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No progress on faculty pay

Update: KEZI’s Susan Gager has a story on pay and the union effort, with a brief interview with Prof Dan Pope. 5/3/2011: Professors Sarah Douglas and Marie Vitulli have prepared a careful comparison of faculty pay at UO with that of our “comparator” institutions, and posted it on the UO…

Great news on ORI building

5/2/2011: Two press releases announce what seems to be an excellent resolution of the ORI / Riverfront Research situation. ORI will get a building south of the millrace Millrace Drive, in the area already under development. No further development in the RRP will happen without a plan and a public…

Gladiators:

BOSTON — The suicide of the former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson became more alarming Monday morning, when Boston University researchers announced that Duerson’s brain had developed the same trauma-induced disease recently found in more than 20 deceased players. The diagnosis adds a new and perhaps pivotal chapter to football’s…

UI-Chicago faculty go union

5/2/2011: From Kevin Kiley at Insidehighered.com: One major argument that organizers said stuck with faculty members was that professors consistently felt like they had no voice in university governance. … AFT and AAUP are currently working with faculty members at the University of Oregon to establish a union there, though…

Trumped

Update, 4/27/2011: One week after my post below, Barack Obama finally released his long form birth certificate. Coincidence? Every other sentient being on the planet may think so, but not me and this other guy with a website. With the help of Donald Trump and Oregon Attorney General John Kroger,…

VP Russ Tomlin open forum:

Update, 4/27/2011: I went to today’s faculty forum, moderated by Larry Singell. It was well attended, and people seemed relatively open about speaking their minds. The review committee made it very clear that they would not report quotes or attribute statements to particular speakers, and that people were free to…