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From Forbes: Harvard announced that it would conduct most of its classes and work remotely for the first three weeks of January. Also this week, Stanford University, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, Temple University, the University of Washington and all the campuses in the University of California system have announced they will begin their spring semesters remotely. ……
Dear University of Oregon community,Thank you for your ongoing efforts to protect yourselves and others against COVID-19 as we all came back together for fall term.The university is closely monitoring the worldwide increase in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of the Omicron variant. Public health experts continue to stress that…
That would be Provost Kimberly Espy, UO’s former VPR, now at UTSA: As a result of our success in growing our enrollment—which led to our increased formula funding in the last legislative session and allocation of new resources under our incentivized resource management (IRM) budget model—we announced in August a strategic…
GC Kevin Reed is still hiding the contract from the sports reporters, but you can get the gist from Willie Taggart’s deal here. Meeting notice: MEETING AGENDABoard of Trustees of the University of OregonExecutive and Audit Committee | Public Meeting4:00 PM PST | December 14, 2021Convene Call to order, roll…
A bit less than half the members voted, with 95% approving the administration’s offer of 5/2/3 % raises. Voting closed at midnight. Sure enough, at 8:00 this morning I got the email below (with my response at the top) telling me that the administration had finally posted a partial salary…
Rumor has it that the raise agreement will be for 3 years, with 5/2/3 % raises. The union will send out a call for members to approve in a few days. First two years across the board, last 3% merit. You can’t call it a COLA raise because actual cost…
Of course not, this is for the football coach:
I’m sure Duck Faculty Athletic Reps Tim Gleason and Josh Gordon will have a complete explanation for Pres Schill’s Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee. 73% of Cristobal’s players graduate within 6 years, 20% of Altman’s do. Many problems with this metric, but why is UO at the bottom? From Jon Wilner’s…
Unsurprising news from Runners World. Thanks to a regular correspondent for forwarding the link. A grand jury has subpoenaed records and contracts dating back to 2012. As part of a criminal investigation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has asked for documents detailing the financial relationship between…
Everything important has been done or will be done in secret. Two days of meetings and the only vote is a pro-forma one on some Ed School MS/certificate program. No way this in-person meeting is worth even an epsilon chance of the Omicron, but it will be online if you…
Just kidding, of course he didn’t. But OSU’s General Counsel did, in admirable detail:
On November 21st 2011, 10 years ago, OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and Board Chair Matt Donegan came down to UO with their ultimatum demanding Lariviere resign for trying to implement his plan to bring faculty pay to 100% of AAU averages and trying to set up an independent UO Board. Lariviere refused to leave…
Thanks to several members of Pres Schill’s Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee for forwarding this secret memo, along with the email from “Faculty” Athletics Rep Tim Gleason, below. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION: From: Tim Gleason Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:49 AMTo: Kristyn Elton <[email protected]>; Christopher Minson <[email protected]>; tom lininger <[email protected]>; Troy Elias <[email protected]>; Anne ‘Michelle’…