DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. All times are estimates. 3:00 P.M. Call to order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:10 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and April 24, 2019 3:11 PM Business / Reports: Update: Knight Campus and Bioengineering program;…
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The VP for Enrollment is forecasting a decline in in-state enrollment and an increase in new out-of-state students, which however will barely offset the decline from graduating students. It seems not every parent wants to send their child to Rob Mullens’s Duck branded big-time sports party school, especially one that…
The list of candidates is here. I have it from a generally reliable source that the ballot is now working – log into duckweb to vote! Voting closes NEXT Friday at Noon.
While President Schill is cutting $9M from the academic budget, and about to propose 10% plus tuition increases. You can’t make this shit up. From reporter James Crepea at the Oregonian: “(The speakers) did not pop,” Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said. “What happened was there was a technical difficulty…
Hannah Kanik has an excellent explanation of what happened here. Chuck Triplett has a long history of hiding things from the faculty at UO, and at his previous job at OUS, and it seems unlikely that he’ll face any disciplinary action for this latest.
5/3/2019 update: The EW’s Camilla Mortenson has a brief report on the case here. The full opinion is at https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/093-19-05-02-Opinion-Order.pdf. The full docket is here.
4/11/2019 update. Arguments about to start. More later.
4/8/2019 update: UO’s attempts to dismiss Freyd lawsuit include redefining “Professor”
Full disclosure: I am not a lawyer.
That would be UO President Paul Olum, in 1981: Thanks to an anonymous reader for the link.
5/1/2019 update: Thanks to a reader for the tip on Lim. https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/finalists-named-for-libraries-dean-search/ The rumor on Molleda leaving is now widespread, apparently he’s their favorite or close to it. Both are, from what I hear, widely respected for how they have handled some tough times at SOJC and the Libraries. I…
https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-team-helps-show-bonobos-and-chimps-both-love-meat
4/30/2019 update: Now official, according to reporter Michael Tobin, in UO’s newspaper of record, here. Meanwhile the UO’s Twin Eden’s partnership with Gabon continues under the leadership of former Ambassador Eric Benjaminson – at least according to the official UO PR website here. 4/22/2019: Or at least that’s what the University…
The latest evidence of the failed promise of Oregon’s independent boards: HECC Embarks on First-Ever 10-Year Strategic Capital Development Plan for Public Universities To learn more about the project and university stakeholder meetings, see www.oregon.gov/highered/10-year-capital-plan Salem, OR – The Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) has embarked upon an in-depth process…
One of many emails showing the closed insider process by which UO’s Trustees are appointed and re-appointed:
Since the CAS Dean’s blog does not allow comments, I’m reposting it here. I will note that, unlike the other Deans, Bruce Blonigen and the CAS leadership regularly meet with the CAS Senators in the “CAS Caucus”: CAS Leadership Update Continuing our approach to sharing the top items that CAS…
Even a half-competent university general counsel knows how to use Oregon’s anemic public records law to help his president hide public records from the public. Trust me on this. The fact that PSU’s general counsel is not willing to do that for President Rahmat Shoureshi means Shoureshi’s days are numbered. …