but votes to let her spend more money on consultants. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG here.
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Senate Meeting Agenda – June 3, 2015, 2014-2015, Agendas 115 Lawrence, 3:00-5:00 p.m. 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 April 15, 2015 2.2 May 13, 2015 2.3 May 20, 2015 3:05 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Report from the Academic Council on Academic Integrity:…
Noah McGraw has an excellent report on the work of Alfredo Burlando, in the Emerald here.
Diane Dietz uses the case of UO’s Lambda Chi to ask these and other questions, here.
The administration’s bargaining proposal to cut real faculty pay is here. The well is dry, Jamie Moffitt is telling us. And that’s what she’s going to tell the UO Board of Trustees in their closed session on union bargaining on Friday.
But forensic accountant Howard Bunsis thinks Jamie Moffitt is wrong. And he’s got the data to prove it. The UAUO faculty union has now posted the full Bunsis video, in all its glory:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/
The 82 powerpoint slides are here, but I encourage you to watch the video to get the explanations. Bunsis gives these sorts of talks at universities all over the country, and he has done a particularly thorough job for UO:
I don’t see any redactions – unlike Moffitt’s:
The RG has the story here, from the AP’s Jonathan Cooper: SALEM — The presidents of Oregon universities are pledging to limit tuition increases if the Legislature agrees to increase higher education funding over the next two years. University administrators have spent most of the year pushing aggressively for a…
Wednesday June 3: Committee meetings Thursday June 4: Full Board Friday June 5th: Executive session on union bargaining, board members meet with faculty and staff I’m doing some spotty live-blogging below. I’ve put the headings and some items of potential interest in bold in the agendas below, check the Agenda links for the…
Hello Professor Harbaugh, I am so sorry for the confusion however, I just sent in my course evaluation thinking you were another one of my professors! You both have the name William. Please disregard what I wrote although you may be a great singer and guitar player that was meant…
UO has two VPAA’s, a hangover from Mike Gottfredson and Jim Bean’s byzantine and top heavy org chart: Current VPAA #2 Barbara Altmann is leaving for Bucknell, here are the finalists to replace her: Colleagues: We present, for your consideration, an outstanding pool of finalists for Senior Vice Provost for…
Nik Streng has the story in the Emerald, here. Apparently the athletic department will not let current cheerleaders and the coaches talk to UO’s student press, but Streng has obtained some interesting quotes from others.
Brenda Tracy is the survivor of a sexual assault by two Oregon State football players and two others, 16 years ago. She went public after newspapers broke the story of the alleged UO basketball player gang rape of Jane Doe. John Canzano published Ms Tracy’s horrible and courageous story in the Oregonian,…
25 years ago UW-Madison gave me a full-ride PhD fellowship, funded by an endowment from the professor who figured out how to put vitamin-D in milk, and then gave the patent to the state. Now the Republican Governor and state legislature are trying to destroy the place: They’ve left in the perks for the coaches, of course.…
UO journalism professor Peter Laufer has an Op-Ed opposing anonymous comments in the RG, here: Anonymous online commenting irresponsible What is the rationale — other than a lust for website clicks — when otherwise responsible newspaper publishers allow anonymous commentary to pollute news stories? Professor Laufer is very good on the costs…
From a letter sent May 22nd:
The agendas for meetings this Wednesday – Friday are now posted here. With the UO administration currently proposing to cut the faculty’s real wages, this sticks out:
Here’s an update on the status of the SEIU negotiations. Anyone know anything about the UOPD?