11/14/2017: Saul Hubbard has the latest in the RG here: … The document does, however, show a split between the university’s Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity and McCoy over how to reprimand Halls, an independent contractor who had just been given a multi-year extension and a raise. After…
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From Round the O: The event, “How Students Used History to Change the Future: The Dunn, Unthank Case Study,” will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the Erb Memorial Union’s Redwood Auditorium.
Update: page down for Student collective motion etc. Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. Video feed. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair “Standard Operating Procedures” are not policies and cannot be used to restrict free speech and don’t let the…
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/11/14/minnesota-states-transfer-pathways-debut-little-controversy
The UO Board of Trustees took authority over student conduct away from the faculty with their 2014 “Delegation of Authority” legislation. The UO Senate’s position on this power grab is that “they can’t discipline our students, only we can discipline our students.” Therefore I am releasing this video of the…
From the Washington Post: Virginia’s most socially conservative state lawmaker was ousted from office Tuesday by Danica Roem, a Democrat who will be one of the nation’s first openly transgender elected officials and who embodies much of what Del. Robert G. Marshall fought against in Richmond. The race focused on traffic and other…
From Colleen Flaherty in InsideHigherEd: “Recently I learned that there is a graduate mentoring award named after (I’m just going to force myself to spell out his name) Jay Fliegelman,” Chu wrote to the society in mid-2016, upon hearing of Fliegelman’s namesake graduate mentoring award. “This man was supposed to…
From UO’s Institutional Research website: Meanwhile Oregon State is up 1.1%. Portland State freshmen enrollment is up 8.8%.
From the Emerald story here. November 6, 2017 Dear President Michael Schill and Trustees of the University of Oregon: We write in a unified voice as representatives of major constituencies at the UO to express our concern with the response of your office to the October 6, 2017 student protest…
10/2/2017: Yesterday three of the students who received discipline letters (copy below) talked to the Senate about why they were going to fight the student conduct charges, rather than plead guilty and accept the administration’s rather mild punishment – a meeting with administrators and a note in their permanent record.…
An Op-Ed in the Oregonian here. Children and young adults should not be pawns in a political battle, but that is exactly what is happening in Washington, D.C., as our nation’s lawmakers debate immigration and border security. …
We covered this in the sixth grade. Did UO’s Johnson Hall leadership skip that lesson? Fortunately our students didn’t.
Presumably the 4:30 open discussion will focus on the student conduct code charges that the administration is pressing against the UO Collective Students. There will also be important info about upcoming decisions on expedited tenure and undergraduate honors. Livestream: https://media.uoregon.edu/channel/ Agenda from https://senate.uoregon.edu/calendar/senate-meetings-2017-18/ Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00…
A University Nets a Huge Donation and Students Protest. What’s Going On Here? … So let us agree that the UO protesters were rude and perhaps misguided. Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young. Does that make their concerns about escalating tuition any less valid, especially considering the optics at play?…
IHE has the latest from my old school Columbia’s president Lee Bollinger here. More to come I’m sure.