Forwarded by a reader. Bargaining with their new faculty union starts in Feb, and bargaining with the legislature and governor has started already. So some “the sky is falling” messaging is to be expected, as when Sharon Rudnick told the UO faculty that we could have raises or wifi, but…
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As documented in this Eugene Weekly report on the demise of the Register Guard, there is now no regular reporter with a higher ed or UO beat left in the state. Diane Dietz was the last. The Daily Emerald does a great job, but has trouble scraping up the money…
Apparently this has been going on for a while. They are asking for supporters to show up at tomorrow’s session. Here’s hoping our new administration is handling it more competently than Scott Coltrane, Doug Park, and Harrang et al did last time. The GTF union web page is here.
Word down at the faculty club is that Chairman Harper has finally relented to Senate pressure and agreed to reopen the Faculty Club tomorrow: Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club opens its doors again this week for the Winter Term, and will continue in operation while university classes are in session.…
That’s the news from the Chronicle of Higher Ed today here by Kristin Doerer (gated if off campus, some clips below) complete with a photo of some squirrelly looking economist: Well, economists do have some experience with the misuse of metrics. From the article: Emily Wu and Kenneth Ancell, two students…
#1 is this Rawlsian maximin clamp: “Tested”? And rejected, according to Harsanyi. My experience was more positive. This cost $6 at Bring Recycling and did its job. If you are in need of a clamp, philosophical or otherwise, you should also check out Lance’s Used Tools just down the street, for their excellent prices…
That would be the University of Texas at San Antonio, and they were released by their Provost, Kimberly Espy. Here at UO, interim HR director Missy Matella spoke to the general membership meeting of the faculty union about UO’s pay equity study tonight. Several faculty asked about why the administration had…
Seems quite possible. The AP, here: HOTAN, China (AP) — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside. Behind locked gates, men and women…
Or at least make an inflated estimate of the cost of finding them? Given that Reed is also the Board’s attorney, you’d think this would be a pretty easy public records request. UO’s federal accreditors require the Board of Trustees to conduct a self-study evaluation every two years: 2.A.8 The board…
Committee Chair Karen Ford says they aim to make a public report in April. That will presumably kick off a campus wide discussion on whether or not to – and if so how to – divide up CAS. Ford has said that she believes the Senate should vote on any…
A letter from Provost Banavar, here: The project, called Faculty Insights, will result in a sophisticated online system that enhances our ability to capture the wide range of research and creative activities that our faculty do. The primary purpose of the system will be to manage the faculty review process…
Oregon’s new Public Records Advisory Council sent its first report to the Governor a few weeks ago. The report notes many problems with Oregon’s Public Records law and with the lack of compliance of public agencies. For example, The report then goes on to note that UO has recently made…
From https://provost.uoregon.edu/task-force-structure-college-arts-and-sciences Task force meeting schedule The first meeting of the task force will be on December 13 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. This meeting will be organizational in nature and is the time for task force members to meet each other, review the goals, and plan. It will be held in Friendly…
Here’s what the Duck student-athletes will get for playing in the Redbox Bowl on Dec 31, courtesy of the Sports Business Journal: Yeah I didn’t know what a Roku is either, but it’s $34 at Walmart. On the other hand their coach Mario Cristobal gets to top off his $2.5M…
That’s the position taken by Lara Emily Barzelon in this NYT op-ed: I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed regulations overhauling how colleges handle sexual assault, which may become law in January, are far from perfect. But there is a big…