11/8/2012: The faculty union has posted a new FAQ on membership and bargaining, here. I know many readers did not sign for unionization and are very skeptical of the union. I encourage those skeptics in particular to now sign membership cards and ensure their voices are heard within the union.…
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Update: There was a kickoff meeting today on the EMU renovation referendum vote. It seems the efforts to influence the outcome are still chugging along. An anonymous source asked that I post this: 1) The attendees, most of them from ASUO exec staff, made it clear that they should present information in a…
11/7/2012: Both the measures below, on faculty input into admin evaluation and hiring, were passed unanimously by the UO Senate today. Next up? Nathan Tublitz’s call for an immediate comprehensive performance review of Interim Provost Bean will be voted on at the Jan 16 Senate meeting: The Senate requests that…
Liveblog: These are my paraphrasings, not quotes.Gottfredson: Lots of new students, good market signal of perceived quality of UO faculty and staff. Honors for math and architecture. Likely to get no new money from state, will be extra costs. Important capital budget requests, e.g. Straub. Optimistic about university board, strong…
Seems like the FERPA excuse Randy Geller has been using for UO violations is wearing thin: CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina released more than 2,500 pages of documents relating to the NCAA investigation into the football team, including hand-written responses to the NCAA from former Hillside star Greg Little, more…
Highlights? Bean speaks, Mullens’s random policy on pot tests, faculty reviews of administrators. Senate Meeting Agenda – November 7, 2012 2012-2013 Agendas Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 1.1 Approval of the Minutes of the May 9 & 23, 2012 Meetings 3:05 pm 2. State…
We’ve all been up that creek. From the Oregonian: About five miles off of the highway, around 11:15 a.m., the pickup attempted to cross Shitike Creek on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation but was stymied by the water’s depth and current. The driver and passenger fled the truck on foot,…
Story here. 11/6/2012.
The office of communication has set up its own blog. Better production values, but fewer public records, and no comments: http://around.uoregon.edu/o-blog
It seems like a simple public records request: I am asking for any contracts or invoices for legal advice or consulting, legal or otherwise, relating to the faculty union, from 3/20/2012 to the present. 10 days, no response. 11/5/2012.
11/5/2012: The ODE reports on UO’s new draft policy for reporting sexual assaults. Story by Josephine Woolington, first in a series. The tradeoff? If you guarantee victim anonymity you will get more complete reporting, but also more false positives, and cases will be more difficult to prosecute. Ultimately, it would…
Whoops, sorry, it’s AD Rob Mullens that’s doing the search, and it’s just for a new women’s soccer coach. It’s nice to see that performance and transparency matters somewhere at UO though. Mullens for Provost! He has even appointed a professor, Jennifer Reynolds from law, to the search committee. 11/4/2012.
11/4/2012: The NYT education magazine has an article about it, Steve Hsu has the link and a good take in his blog, here. Brandeis was famously started in part as a reaction to Ivy League discrimination against Jews – the “numerus clausus”. I wonder if there will be a similar market…
11/4/2012: Obviously there’s lots of competition between universities for students. Some of it is based on the consumption value of the “college experience” and some on the employment value of the degrees we issue them. There are some fairly attractive alternatives to the “college experience” – travel the world, be…
11/3/2012. Good story about UNC Chancellor (Chapel Hill campus president) Holden Thorp and the difficulties of managing a large research university/sports enterprise. UNC spends about 8 times more on research than sports. While at UO? More on this later.