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Provost Search Committee named

Recent Provosts: John Moseley Linda Brady Jim Bean (Interim) Lorraine Davis (Interim) Scott Coltrane Frances Bronet (Interim) Scott Coltrane (Interim) Search Committee announcement: Provost and Senior Vice President Search The University of Oregon is embarking on a crucial leadership recruitment effort: the selection of a new Provost and Senior Vice…

UO GC orders Schnitzer Art Museum to take in sweaty PLC heat refugees

We are open from 11am-5 pm and until the heat advisory is over, admission is FREE! #Eugene #uoregon — Jordan Schnitzer MOA (@JSchnitzMOA) August 19, 2016 8/19/2016: Faculty Union to sue university over cruel and inhumane lack of AC in PLC The NYT has the story here. Just kidding about the faculty union,…

President Schill, GCO & Senate cooperate on interim Responsible Employee Policy

President Schill has, with the endorsement of the Senate Responsible Reporting Work Group, implemented an emergency policy on mandatory reporting. The new temporary policy is here. The Senate’s work group is here. President Schill has approved emergency policy V.11.02 and associated changes to UO’s grievance policy and discrimination policy relating to…

UO students find Rosenblum’s Public Records Task Force has a public records problem

The Portland Tribune has the story here: Written by Kira Hoffelmeyer and Russell Wilson Two weeks ago, the state’s top lawyer revealed how she wants to fix what she calls a “car wreck” — Oregon’s troubled public records law. That’s how Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum described the law when…

RG calls on UO to control “appearance of administrative bloat” and limit tuition increases

Today’s editorial here: … A visible effort by the UO to bring costs under tighter control, however, would influence lawmakers and donors alike. Such an effort could begin by restraining both the number and the salaries of university administrators, which have expanded in tandem over the past decade. No potential…

UO hires Amanda Walkup to defend against Pavel lawsuit

The Docket is here.Walkup’s website is here. Pavel is represented by Marianne Dugan. Amanda Walkup is one of the many lawyers Doug Park and Scott Coltrane hired to investigate me and the UO archivists over the Presidential Archives release. Walkup seemed pretty efficient and interested in getting at the truth. While she wouldn’t…

UO gets $237K to develop early athletic-scandal warning system

With the Ducks now well overdue for the next devastating scandal, The Oregonian has the news here: The NCAA estimated it will cost more than $38 million to finish the early-detection system and create a public alert, which would “give administrators a precious few seconds” to help prepare the cover-up “before the sports reporters start filing public records…

UO hires Ombud Brett Harris from Mississippi to replace MacAllister

8/15/2016: Brett Harris, university ombudsperson, recently joined the University of Oregon after serving as the ombudsperson at the University of Mississippi. Brett holds a B.A. in American Studies from Idaho State University and a J.D. from the University of Idaho College of Law with a degree emphasis in Native American…