The Chicago faculty eventually followed the UO faculty’s leadership on Academic Freedom and Free Speech, by adopting a verbose and watered down version of the UO policies. Now their grad students are following the long established UO GTFF by voting 2.3 to 1 for a union. Colleen Flaherty of InsideHigherEd has the story here.
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- 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,... }
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- 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... }
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- Fishwrapper { I mean, that's the whole point, the raison d'etre behind this whole enterprise, right? What more appropriate way to celebrate... }
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- 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). }
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- 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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- just different { First, some facts. By any measure, the education gender gap has gotten an enormous amount of attention for more than... }
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- just different { So DAC is centrally located, but FUMC four blocks away is "out of the way." Um, ok. }
- moss defender { thanks orwell lol..beam me up scotty not reading this whiner }
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