Whoops. Thanks to an anonymous source for passing this on, as prepared by one of VP Kyle Henley’s PR flacks, at $115,815 a year. Note the request that Deans etc don’t talk to the press! How Trumpish. If anyone has a copy of the talking points that were prepared for…
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For agenda/motion updates check here. Zoom at https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/303086146 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron Remarks; Senate Vice President & President-Elect Elliot Berkman 3:10 P.M. Approval of the Minutes May 13, 2020 3:15 P.M. State of the University President Michael Schill 3:30 P.M. New Business US19/20-18:…
You’d think the first thing a university would cut during a budget crisis would be some of its money-losing sports – starting with say baseball. Not at UO, where the administration is cutting the librarians. A snippet from the well documented website they’ve put together in response, here: https://www.uolibrariansunited.com/ Like…
Sorry, a stupid joke about a serious subject. Real message from VPRI David Conover below. There is a similar STEM/Academia wide plan for Wed at https://www.shutdownstem.com/. Dear Campus Research Community, Wednesday, June 10th, has been designated as a day when many academics across the nation are collectively speaking out to…
Nice crane. Probably more than needed to de-name Deady. Maybe some customer will request that soon? Well worth following them on twitter, many excellent photos of campus and their good work. More on JH here and here.
Update: This survey will close at midnight Wed June 10. The UO administration isn’t going to do this, and few people would trust them to accurately report the results if they did. So this survey comes from UO Professor Melissa Graboyes. with the support of United Academics. Here’s more info and…
Voting closes on June 12th. Assuming that their membership approves it, this will mean that the faculty at all of Oregon’s public universities are unionized and operating under a collective bargaining agreement with their administration. Details on the OSU contract are here.
Link to their twitter here. For some history on past such efforts for reform by UO’s black students, there’s a good 2019 piece on Around the O, here. While it has the mandatory puffery about the vital roles of President Schill and VP Alex-Assensoh (both on the job market) and…
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From the BBC, in Bristol: Further empirical research needs to be done to determine if all such statues are so poorly attached to their pedestals. 8/21/2018: Video captures UNC students in sensible act of vandalism InsideHigherEd report here. … The move came after years of debate. As many…
In the Daily Emerald, here: … Our university leaders tell us what they — and we — can do about our feelings of outrage, which lie in “education, research, and leadership.” That is not true. University leaders have the power to begin correcting the decades-long momentum in our country toward…
A brave man. Trustees are not supposed to disagree with Lillis in public. I’m sure there will be consequences. I hope there may be action. First he pointed out to Duck AD Rob Mullens that it’s the football players – mostly black – whose unpaid labor earns 75% of the…
Live! I’ll try and add some commentary below, but it’s pretty depressing realizing these are the people who actually control our university, and I’m not sure I’ve got the stomach to watch it all. Befuddled chairman of the board Chuck Lillis needs a little help with the tubes: As usual…
Severance payments to former coaches, from 2015 to present: Presumably the money came from Duck boosters who couldn’t think of a way to support UO’s academic mission, or just don’t care. I wonder if the Foundation and UO Development exempted these donations from their usual administrative and fundraising charges, as…