I just finished teaching a small Econ honors capstone course. From the email sent in with one of the final papers: Thanks for offering this course this term. We had such a great time working together we all registered for a flag football course together spring term.
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And fortunately that precedent is the exact opposite of what they’d hoped for when they spent UO’s money on a losing fight against Professor Jennifer Freyd’s equal pay lawsuit. Some snippets from Law 360 below. My favorite part is “Counsel for the University of Oregon did not respond to an…
Plenty of worse ways to waste taxpayers money, and thanks!
Equity. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Some faculty are young, single, low risk. Others have unvaccinated kids, are immunocompromised, taking care of someone who is, or are just plain old. Our administration wants to treat them all the same:…
Yeah sorry this is late but I really don’t care much either. Board Chair Chuck Lillis is finally stepping down – so far without any of the bankruptcies, lawsuits and pension money raids that marked his service on the WaMu and other corporate boards. I’m sure Uncle Phil has another…
It appears to be a flagrant violation of the First Amendment and the Oregon Constitution, but presumably our leaders think they can use it as a threat against troublesome faculty and students until FIRE brings a lawsuit. My first reaction to this was disbelief, and in case yours is the…
3/1/2022 update: Thanks to Connie Ballmer, and to Mike Schill for his successful efforts to bring in gift money to support UO’s mission. This is a huge gift targeted to an important issue. It appears to be a good combination of research, teaching, and service to the state. Just what…
From Nature (thanks to a generally reliable correspondent): … Staff risked their personal safety to teach in person during the pandemic, and many have reported frequently working weekends, says Jo Grady, general secretary of the UCU. “The fact that we love what we do makes us easily exploitable,” adds Leach.…
In a bold move, President Schill took to the RG Op-Ed page today with data showing that UO’s faculty are underpaid relative to their peers, arguing that pay increases would improve UO’s teaching and research performance. 2020-21: But of course I’m kidding about what Pres Schill wrote. His op-ed below…
The comprehensive 2014 report is here: https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Annual-Report-Academic-Year-2014-final.pdf The 2021 report has much prettier graphics and much less information:
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the news that 3 finalists have been selected and are coming to campus. The link that is supposed to take you to the schedule does not. Finalist A is Cass Moseley, (current interim who seems to be doing a fine job). Don’t ask me…
#2 in a series of occasional posts: [Now updated with the latest version of the 2/20 chart] In other news the administration has resumed daily reporting: https://coronavirus.uoregon.edu/cases#cases-by-day
Last year the legislature was considering SB854, a bill to strengthen state oversight of the university’s and boards it established with SB270. The boards and their lobbyists – who ironically are mostly paid with student tuition – were able to weaken the bill to the point it died in committee,…
Zoom at https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96310002361 February 2, 2022 Senate Meeting Agenda Academic Year2021-2022DateFebruary 2, 2022 Call to Order Land Acknowledgment; Renee Irvin “Practicing Trauma-informed Pedagogy in a Time of Political Polarization”; Anita Chari (3:00 – 4:00 P.M.) Intro Remarks; Spike Gildea ASUO updates; Maxwell Ely Approval of the Minutes January 12, 2022…