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- uomatters { Say what you will about our President Schill, but at least he didn't write 22 paragraphs, or bury a faculty... }
- bored after one paragraph { His messages are always just so long. And every paragraph starts with a sentence with 'I' in it. }
- Eternal Skeptic { "...generating budgetary problems for the university that will take years for us to dig out of..." And thus the seed... }
- Less cynical than some { UOM: I'm sorry, your comment has been deleted for violating the UOM policy against making fun of people on the... }
- Presumptive Idiot { Brevity is a virtue. Perhaps an overpaid PR flack could summarize these in the future. }
- Retirement buyout updates (26)
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Wow, they want the computers back from faculty who might continue to do research, write letters for students ... They... }
- Anonymous { I received this offer and am not interested. It's a bad deal for me, though I realize it might make... }
- It's classified. { From listening to a speech by Provost Phillips recently, he sure made it sound like the UO machine will be... }
- °°=~|~=°° { Not all senior TT profs are shining examples of continued research and excellent teaching. AHEM. }
- Dog { yes, indeed open a window in PLC and entice them to jump into the safety net below, which of course... }
- This Is The Way { I'd have to take a longer look. These plans are pretty common in a budget crisis. You open a window,... }
- low cost buyout flight parh? { speaking of early departure -- heard a rumor that a NTTF quit in mid-term recently in a large beginning class... }
- uomatters { Makes sense. Given that you have some expertise in this, I think my readers would be very interested in your... }
- Big-time college sports corrupts everything... (1)
- moss defender { I like the heading you put on this item....my thoughts exactly. Have a good holiday. }
- Your unions (12)
- smitty { Would you kindly put up the link to the current (soon to be old) contract, please? THANKS: http://local085.seiu503.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/91/files/2020/01/2019-21_seiucba_final.pdf }
- UO to offer "one-time" buyout... (14)
- uomatters { Please put any new comments on the new post with the details, here: https://uomatters.com/2020/11/uo-offering-buyouts-to-faculty-and-oas-if-they-sign-away-all-rights.html }
- charlie { Was that the scheme to borrow $1 billion for Wall Street bond palaces in order to achieve said financial security... }
- New Year Cat { I would assume because they intend to try to shaft them during next year's bargaining. Based on what they try... }
- Leporillo { I'm wondering if there were any (less cynical) reasons offered as to why the classified staff are not being offered... }
- Canard { Yes, but if the experienced classified staff all left (which most of them would), nothing would work! Whereas if only... }
- Pffft { As a classified staff person who has worked on campus 22 years, and has been at the top of my... }
- Irritated staffer { As usual, Classified staff get the shaft once again! }
- Thomas Hager { No vaccine will cure our enrollment woes. College enrollments were already falling before Covid (https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2019/12/16/college-enrollment-declines-again-its-down-more-than-two-million-students-in-this-decade/?sh=70284fbd3d95), and demographic trends indicate continuing... }
- Secretive university long-term planning task... (4)
- anonymous { Ian is 1/2 classified 1/2 NTTP (I think it is). He seems to be on a number of task forces/whatever.... }
- Tug o' the Forelock { Ian Winbrock is on the list of classified employees dated Feb 2020. Yours in solidarity... }
- anonymous { And where's the Classified Staff representation? (The invisible ~1500 campus community members.) }
- uograd { NDA's at a university? So much for academic collegiality. Shameful, but symptomatic of what's going on at the UofO these... }
- Duck booster Pat Kilkenny beats... (2)
- Environmental necessity { Ballmer > Kilkenny }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { I guess Bloke beats Woke? }
- Pres Schill to cut back... (12)
- Rick's Son { Which militaristic uniform wearing position is which? One is dawned in ebony whilst the other parades around in amber. Both... }
- uomatters { Thank you for this informative comment. }
- Michael { There are structural problems in UOPD for the CSO program. Current hires are in the SEIU, so the Police Union... }
- charlie { Might have to do with insurance litigation costs. Less cops, less chance for insurance payouts... }
- Environmental necessity { These are all excellent questions that UO and UOPD should answer. Also, sell the fleet and get a bunch of... }
- Nix SUVs { All good points. Get rid of the SUVs. Off the butts and on the feet, like everyone else at the... }
- Questions { Questions: Does this mean the UOPD budget is going up or down? What’s the UOPD budget? Has it gone up... }
- Board of Trustees post some... (5)
- Environmental necessity { Agreed. It is surprisingly hideous. }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Now for my grumbles. Nothing at the meeting about covid? And high school gpa's? Are you kidding? Let's see sat... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { bah, naysayers! You are safely confined to the likes of PLC and Onyx whilst the more favored enjoy their digs... }
- uomatters { The Phildo is not the kind of thing children should have to look at while eating breakfast. I want to... }
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