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https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2018/11/live_updates_dana_altman_orego_1.html His contract and incentive bonuses are here.
Two interesting processes are coming to a head soon. First is the lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd alleging UO underpaid her for years, despite the pleas of her department head to the CAS associate dean, and the conclusions of an external review committee. See my “Nevertheless she persisted” post here.…
10/16/2018: It’s now three months since CAS Dean Andrew Marcus announced his resignation, over policy differences with the President and Provost, and almost 2 months since they announced a task force to study potential CAS reorganization.
On Oct 31 the Senate’s CAS Caucus elected two senators to the CAS recombination task force: Pedro Garcia-Caro (RL) and Karen White (Anthropology).
But there’s still no news from the administration as to who will fill the remaining 19 slots. If you know anything more please post a comment.
9/24/2018: Provost Banavar appoints Bruce Blonigen to lead CAS, and Karen Ford to work on whether or not to split it up
The August 17th post about Dean Marcus’s resignation is here.
Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar
Update: The WaPo has more here. From InsideHigherEd: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would revamp expectations for colleges’ handling of campus-based sexual misconduct. The regulation — the first the federal government has issued on the matter — was crafted to clarify requirements for colleges and to add…
Bob Keefer has a detailed report in the Eugene Weekly, here.
Unpaid isn’t quite the right word though. Apparently Le Duc paid the consultants. This is nuts. Chief Resilience Officer Andre Le Duc: … The project we are doing with CAS is a pilot project designed to test the tool at a US university. Resilient Organizations has been using the benchmark…
While the empirical evidence that VP’s for Diversity, 5-year IDEAL plans, mandatory implicit bias training, and expensive “Diversity Action Plans” like we have at UO make any difference is at best mixed, this new paper – from a new Princeton economist – makes it pretty clear that having a female…
The NYT has the story here.
This guy always looks so angry. You’d think he’s trying to get appointed to the Supreme Court. At least this time it’s not about his unpaid student-athletes protesting for #blacklivesmatter. The Oregonian has the latest info on the University of Oregon’s second highest paid employee: By Brad Schmidt and Jeff Manning |…
updates: 11/7/2018: Faculty Senate votes to tell president who pushed disastrous big-time sports expansion to retire, calls for Trustee accountability: The University of Maryland Senate passed resolutions Wednesday aimed at improving the way Board of Regents members are chosen and affirming the body’s support for President Wallace Loh’s retirement. The…
He’s out. He was given a difficult task with many difficult masters. I will delete any further comments about Mr. Klinger as moot. That said I am happy to post comments on who might replace him, how the search should be conducted, and advice to the next UO spokesperson on…
That would of course be Oregon State University, where the well-informed and influential Jock Mills regularly posts updates, and even lets UO professors subscribe to them by email. Good luck getting anything this useful from the equivalent office at UO, though they did eventually respond to a public records request…
Dear Colleagues, Daylight Saving Time is upon us, and as the afternoons get darker the Faculty Club remains a beacon of light and cheer. On Wednesday this week we are reserving the corner table for the Biology Faculty. Bruce Bowerman (Chair) will be giving the Six-o-Clock toast. Rumor has it…
11/5/2018 second update: Lynn Frohnmayer: ‘University of Nike’ exploits my family’s tragedy to support a false narrative: To be clear, I think Frohnmayer was wrong to have UO join the WRC and I sent Knight a letter saying that at the time. To paraphrase Karl Marx, it’s capitalism and people…