3/31/2012: We hear rumors of high rates of staff turnover in the Registrar’s office, to the effect that apparently 11 classified staff have left over the past year. Comments welcome.
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3/31/2012: A reader asks: What should an appropriate system of retention at UO look like? What is the current policy? Should the UO adopt a preemptive retention offer policy for certain categories of faculty? Does it have one now? Obviously more productive faculty with better outside options should get paid…
3/31/2012: Joe Nocera of the NYT has been posting a series of pieces on the NCAA cartel. The latest blows a hole in one of the favorite arguments of the AD and its Johnson Hall enablers – that college athletics should be praised for bringing African-Americans to colleges like UO:…
3/29/2012: I’m no economist, so I don’t like to make forecasts, but Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier are and they’ve got an interesting piece out: What Would the End of Football Look Like? … This slow death march could easily take 10 to 15 years. Imagine the timeline. A couple…
3/29/2012: Dan Dugger in math and some other faculty are organizing an online petition to the ERB, asking for a secret ballot election rather than accept the card check petition. I believe that the law requires the ERB be given written signatures, but Dan says: NOTE: ERB will *consider* the…
Will affect the debate at UO on this same issue. In the Chronicle today, here: The leaders of an effort to unionize faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago have abandoned the idea of forming a single collective-bargaining unit representing both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members, and instead…
that would be the Portland State provost. Search info here. Four finalists brought to campus, the job went to Sona Karentz Andrews, a VC at OUS and former Provost at Boise State. Meanwhile all indications are that Pres Berdahl is going to bring back Jim Bean as UO provost this…
3/26/2012: From the RG: The total legal costs — $419,000 — dwarf the $5,583 in damages that a jury awarded Schlossberg in January, after deciding unanimously that his constitutional rights were violated by Solesbee during a March 13, 2009, encounter in front of an Umpqua Bank branch in downtown Eugene.…
for VPSA job. Thanks to anon for link.
3/25/2012: This Insidehighered.com piece starts with the recent firing of Pres Michael Hogan from UI and then moves to a good discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of closed presidential searches such as that underway at UO: … “What all universities are trying to do is find a successor who…
3/24/2012: The faculty union organizers have now put up a long post that gives the next steps. Worth reading it all, here. I am disappointed that they left out the April 4 deadline for faculty that are opposed to submit letters or a petition. A link to one petition, arguing…
as of 10AM 3/24/2012. There are a few signatures that might reasonably be challenged, e.g.: Name: Moe Ronn on Mar 23, 2012 Comments: I believe the state of Oregon and the university administration always has my best interests at heart and should make all decisions concerning my pay and benefits.…
This blog is not associated with the UO Faculty Union. But obviously this union needs an elected leader and an executive committee. Unofficial nominations accepted in the comments. Please reserve this for leadership nomination related comments.
3/23/2012: Sent to me and I believe all TTF’s this AM: Dear Colleagues, Many tenure track faculty members have expressed concerns regarding the union’s proposed bargaining unit. We have put together a petition for those TTF members that share our concerns. The ERB has informed us that we can file…
from the University of Illinois, because of his “dictatorial managerial style”. Glad to see faculty are regaining their traditional governance power somewhere. Thanks to Margaret Soltan for the link. 3/22/2012.