5/3/2011: In the Oregonian. This is the DAS Facilities Division. They only paid the consultant $90 an hour. The people in charge have been placed on leave by the new DAS Director, and are now under investigation. Meanwhile, UO is paying one of the Huron consultants $250 an hour. I…
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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…
5/3/2011: Joe Moseley is doing a nice job with the “Official Organ” of UO. And I appreciate the fact he’s not competing with my coffee cup sideline.
5/3/2011: From Todd Finklemeyer in the Capital Times: It appears, however, that the faculty senate’s show of support might be too little, too late.“We have learned through visits with key legislators on the Joint Finance Committee on both sides of the aisle that this proposal is not receiving support in…
5/3/2011: It’s a very balanced report, makes clear they understand classroom teaching is a small part of what many professors at a research university do or should do. Calls for Chancellor Pernsteiner to collect data, monitor the situation, implement some sensible policies (most of which most UO departments I know…
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…
5/2/2011: The most recent draft (2009) of UO’s Academic plan is posted on Provost Bean’s website. There are pages and pages of yada-yada, but the meat is on page 9: Institution Size. We intend to increase the size of the incoming freshman class and to grow the campus to a…
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…
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…
5/1/2011: This NY Times article discusses how the UT system is working with state K-12 programs, in some creative ways.
4/28/2011: You can make quite a bit of money in academia, as long as your job does not involve teaching students or doing research. We wrote last year about UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s big raise: As GC, Melinda Grier had been paid $184,710 – this was after 12 years…
4/26/2010: Read it all. Full text here. This is an astoundingly revealing letter to the UO research community, from VP for Research Rich Linton and VP for Finance and Administration Frances Dyke. Both senior administrators are now leaving their jobs. Linton was fired did not have his contract renewed by…
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,…
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…
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5/2/2011: The latest issue of the Oregon Commentator is out, large pdf here. Alex Tomchak Scott tells the story of the guy who rides across campus every morning, screaming about LTD. I didn’t read it all, but apparently Frances Dyke just appointed him Vice Provost for Sustainable Transportation. Ben Maras…