5/1/2015 update: RETRACTION of “unlawful release”: UO Matters posts confidential faculty personnel records online In response to an email from Johnson Hall alleging that my posting the photo on the left constitutes an “unlawful release” of confidential personnel records, I’m retracting the post, and publishing a redacted version of the records, on…
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Letter from the Emerald news editor: Our coverage is intended to educate those who are unaware of the issue, to engage the UO community in the conversations defining our response to the issue and to inspire every member of the UO community to stand up against sexual violence in their…
Apparently it’s going to cost $732.92 to find out. Long story:
RG columnist Don Kahle’s hilarious 8/15/2014 column on Mike Gottfredson’s $940K buy-out ends with this:
… One of Gottfredson’s final acts as president was to appoint one of his campus allies to serve as the university’s Faculty Athletics Representative for the NCAA. Sports must have been on his mind when he wrote his final letter to the university, which ended with “Go Ducks!”
This was a controversial decision. The UO Senate had already passed a resolution on 4/9/2014 calling for an open search. Gottfredson ignored it. So the Senate scheduled debate on legislation for an open search in May. Gottfredson didn’t show. On August 6th he gave the ~$108K gig to former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, a frequent bowl game junketeer.
I’m not sure what the takeaway from this should be. The Duck Athletic Department is finally yielding to pressure to give some spare change back to UO? Duck donors really will give to the academic side – but only if you twist their arms? The academic side can’t even get $250K out…
Ted Sickinger’s amazing 2011 story on how the people of Oregon came to be paying former Duck coach Mike Bellotti $500K a year in pension benefits is here. In essence, Bellotti PERS payout is based on all the money he got in bonuses and Nike deals, even though the state never…
No I don’t meet another zip drive of public records. I mean the Oregon Supreme Court case on the 2013 PERS reforms. Laura Gunderson of the Oregonian has the details on today’s OSC ruling here: The Oregon Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday harkening back to a basic playground rule: If you…
This previous post explains that in March Coltrane told Clevenger to review expenditures, report back, and freeze hiring in the meantime. Apparently UO is so short on strategic communicators that VP Tim Clevenger has spent $356,014 on help, just at Gallatin Public Affairs. What’s it buying, other than Oregonian editorials…
Meeting today 403 Ford Alumni Center. As usual Johnson Hall has sent Dave Hubin and non-AA compliant hire Chuck Triplett to keep an eye on the meeting and report back. I wonder what would happen if the Senate sent a few members to report to the Senate on what happens…
I don’t know, but they are really trying to hide it: From: Bill Harbaugh Subject: Re: Public Records Request 2015-PRR-228 Date: April 28, 2015 at 11:27:51 PM PDT To: Lisa Thornton Cc: Gregory Rikhoff , Doug Park , Interim President Coltrane , Office of the Provost Dear Ms Thornton –…
On the editorial page, here: Bipartisanship isn’t dead in the Oregon Legislature. It just needs a good motivator sometimes. So in that sense, the University of Oregon has unwittingly helped encourage good public policy in its bumbling and insensitive handling of a March 2014 report that three UO basketball players…
Colleen Flaherty has the story in InsideHigherEd, here. A snippet: There’s been no shortage of criticism, both formal and informal, of how the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign handled the withdrawn faculty appointment of Steven Salaita last summer. (The university has a substantial number of supporters who say it was…
Trigger warning for Dana Altman believers: this film includes some info on UO’s alleged basketball gang rape. Details here.
4/27/2015 update:
To: University Campus Community
From: Robert Kyr, University Senate President
RE: Please Sign Up for Senate & Committee Service—
Final Deadline: MONDAY, April 27, 2015
I am writing with a last reminder that Monday, April 27 is the deadline to sign up for Senate and Committee service through the following qualtrics survey:
Alexandra Wallachy has the story, here: … Moving the school forward was a major theme in the presidential search. A set of frequently asked questions distributed at the presidential press conference twice mentioned Schill’s ability to move the university forward. Where will forward take the university? Don’t expect him to…
Doesn’t sound good about staying in the AAU. Gets asked about how difficult it is to run UO, says not different than other large publics. Here: Coltrane’s schedule for this week is here: The “meeting with faculty member” is with me, to talk about the Senate motions on athletics and…