5/14/2013: NYT discussion on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on racial preferences in college admissions, and income targeted alternatives, here.
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5/14/2013: Sexual assaults by University of Montana football players lead the DOJ and DOE to require all universities to ban free speech about sex, as harassment. The DOJ report states: A former University student informed the University that she had not reported being assaulted when she was a student because…
5/13/2013: Anyone go to the Friday LSB faculty meeting about Songlines?5/2/2013: Updated with contract and invoices at bottom5/1/2013: From: “Tracy Bars” [email protected] To: “LCB Faculty” [email protected] “LCB Staff”, [email protected], “LCB OA’s” [email protected] Cc: “Chris Van Dyke” [email protected] Subject: May 10th LCB Faculty Staff Meeting Materials and Dean’s Message LCB Faculty…
Update: Berdahl appointed Dennis Galvan as interim VPIA last year. For a while it looked like Pres Gottfredson was going to give him the permanent job without a search, but to his credit he seems to be conducting a thorough search for other potential internal candidates, in accordance with Senate legislation: Dear…
From the ODE: University of Oregon Political Science Graduate Teaching Fellow Jack Edward McDowellwas taken into custody outside his home at approximately 3:22 a.m. Saturday, according to a press release sent by Eugene Police Department Sergeant Ron Tinseth. After being awoken by gunfire, four neighbors in the East 18th Avenue…
5/11/2013: We wouldn’t want to have the football players mingling with students at meals. Might give them the wrong idea about why they’re in college.
5/11/2013: Old press release boiler-plate: About the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a world-class teaching and research institution and Oregon’s flagship public university. The UO is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization made up of 62 of the leading public and private research institutions…
5/10/2013: I expected venality from Sharon Rudnick and her HLGR team, but like everyone else I’ve talked to I’ve been surprised by the incompetence. Maybe I shouldn’t have been though, given who wrote the foreword to “Negotiating for Dummies”: Yup, right at the bottom: David Frohnmayer, President of the University of…
Motion to have the UO athletic department pay the costs of athlete only tutoring and the Knight Arena land, passed 19 to 4 with 4 abstentions on 5/8/2013. President Gottfredson’s report to Senate due 7/8/2013. Payments by the Athletics Department for Academic Purposes Number: US12/13-20 Date of Notice: Wed, 02/13/2013 Legislation,…
Thursday, 5/9/2013, 8-12 AM, Room 122 Knight Library. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae: Synopsis: Gottfredson hunkers down in his bunker. Prologue: Will admins present their counter-counter-counter-counter on raises, or keep stalling? Senate…
Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm Prologue: Be there – two key motions: Adoption of a rational Legal Representation Policy, introduced by Senate VP Margie Paris. (See here for Randy Geller’s attempt). Legislation to require the administration to recoup the annual $1.8M cost of athlete-only tutoring and the $500K cost…
5/8/2013: The NYT discusses California’s extensive programs to respond to the ban on racially explicit affirmative-action programs for admissions with low SES “fill the pipeline” programs: The results of California’s efforts offer some measure of satisfaction to supporters and critics alike. Both sides hail the U.C. system’s strides toward economic —…
From Josephine Woolington in the RG, here. 5/7/2013.
5/6/2013: Sharon Rudnick and VPFA Jamie Moffitt have proposed $12M annually for faculty raises. The faculty union is asking for $25M. Rudnick and her team have made an impassioned plea for help finding $13M in recurring funds to make up the difference, stating that if UO can’t find the money…
Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, Marla Rae.Union rally in support of faculty bargaining team, 12:00 Tuesday, on the Knight Library steps. Details here: The United Academics Contract Action Team is calling on all faculty to greet…