John Canzano with a slow-pitch interview in the Oregonian, here.
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More accurately he wants me to watch a brief campaign ad before HorsepowerTube will explain the many steps needed to dismantle the steering column and tighten up the Torx bolts that GM inexplicably failed to use Loctite on, back in the day. Seems like a fair trade. Thanks Joe.
From the Provost: Dear Colleagues, I am excited to announce that I have selected Clark Honors College Dean Gabe Paquette to be the next vice provost for academic affairs. Gabe joins the Office of the Provost team where he will help us in strengthening the academic mission…
From United Academics, Johnson Hall’s new creditors. Full text here. Dear Colleague, We are pleased to inform you that the membership has ratified the Memorandum of Understanding to restore Career faculty FTE, institute a payroll reduction plan, and allow faculty to resubmit requests for promotion by a vote of 461…
OPB has the news here: Oregon State University announced Tuesday that it will move most fall classes online. President F. King Alexander wrote in a letter to faculty and staff that more than 90% of courses will be offered remotely to “limit the density of activity on-campus and help minimize…
8/11/2020 update: UO still hasn’t responded to the July 2nd request from Bloomberg News, but they’ve finally told the Oregonian this: “UO also said it “does not possess documents” regarding the number of positive COVID-19 test results for football players, coaches or team support staff, but that if they did,…
The list of possible subjects is large. As usual, Board Chair Angela Wilhelms isn’t giving specifics:
James Crepea in the Oregonian, here: “We’re still trying to figure out if we can return to practice,” [Duck AD Rob Mullens] said on Oregon’s in-house radio show Friday, his first public appearance in since May 15. “So if we can’t return to practice then obviously that has an impact.…
Michael McCann, here.
President Schill was hired by Board Chair Chuck Lillis after a closed search (which additionally minimized faculty input, and gave Lillis sole power to pick the one finalist.) This report from the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information is the first attempt I’ve seen to examine the consequences of such…
Ted Sickinger has the story in the Oregonian here: Employees hired after Aug. 28, 2003 who make more than $30,000 a year are now sending 0.75% of salary to support the pension fund, with the remaining 5.25% of salary still flowing to individual accounts. The employee cost-sharing is expected to…
I can’t imagine why our provost would feel the need to put that in writing. I think the gist of his email is that faculty can now opt out of in-person teaching, whether they are obese or not: Dear Colleagues, I hope that you and your families are enjoying the…
That’s right, he’ll mortgage future income to pay Rob Mullens and the coaches now. Why not? They’ll all be gone when the bill comes due – just as Dave Frohnmayer is. Meanwhile the faculty is on its own. Jon Wilner has the scoop in the San Jose Mercury, here: The…