From Raghu’s always informative Eighteenth Elephant blog. Read it all, this is just a snippet: Our Provost at the University of Oregon has stepped down, and there’s a call for nominations for a new one. The search will be internal, i.e. the next provost will be a UO faculty member. Bill Harbaugh…
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May Legislative Update With the June 30th deadline for adjournment just over a month and a half away, the Oregon Legislature is nearing a final vote on a $2 billion revenue package, is considering over 90 amendments to a comprehensive joint “carbon action plan,” and is considering various proposals for addressing…
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;…
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…
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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: