3/22/2012: From Insidehighered: (link now fixed, thanks anon) A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated a former graduate student’s lawsuit alleging that the University of Oregon retaliated against her for complaining about gender discrimination in her doctoral program. Experts said the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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3/21/2012: I’ve got some opinions about the faculty union. But they are not as strong as, say, my opinion that provost Jim Bean shouldn’t be making UO students pay for the jock box and his beamer. Or my opinion that JH administrators shouldn’t be hired in secret, kept on without…
Another update: A chicken writes in the comments: For those who think the bargaining unit is inappropriate, I do think that individuals — not just the Admin. — have a formal right to object. “Interested persons may notify the Board Agent of their specific objections. Such objections must also be…
Everywhere else it’s a slush-fest. Bring extra socks. 3/21/2012
3/21/2012: Dan Dugger in math sends me a link to his webpage of arguments against the union, his full post is here. The union’s own page is here. Professor Dugger’s points include: The United Academics union has acted in a way that does not inspire confidence. The union claims to…
But there’s a lot of repetition and I’m sort of swamped. Please consider limiting your comments.
3/19/2012: Interim President Bob Berdahl thinks the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee is asking too many hard questions about athletics, and he is going to rewrite the committee’s charge to make it easier for the athletic department to have their way with UO. From what I can tell this is…
From the Center for Public Integrity, funded by the Omidyar Network and the Rita Allen Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Rockefeller Family Fund. OK laws, bad follow through. Full report here.
Some of these union comment threads are nasty. On the other hand there’s plenty of good information and interesting opinions too, even if some people just want to vent. In any case I am hardly one to talk, and I am not a censor and I will continue to post…
Updated 3/18/2012: The union organizers tell me they are reluctant to release this information for fear the administration will use it against them, but they tell me they are aware of people’s concern’s and are thinking about how to address them. One informed TTF writes in the comments: … let…
been at the opera. All caught up now.
From the Amherst Bulletin: The vice chancellor for academic strategies for the Oregon University System since 2010, Andrews is one of four finalists for chancellor of the state’s flagship campus. She was the last of the candidates to visit the Amherst campus this week. Chancellor is the UMass system equivalent…
3/16/2012: A Notre Dame philosophy professor muses on the cynical misuse of the term. In the NYT.
Gordon Sayre from English, quoted on the reasons for the UO faculty union victory in IHE: The story also explains that “The university has until April 4 to object to the petition for unionization, according to an official at the Employment Relations Board.” and that Robert Berdahl, interim president at…
That’s UO’s Interim President Bob Berdahl, discussing athletic scandals. Results from a survey of college and university presidents show: Exactly 75 percent of the presidents surveyed said colleges and universities spend too much on athletics, and only one out of every seven — just 13.1 percent— said that the presidents…