track stuff. There's just so... }
- Unhappy Classified Camper { And, as a classified member of one of these ridiculous CAS Shared Services/ASU, I was told I was to not... }
- oldtimer { All good comments. My general reaction is ‘what a brilliantly student-centered change from departmental major ceremonies to a three ring... }
- { A little off topic, but if you bold a sentence should you also add: (emp added). This double emphasis would... }
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- Smug Interim Provost tries to distract her underpaid faculty colleagues by “fostering their sense of belonging” https://t.co/ATGypH0Ekk, Mar 23
- Small minded sports columnist mocks State Rep Janelle Bynum for her courageous stand against drunken sports fans https://t.co/eEWTI5UfgJ, Mar 22
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- Small minded sports columnist mocks State Rep Janelle Bynum for her courageous stand against drunken sports fans 03/22/2023
- UO Law School runs afoul of ABA’s diversity quota 03/21/2023
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- UO Board appoints competent outsider as new President – John Karl Scholz from UW-Madison 03/13/2023
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I think it is hard to motivate people to donate towards research programs and grant generation, no matter how rich they are.
Well, that is exactly what our $300K VPRI is supposed to be doing.
And why the VPRI office has its own development officer. I think he has a tough role though, given how protective the university fundraisers are.
Holy cow–are you telling me that not only are there multiple (academic) fundraising offices, but they work at cross-purposes? Is this typical?
Bet those incoming faculty are excited by the UO’s guarantee of a 1 percent raise this year and next. Rolling out the red carpet.
Interesting that Harvard was able to get $400 million very recently from investor John Paulson for their applied science and engineering school — that amount of dough would really help the cluster hiring get off the ground, lol!
I (and a lot of other people in the sciences) always thought the cluster-f*** program was an ill-advised gimmick that would lead to bad hiring decisions and program directions at UO. The one thing it seemed it might have going for it was precisely that it might be a good fund-raising gimmick.
Seems very odd that UO’s big donors are willing to put up $20 million for a “branding” campaign but aren’t willing to put out for something of substance that might actually help to shore up the school’s shaky academic standing (relative to its AAU aspirations).
Do they not see that UO is on the brink of a permanent severe setback to its national standing? Is there no sense of urgency? If UO gets dumped from the AAU, I doubt that subsequently raising $2 billion would be enough to compensate.
It really makes me wonder about the quality of all the people involved (I’ll leave it up to the reader to make a private mental list; don’t neglect to consider that you might be eligible yourself. I include myself too!) It seems like UO has been walking in zombieland for years.
Bernie buried the lede, so here is it, up front and in bold: “Seems very odd that UO’s big donors are willing to put up $20 million for a ‘branding’ campaign but aren’t willing to put out for something of substance that might actually help to shore up the school’s shaky academic standing…”
I was typing something similar, but this nails it.
Actually, both the academic donations and the branding bucks came from the same Trustee, Connie Ballmer.
I had someone else in mind…
I didn’t know that the donations all came from her. So good for her (and her husband)! I’m surprised that this hasn’t been better publicized.
I’m not crazy about what I’ve heard so far about the PR campaign, but it is well-meant and conceivably could lead to some positive outcomes.
I do hope the people with sufficient means step up to help UO before it’s too late. I hope that they’re being apprised about what is at stake. It wouldn’t take that much, probably no more than they already have in mind. The timing is what I think is urgent.
I found a Bible verse that might serve as a slogan for faculty who are fleeing or going on strike: “And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.” (Matthew 10:14)
I doubt the UO will attract top students until it revamps its curriculum offerings, which seem hopelessly stuck in the ‘70s. The best and brightest aren’t studying sociology these days; their interests are in engineering and applied sciences. It’s telling that the most popular major on campus is journalism—which some reports rank as among the most useless degrees for finding gainful employment in 2015.
I’d like to see the new President and Board establish a school of engineering and perhaps a medical school, and to put resources into computer science (which remains a backwater even though the demand is great). It always seems a fait accompli that the UO will remain prohibited from offering engineering and health science programs—in contrast, Washington State recently overcame a 98-year-old legislative prohibition and fierce opposition from the UW to establish a new medical school. It’s unclear why UO can’t take the same aggressive approach.
The endless harping on the football program on this blog is a complete red herring; offer the right programs, put resources behind them, and top students will come.
There isn’t even statistics at UO…
@English81 – while I completely agree and have been pointlessly bitching about this for years, the key component: “put resources behind them” is very large. We need resources in both faculty expertise in these “right programs” and new physical facilities,
buildings, better computer infrastructure, and the like. This is a few tens of millions to do this. Besides, the UO is completely mired in its own legacy.
@effing Canis–State disinvestment in higher education is, sadly, a national issue and not unique to UO. And with names like Lillis, Knight, Ballmer, Lokey and others interested in UO’s future, the school is better positioned than many to handle that reality. The first step was getting out from under the state’s inept and disgraceful management. And finding resources to enhance the curriculum does not seem to me to be orders of magnitude more difficult than, say, creating a national football powerhouse in the Willamette Valley. So I, for one, am cautiously optimistic about the future.
the issue is whether or not the BOT finds tens of millions for special interest programs (Prevention Sciences, for example) or really broad curriculum reform that will lead to a more relevant education for a students.
The basic issues, is what Derek Bok asked in 2009 – are Universities today producing responsible citizens for the actual real world?
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8648.html