Justin Crover has a long polemic in the Chronicle. This is just a brief part of his argument: The humanities have both left and right defenders and left and right critics. The left defenders of the humanities are notoriously bad at coming up with a coherent, effective defense, but they…
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From Franklin Lewis in the Emerald: … Campus Planning says UO needs more athletic fields to accommodate growth and attract students. Opponents say building turf fields on the riverfront is ecologically inappropriate and other viable options exist for the area. …
Hannah Karik has the report from last week in the Emerald here. A few students – presumably not from the Honors College – responded with brief chants of “fuck the Oregon Legislature” as they walked out. Or that’s what I think I heard. Meanwhile the Law School is still offering…
From their union website at http://www.uaosu.org/ Presumably this means they believe they can win a card-check election, and will start soon. Long-time readers may remember that I started out opposed to the UO faculty union, but signed the card once I realized they were going to win, and I’m now the union…
Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda | March 2, 2018 Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom FRIDAY, MARCH 2 – 8:30 a.m. Materials 1. Standing Reports -University Senate President Chris Sinclair – Public comment -ASUO President Amy Schenk -Provost Jayanth Banavar -President Michael Schill 2. FY19 Tuition and Fees: Mike Schill, President;…
CAS Deans Bruce Blonigen and Phil Scher will be at the faculty club tonight, to chat and mingle. Just kidding about the drinks though, it’s a cash bar. Worth a try though. 5PM, go in through the front door at the Art Museum and turn right.
I’ll try to live-blog some of this, and I’ll be there for the public comments Friday, but there are limits on how much of this stuff I can take. Their website makes it as hard as possible to figure out what is going on, so here are the agendas for…
The Senate wasn’t shown a copy of this for the discussion today, but here’s the draft that has been circulating on the listservs for the Town Hall meetings that have been going on, and which are scheduled for Th and Fri. This draft will be used to focus conversations about…
DRAFT Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake Rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair Update from Johnson Hall 3:20 P.M. Approval of Minutes, February 14, 2018 & Consent Calendar 3:25 P.M. Business Clark Honors College; Karen Ford, Divisional Dean for CAS Humanities Discussion:…
It’s not just Nobel Prize winning economists and the UK Research Councils who think the administration’s research metrics plan is a mistake. Ken Calhoon, head of UO’s Dept of Comparative Literature, provides a less mathematical but no less thorough dissection: February 27th, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Mozart wrote forty-one symphonies,…
2/28/2018: Yesterday, after a last-minute meeting between the administration and faculty opponents, the UO administration submitted its request to the city for a Conditional Use Permit that would allow it to put lighted astro-turf playing fields [sorry, I meant “outdoor classrooms”] and some buildings between the railroad tracks and the Willamette. Franklin Lewis has the story in the Emerald The city’s very transparent planning website has the proposal details at http://pdd.eugene-or.gov/LandUse/ApplicationDetails?file=WG-18-0002
The city planning office notes:
… Once the application is received, the City will have 30 days to determine whether it is complete. If it is not complete, the applicant can either submit the missing information/materials within 180 days, or tell the City to deem it complete based on what they already provided. Once the application is deemed complete, we will prepare public notice and the public involvement period will begin.
Conditional Use Permits follow a type III review process and will include a public hearing. You can see the basic event flow for this type of review here. Also, this CUP review will be based on meeting the approval criteria specifically for the Riverfront Park Special Area Zone (found at Eugene Code 9.3725). The most effective testimony makes a clear case as to how a project does or does not meet the applicable criteria for approval.
You can get updates by emailing GIOELLO Nick R <[email protected]> and asking to be added to be added to the list of interested parties.
2/14/2018: Campus planning wins award for euphemism of the month
Dear Humanities and Social Science faculty, Please join your colleagues Scott DeLancey (Linguistics), Spike Gildea (Linguistics), Volya Kapatsinski (Linguistics), Leah Middlebrook (Comparative Literature), Lanie Millar (Romance Languages), and Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) for a discussion of metrics for measuring our departmental research quality and the quality of our graduate programs. The panel…
FROM UOPD Lost and Found information: Greetings, I wanted to take a moment to let you know about the new UOPD lost and found page: http://police.uoregon.edu/content/uo-police-lost-and-found In addition to our voicemail (541-346-3232) and e-mail [email protected] reporting, we now are utilizing an online reporting system for lost and found property. This system…
I have no idea. I’m sure the Trustees don’t either. For that matter the Deans seem pretty mystified too. Here’s a little data I was able to pull from the spreadsheets at https://brp.uoregon.edu/, showing the “total expenditure budget”. I’m sure it doesn’t tell the whole story of how Johnson Hall decided…