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Thanks to an alert alumnus for the link. As the story notes UO is not the only university involved in this deceptive scam: … Christina Denkinger wanted something new after 14 years as an elementary-school teacher in Portland, Ore. After shopping around for a course in data analytics last fall,…

Governor Brown spent $40M in state money for this? I like how they cropped out the Phildo and photoshopped in some fall foliage:

No word on the rumors all employees will be required to undergo 23andme DNA tracing to help us complete this form accurately. Strangely, there is no option for you change your “legal sex”.

From Around the 0: Bruce Blonigen, currently the interim Tykeson Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will take the helm of the Lundquist College of Business beginning July 15, serving a two-year appointment as dean. The current dean, Sarah Nutter, has decided to return to the faculty after…

The authoritative Teen Vogue has the take here. A snippet: … The Supreme Court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion legislation that has been law for almost 50 years, will transform so many aspects of daily life in the United States. One will likely be college enrollments. Young people…

UO’s Board of Trustees loves to blame our low faculty pay and constant tuition increases on underfunding by our state government. That is no longer true. I wonder who they’ll blame next? Here’s some data from SHEEO’s latest “State Effort Report”. The median state is Washington, Oregon is 2 spots…

Full post with links here. We are thrilled to announce that we have arrived at a tentative agreement with the administration on our CBA, completing this round of negotiations!  Here are some highlights: We negotiated a raise package and got it implemented January 1, 2022, bringing that benefit to faculty…

Why can’t we be good at both? Because Portland and Eugene don’t have fluoridated water. Nigel Jaquiss has the story here. We’ve legalized shrooms but not fluoride? Anyone know the backstory on that?

This is getting ridiculous. UO needs an effective DEI office. But Schill and Phillips are too scared to fire VP Alex-Assensoh, so they are keeping her and hiring someone else to do her job for her. Fortunately that will only take 0.5 FTE:

After years of overpromised and underdelivered crap like Jim Bean’s “5 Big Ideas”, UO finally has an administrative team with the smarts, energy, and enough credibility with donors and faculty to actually do new things. I like to bitch as much as the next professor, and plenty of reasonable people…

I’m sure this purposefully brain-damaged “IDEAL” climate survey will provide endless busy work for DEI VP Alex-Assensoh and her staff. Might even have to hire some more. UO could have used Harvard’s COACHE survey for about $200K less than Gallup charged, but that would have meant having results that could…

While UO General Counsel Kevin Reed has bragged about his ability to “handle with success” problems such as the rape allegations that have bedeviled Altman’s teams in the past, there’s no hiding the Academic Progress Rate of Altman’s team relative to the rest of the PAC-12, released today by the…

Just kidding, their bonus was just for him. With inflation, your raise will be about -5% real. Dear University of Oregon community, As we prepare to close out spring term and celebrate commencement, I would like to congratulate all our graduates and thank every member of our campus community for…

The nice thing about an external dean hire is they can negotiate new lines and money as part of their start-up. If anyone knows what he was promised for CAS, please put it in the comments. Dear University of Oregon colleagues,It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Christopher J.…