It appears to be a flagrant violation of the First Amendment and the Oregon Constitution, but presumably our leaders think they can use it as a threat against troublesome faculty and students until FIRE brings a lawsuit. My first reaction to this was disbelief, and in case yours is the…
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3/1/2022 update: Thanks to Connie Ballmer, and to Mike Schill for his successful efforts to bring in gift money to support UO’s mission. This is a huge gift targeted to an important issue. It appears to be a good combination of research, teaching, and service to the state. Just what…
From Nature (thanks to a generally reliable correspondent): … Staff risked their personal safety to teach in person during the pandemic, and many have reported frequently working weekends, says Jo Grady, general secretary of the UCU. “The fact that we love what we do makes us easily exploitable,” adds Leach.…
In a bold move, President Schill took to the RG Op-Ed page today with data showing that UO’s faculty are underpaid relative to their peers, arguing that pay increases would improve UO’s teaching and research performance. 2020-21: But of course I’m kidding about what Pres Schill wrote. His op-ed below…
The comprehensive 2014 report is here: https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Annual-Report-Academic-Year-2014-final.pdf The 2021 report has much prettier graphics and much less information:
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the news that 3 finalists have been selected and are coming to campus. The link that is supposed to take you to the schedule does not. Finalist A is Cass Moseley, (current interim who seems to be doing a fine job). Don’t ask me…
#2 in a series of occasional posts: [Now updated with the latest version of the 2/20 chart] In other news the administration has resumed daily reporting: https://coronavirus.uoregon.edu/cases#cases-by-day
Last year the legislature was considering SB854, a bill to strengthen state oversight of the university’s and boards it established with SB270. The boards and their lobbyists – who ironically are mostly paid with student tuition – were able to weaken the bill to the point it died in committee,…
Zoom at https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96310002361 February 2, 2022 Senate Meeting Agenda Academic Year2021-2022DateFebruary 2, 2022 Call to Order Land Acknowledgment; Renee Irvin “Practicing Trauma-informed Pedagogy in a Time of Political Polarization”; Anita Chari (3:00 – 4:00 P.M.) Intro Remarks; Spike Gildea ASUO updates; Maxwell Ely Approval of the Minutes January 12, 2022…
Thanks to an anonymous IT worker for sending this, about UO’s efforts to prevent IT workers from getting SEIU representation by classifying them as “management”: SEIU 503 is challenging a whopping 60% of all Information Services Division OAs (40+ positions in total) for being mis-classified as “Managerial Positions”, even though…
No disrespect to Mr. Reed intended – this is just the sort of thing he said he would do in his job application letter, and just what Pres Schill pays him to do: PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The NCAA is reviewing the University of Oregon’s relationship to an organization backed…
From https://www.oregon.gov/erb/Documents/UP-014-17_Remand.pdf