The current contract expires next summer, so bargaining would normally start in December. Faculty will get 0.75% across the board (ATB) and 2.25% merit pool raises in January 2018. This proposal is for a contract extension and 2% raises in 2019 and again in 2020. These would be part COLA…
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The highlight of the 2013 UAUO faculty union bargaining was when the administration made us a “take it or leave it” offer that included a one-time $350 lump-sum payment, which Sharon Rudnick and Tim Gleason thought would be irresistible to our underpaid adjuncts and split the union. I checked craigslist…
The 2017-18 city budget is here. “Potential terrorist plots” indeed. I wonder where the budget numbers for UO’s spending are?
A well designed randomized trial from UW-Madison, here. The treatment for hiring committees includes the IAT. This seems like an important result, which suggests the IAT may be a useful teaching tool, despite the recent meta-analysis by Oswald et al. raising questions about its validity as a measure of implicit…
The Chronicle reviews the declining role of faculty in university governance, here. (May be gated if off campus.) As most readers know I was Senate Pres last year, Chris Sinclair (Math) is Pres this year, and I will be Pres again the year after. Many of this article’s points ring…
It’s been awhile since this university has had a good parking scandal. I think the most recent was over free Jock Box parking for Rob Mullens, Vin Lananna and Lorraine Davis, and before that the Knight Arena underground garage. This pales in comparison – though the campus’s El Camino drivers…
Max Thornberry has the details in the Emerald. That’s less than $8K per historian. Meanwhile our VP for Equity and Inclusion is willing to spend $25K in tuition money for just one buzzword consultant.
I’m no economist, but I think they’d call this a violation of the law of diminishing marginal utility: The Elliott Forest package, part of Gov. Kate Brown’s effort to keep the forest under state ownership, drew the ire of local legislators. Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg, said he wasn’t happy about…
Dear friends, I am writing to introduce myself as the University of Oregon’s new provost and senior vice president. As you may know, President Michael Schill asked me in February to join this outstanding institution and I was delighted to accept. I arrived on campus last week, but I have…
Saul Hubbard has the good news in the RG today. The ask was for $100M, but the rest will come next biennium or so. These are the kinds of bonds that are repaid by taxpayers – unlike the $235M the state let UO borrow for Knight Arena. Those bonds are…
Not a surprise, given the long string of public relations fiascoes under Pintens. Odd that there didn’t seem to have been an Affirmative Action compliant search notice on the UO jobs website, but the Knoxville News-Sentinel has the report here: Rob Mullens really can’t afford a repeat of this sort of…
7/2/2017: That’s my takeaway from the various sports columnists, e.g. here and here. 7/1/2017: Another of Willie Taggart’s Ducks gets a DUI charge This time it’s one of his players, not one of his coaches, so at least UO won’t have to pay him $60K to leave. Award winning Emerald reporter…
The RG has the news here. Good for the Oregon DMV!
These politicians should spare us their false outrage over Trump’s request for state voter info. Oregon’s Secretary of State (Brown was Secretary of State until Feb 2015) has sold this info online for years. It’s mostly used by political campaigns, such as those of Governor Brown and Senator Wyden, but it’s…
June Update: Sine die is nigh This issue provides an update and summary of some of the major budget decisions affecting Oregon’s public universities. Last week when the Governor and House and Senate leaders announced they could not reach an agreement on revenue reform this session, both chambers started moving…