Posts published by “uomatters”

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…

Thanks to an anonymous IT worker for sending this, about UO’s efforts to prevent IT workers from getting SEIU representation by classifying them as “management”: SEIU 503 is challenging a whopping 60% of all Information Services Division OAs (40+ positions in total) for being mis-classified as “Managerial Positions”, even though…

No disrespect to Mr. Reed intended – this is just the sort of thing he said he would do in his job application letter, and just what Pres Schill pays him to do: PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The NCAA is reviewing the University of Oregon’s relationship to an organization backed…

From https://www.oregon.gov/erb/Documents/UP-014-17_Remand.pdf

Thanks to Raghu Parthasarathy of UO Physics and http://eighteenthelephant.wordpress.com/ for sending in the following: ..I’ve wondered about this exact comparison [of the relative risks of Covid and of bicycling] for a while. Here are some very rough numbers — I encourage someone to put together better ones. TL/DR: My estimate…

The union’s response today to the administration’s dismissal yesterday of the union’s request that JH get its shit together about this omicron thing, any fucking time now: Colleagues, Below, you’ll find the [Union] Executive Council’s message to upper administration after reviewing their response. If you are having difficulty with remote…

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, another key COVID-19 forecaster in the Pacific Northwest says the number of infections in Oregon likely peaked Jan. 11. It forecasts that hospitalizations will top out on Feb. 1. Daily deaths would start declining on Feb. 4. From…

From https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/20/pac-12-stock-report-oregons-covid-issue-washingtons-beefed-up-schedule-low-level-star-power-small-wins-for-asu-and-colorado/ The outline of an unfortunate situation has emerged on the Oregon trail. It involves COVID — specifically, the apparent violation of conference protocols by Ducks coach Dana Altman. We framed it that way because details are sketchy. What can and cannot be revealed about COVID is dictated by…