Neoliberalism at the UO. An open letter to Oregonians. In the Eugene Weekly here. About the Author: Jesús Sepúlveda is an internationally recognized poet who grew up under Pinochet’s dictatorial regime and experienced the effects of neoliberalism in Chile. He is the author of eight poetry collections and three books of essays,…
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has the story here: University of Oregon on ‘Bias Response Team’: Nothing to See Here By Adam Steinbaugh May 27, 2016 This month, a number of commentators have criticized the University of Oregon’s (UO’s) bias incident reporting system—an online tool to report perceived…
After informative statements from both candidates, and questions, the Senate elected Chris Sinclair as VP and President Elect. Video from last week’s meeting is here: https://youtu.be/5dU4fTgPmww Senate Meeting Agenda May 25, 2016. Browsing Room, Knight Library; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm Introductory Remarks, Senate President Randy Sullivan 3:00pm 1. Call to Order 3:05 pm …
It’s the usual big-time college sports story: the athletes were raping undergrads, and the coach and president were doing their best to cover it up. The WaPo has a report here. Baylor’s faith-based sexual assault policy doesn’t seem to have worked out so well for the survivors: Pray for the wisdom of our leaders as they…
Wednesday May 25 at 11:00 AM in the Johnson Hall Conference room. Brad Shelton and Jamie Moffitt will be in attendance to talk about the budget and the budget (re)alignment process. The agenda is: 1) State of the UO budget (15 minutes) 2) Moving forward with budget processes (45 minutes)…
Tran Nguyen has more in the Emerald here.
UO’s public records office routinely uses fees and delays to frustrate the intent of Oregon’s public records law, aided by the desultory enforcement efforts of the local DA and the Oregon DOJ. UO even charges its own student journalists fees, and refuses to let them use ASUO i-fee money to pay…
There were a few other issues, however. The Pulitzer Prize winning Willamette Week broke the news here. The UOPD reports it has begun an investigation, and is working on some promising leads. Video here. The RG has more here, including some quotes.
Check her website here for updates, page down for the current links. Among many other resources she provides a link to the recently updated University of Michigan policy, which explicitly excludes faculty from the list of “Responsible Employees”, thereby allowing them to talk to students and employees about sexual and racial harassment without…
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the forward: Date: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:18 PM To: “[email protected]” <[email protected]> Subject: law-fac-staff: We’re #1! Thank you for your support and enthusiasm – and for putting up with my incessant updates! I am so very proud to say that the School of Law…
In the RG here. Next up, a new provost to replace Scott Coltrane.
During the first faculty union contract bargaining sessions The University’s bargaining team of Sharon Rudnick, Tim Gleason, and Doug Blandy spent hours haranguing the faculty union team about a “civility” policy – by which they meant a prohibition on faculty criticisms of the inept Mike Gottfredson and his Johnson Hall…
Let me be the first to congratulate former Interim UO President Bob Berdahl (left) on his courageous support for Better Oregon’s Measure 28 ballot initiative, which is the only proposal on the table that would increase tax revenues by enough to allow the sorts of increases in higher education funding that he calls for…
Live-blogging will be light. Watch Live Senate Meeting Agenda – May 18, 2016 3:30 pm Introductory Remarks, Senate President Randy Sullivan 3:30 pm 1. Call to Order 3:30 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 May 11, 2016 3:32 pm 4. New Business 3:32 pm 4.2 US15/16/-25: Scheduling of Examinations Policy; Undergraduate Council and…
The Senate webpage with the policy proposal and amendments is here. The Senate blog is here – many interesting comments. Some History of the Responsible Employee policy, from the GCO: Prior to February 2016, UO Policy, set forth in Oregon Administrative Rule 571.003 governing Grievances, required all UO employees to report instances…