From the faculty union: GOTV Rally Today, Monday November 5 11:30-12:15 at the EMU amphitheater Event information: “Join us on November 5 for our Get Out the Vote Rally with Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Jeff Merkley, Congressman Peter DeFazio, and a special guest! With only one day before the election, there…
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Dylan Darling has the story in the RG here. There was no substantive faculty input into the board’s review or decision, but it sets a good lower bound for the next round of faculty union bargaining.
The Daily Emerald’s Franklin Lewis is on the story, here. Thanks to reader for right link.
Faculty Club Chairman Jamie Harper (Art History) normally presents these awards. This year he skipped out and asked me to do it. Thanks Jamie. One member was wearing a blazer, and claimed he was dressed as Jamie. I noted that there were no leather elbow patches. Fail. Another professor showed…
Among the many interesting parts of Josh Hunt’s “The University of Nike” book is this, which is even more relevant now that General Counsel Kevin Reed controls UO’s public records office: Early in 2011, Lisa Thornton took a job as an assistant in the public-records office at the University of…
Dear University of Oregon community, Saturday’s horrific massacre of 11 innocent men and women in Pittsburgh, as they worshipped together, no doubt shocks each and every one of us. It should. The 11 souls whose lives were extinguished were targeted solely because of the god they worship. These killings follow…
You can donate to HIAS, the international refugee resettlement group that the Pittsburgh terrorist despised, here.
I’d say more, but that would be indiscreet. Open again 5-8 Th. Walk in the Art Museum’s front door, turn right, and show the guard your papers.
Just kidding, it’s free flu shots. Do yourself and the rest of us a favor and get one. Drop-in, bring your UO ID and insurance card: The University Health Center is pleased to announce four flu shot clinics for UO students, faculty, and staff: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 7:00–10:00 a.m.,…
10/22/2018 updates: OPR’s Think Out Loud has an interview with Hunt here. I suggest getting to Josh Hunt’s Tsunami talk early, before the lawyers steal all the good seats. You can get the Kindle version of The University of Nike Tuesday as well. Some more links: The NY Times: Persuade someone…
A extensive report here: In a precedent-setting case, an Ontario arbitrator has directed Ryerson University to ensure that student evaluations of teaching, or SETs, “are not used to measure teaching effectiveness for promotion or tenure.” The SET issue has been discussed in Ryerson collective bargaining sessions since 2003, and a formal…
Report here: The 11th Circuit appeals court has just overturned a lower court ruling and said that Georgia’s laws, including annotations, are not covered by copyright, and it is not infringing to post them online. This is big, and a huge win for online information activist Carl Malamud whose Public.Resource.org was the…
an undergrad campus tour leader, talking to a group of 30 prospective students and their parents about the research and teaching excellence of the Lundquist College of Business faculty. Just kidding, actually he was telling them about how the giant yellow O was put up for ESPN gameday, and how…
That would be at the University of Maryland. The Washington Post reports: While most of the facts contained in Maryland Today’s posts may be accurate, some articles omit negative facts necessary to understand what actually happened. … In “University Commits to Follow McNair Report Recommendations,” the author discusses the report’s…
Lananna, who’s on the UO payroll for several hundred large, asked the Governor for $40M in state subsidies. He’s now got $10M. If you think that’s the end of it you haven’t read Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, or Ken Goe’s update in the Oregonian here.
The Oregon DOJ held up Tracktown’s $10M grant from Travel Oregon for a full year by requiring that they provide a budget and a disclaimer that there were no legal issues, despite the FBI investigation. UO and Tracktown told the press that the Feds hadn’t contacted them. Lananna didn’t tell GC Kevin Reed?
The budget and reporting requirements are now hilariously out of date, and Lananna and Reilly’s admission is scrawled out in pen:
What could go wrong? Rumor has it that UO has now appointed an administrator to deal with it all. I wonder who is paying their salary.
The full grant of $10M in state funds is here: https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OR212018_FE.pdf.
10/8/2018 – Tracktown / Oregon21 replaces Vin Lananna with Niels De Vos as head of IAAF 2021 championship
