9/18/2019 update: UO Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has still not responded to my public records request for her documents involving this latest in a long line of trustee appointments made in back-room deals, without campus input. On Friday UAUO President Chris Sinclair, UO Senate Immediate Past President Bill Harbaugh (me),…
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Update: As a regular reader points out, even after these “concessions” the offer still amounts to a real pay cut for many staff: 9/15/2019: That’s the rumor from a usually reliable source. I guess the bucket wasn’t empty after all. SEIU’s system-wide strike vote is tomorrow. Meanwhile the UO’s administration’s…
The LA Times has the story here. It took place while current UO General Counsel Kevin Reed was chief lawyer at UCLA, and it was a precursor to the “Varsity Blues” investigation that’s just led to jail time for some actress. Reporter Nathan Fenno: Five years before William “Rick” Singer became known…
I have no idea. The BOT’s webpage says nothing about a vacancy. The August 26 generic press release from Governor Brown is here. The list of appointments is here, and includes this: The Senate Rules committee is supposed to vote on these next week, but their webpage has nothing yet.…
Here. More on Lananna here.
I can hear the champagne corks popping in Johnson Hall. Jennifer McCall tried hard to improve the state’s transparency problems and had some success. Apparently a little too much success. From Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek: … In a separate letter to Brown, McCall was more forthcoming about the reason for…
At least I assume that’s what he’s complaining about. From the RG here: “I’m committed to working with our graduate students, with our classified staff, and faculty,” Schill said. “I do worry as we move forward in these contract negotiations about the type of behavior we saw at our last…
Trump’s PR flacks warn administrators not to contradict him about the Alabama Hurricane forecast: Schill’s PR flacks warn administrators not to contradict him about the LERC and Museum budget cuts:
A new PNAS paper concludes: … Comparing passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental approach and identical course materials, we find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. We show that this negative correlation is caused in part by the…
Budget crisis? That’s just for the academic side. The heavily subsidized Duck athletic program is paying Nevada $650K. From the USAToday database here.
From reporter Michael Tobin in the Emerald, here: … In addition to being out of compliance with federal rules, the audit also found that some of the department’s firearms lack acquisition records. Of the 121 firearms UOPD acquired since 2012, 18 did not have records documenting their acquisition. Of the 18…
Follow Emerald Reporter Ryan Nguyen on twitter at https://twitter.com/ryanjjnguyen. It sounds like an interesting meeting – maybe a little too interesting for our bosses: Schill encourages those in the community, including labor unions, to be honest, transparent and respectful. He adds that we don’t need to be disrespectful when you…
About $23K each. Most of that will come from regular UO undergraduate students’ tuition payments, to discount the tuition of mostly out-of-state law school students: According to the terms of this 2014 MOU the law school was to get a temporary bailout from UO’s general fund, peaking at $3M, then…
It seems that outsourcing is not exactly the cost saver that he’d promised: But that doesn’t seem to have hurt his salary: His budget increase would fund a 10% raise for the GTFF.
Here: In calling for the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission to reconsider its prioritization of science, technology, engineering, and math subjects in how it distributes state funding to state universities (“Oregon shortchanges the liberal arts. What the HECC?”), The Register-Guard editorial board misses several critical points about the existing funding…