Thanks to an anonymous reader for the forward: Date: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:18 PM To: “[email protected]” <[email protected]> Subject: law-fac-staff: We’re #1! Thank you for your support and enthusiasm – and for putting up with my incessant updates! I am so very proud to say that the School of Law…
Posts published in “Uncategorized”
In the RG here. Next up, a new provost to replace Scott Coltrane.
During the first faculty union contract bargaining sessions The University’s bargaining team of Sharon Rudnick, Tim Gleason, and Doug Blandy spent hours haranguing the faculty union team about a “civility” policy – by which they meant a prohibition on faculty criticisms of the inept Mike Gottfredson and his Johnson Hall…
Let me be the first to congratulate former Interim UO President Bob Berdahl (left) on his courageous support for Better Oregon’s Measure 28 ballot initiative, which is the only proposal on the table that would increase tax revenues by enough to allow the sorts of increases in higher education funding that he calls for…
Live-blogging will be light. Watch Live Senate Meeting Agenda – May 18, 2016 3:30 pm Introductory Remarks, Senate President Randy Sullivan 3:30 pm 1. Call to Order 3:30 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 May 11, 2016 3:32 pm 4. New Business 3:32 pm 4.2 US15/16/-25: Scheduling of Examinations Policy; Undergraduate Council and…
The Senate webpage with the policy proposal and amendments is here. The Senate blog is here – many interesting comments. Some History of the Responsible Employee policy, from the GCO: Prior to February 2016, UO Policy, set forth in Oregon Administrative Rule 571.003 governing Grievances, required all UO employees to report instances…
Insidehighered has the latest here. The UO story is here.
The NY Times has the news here.
And so it begins. Andrew Greif has the story in the Oregonian here. The complaint to the federal court is here:
The 20126 election results are here: http://senate.uoregon.edu/content/2016-elected-committee-results There are two runoff elections, due to ties. Vote by Friday. Login to Duckweb at https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin University Senate: Only CAS Natural Sciences faculty will vote between Elliot Berkman, Psychology: When considering poverty, our national conversation tends to overlook systemic causes. Instead, we often blame the poor for their…
DENIED: So HLGR’s $25M loss to the family of dead smoker Michelle Schwarz stands:
The Oregonian’s Andrew Theen has a long piece on the results so far from the legislature’s decision to breakup George Pernsteiner’s OUS empire. Worth reading it all. He notes the record $665M in state funding this biennium. Here’s his take on UO: In retrospect, everyone agrees the old Oregon University…
Dear colleagues, Over the past few weeks we have announced the appointments of a new vice president for research and three deans—an unprecedented series of leadership hires that are critical for the University of Oregon’s future and ability to achieve excellence. I want to extend my deepest thanks to Brook…
Here’s a bit from Athletic Department Director Rob Mullen’s July 2012 planning document, full pdf here. Price elasticity is the top threat to Duck Athletics, followed by the NCAA, and Professors Harbaugh and Tublitz: RG sports reporter Steve Mims reported on the elasticity threat w.r.s.t. Dana Altman’s basketball team back in March, here:…