6/17/2013: Today I got this email: From: President Gottfredson Subject: RE: Protect and Preserve Shared Governance at UODate: June 17, 2013 3:03:25 PM PDTTo: William Harbaugh Dear Colleague, Thank you for your email about the ongoing faculty contract negotiations. I agree that this first-ever collective bargaining agreement is critical…
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6/17/2013: Protesters showed up by the thousands … evolved into a broader movement by groups and individuals irate over a range of issues including … lavish new stadium projects. Whoops, never mind, that’s in Brazil. Here in Eugene everyone’s cool with Phil Knight’s plan to spend $5 million on new…
6/16/2013: And are holding up SB 270 until they get it. The RG has the story from Jonathan Cooper of the AP. In totally unrelated news, the AP reports that bite marks are too unreliable to be used in court.
Update: Can Oregon’s flagship university stay in the AAU? If so what do we need to do? That seems like a question of public interest. But not to President Gottfredson, whose public records office is trying to charge UO student journalists $94 for the records: Public records fees charged by the…
6/16/2013: Those who have heard Bean babble on about online-ed and MOOCs will love this proposal for MOOAs. (Thanks to commenter for link.) And by popular demand here’s the budget for LCB: Instructional salary expenditures up 44% since 2008, administrative costs up 194%. And that’s before the $320K + OPE…
6/16/2013: Some pretty funny and nasty video clips about UO student politics, mostly incomprehensible to people who haven’t watched a movie since, uh, Patton.
6/16/2013 update: It’s not an official opinion from the GC’s office, but I have a feeling it’s all that we’re going to get. Obviously today’s embarassing RG story on public records at UO is the only way to get President Gottfredson to move: On SundayJun 16, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Gregory…
6/15/2013: Effective 3/31/2014, national search for a replacement to begin over the summer, thanks to several readers for passing along the email.
6/15/2013: In the Oregonian, here: … And Brad Avakian, Oregon’s labor commissioner, assures me he is anxious to prosecute an equally egregious case here. “If an intern comes to us and says, ‘I think I’m doing free work for my employer,’ we will investigate the case,” Avakian said Friday. “If they…
6/14/2013: President Gottfredson has to decide who will replace retired UO law professor Jim O’Fallon very soon. O’Fallon has been the FAR for 23 years – since back when he actually was faculty – without ever going through a performance review. This is a clear violation of OUS rules, and…
6/13/2013: It’s finals week and I’ve heard a lot of frustrations from faculty and students about the increased level of cheating at UO and the perceived lack of enforcement by the Office of Student Conduct. A student journalist has made a public records request for data on expulsions. If anyone…
6/12/2013: Need a very used couch? Eugene’s HS students have a great idea, straight out of the pages of my favorite archaeology book. And while I’m off topic, check out Around the O for the most dissonant headline I’ve ever read: Computer professor scores trifecta with committee posts But actually, these seem to…
6/12/2013: From Hannah Hoffmann in the SJ: Public sector retirements this year are up 54 percent over last year, according to statistics kept by the Public Employees Retirement System. Workers say the proposed cuts in the legislature are driving their early exits. PERS spokesman David Crosley said 2,305 public sector…
6/10/2013: Architect of Kitzhaber’s education plan plans to leave. Nigel Jaquiss has the scoop in WWeek. Some search firm sure took us on this guy – I wonder if they also handled the Medgar Evers presidential search?
6/10/2013, at the University of Washington: Students on the advisory committee, along with student-government leaders, said if lawmakers won’t give more state dollars to higher education, students would support a 3 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates — or about $322 — in 2013-14, and another 3 percent increase the…