Just kidding, UO pays its coaching staff whatever it takes, e.g.: On the other hand the university run Vivian Olum day care center has been cutting back on hours, and is now cancelling full days of care for the children of UO faculty and other employees, because they can’t hire…
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I have no idea why they refused to do this for so long, but my guess is bad legal advice from our transparency-phobic GCO: Dear colleagues, Beginning today, Corona Corps will notify instructors if a student in your class has recently tested positive for COVID-19. If you receive a notification,…
That would of course be Oregon State University, here. OSU posts these a few weeks after the end of each quarter. UO used to report quarterly as well, but Pres Schill cut this to every six months – supposedly. Actually, UO hasn’t reported pay since Jan 2021, and that was…
Ken Goe has the story in the Oregonian here: Robert Johnson, who became UO’s track and field and cross country head coach in 2012, has guided the Ducks to 14 NCAA championships while elevating what already had been one of the sport’s premier college programs. Under Johnson the Ducks increasingly…
The Oregon Capital Chronicle has the story: Former Oregon State University President F. King Alexander won’t face any consequences for using university attorneys to respond to a probe into Louisiana State University’s handling of campus rape allegations during his tenure there. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted 3-2 Friday morning…
Makes sense, we all know these pandemics will continue so it’s good to hear that the UO Foundation is accepting tax-deductible contributions to provide well ventilated work-spaces for the most vulnerable unpaid workers and their coaches. Sportico’s Daniel Libit has the news here. Go Ducks! Around the 0 now has…
From https://pittnews.com/article/167927/featured/pitt-faculty-vote-to-form-union-by-wide-margin/ When the UO faculty voted to unionize, I think we the third AAU to do so. Pitt is now the 5th. [I think , let me know if I got that wrong.] Faculty union organizers ran on a number of issues, ranging from health benefits to academic freedom. Some…
Say what you will about WSU, an ag school in remote eastern Washington, but can you imagine UO doing this? We currently have roughly 200 employees who were given religious or philosophical exemptions from the vax requirement, based entirely on clicking a box then self-reporting that they’d watched a web…
Meerah Powell has the story on OPB here: OSU Board Secretary Debbie Colbert laid out for the trustees the proposed timeline for the upcoming presidential search process, to see “if we’re headed in the right direction.” The board is hoping to manage a process and presidential hire that can build…
Our last raise was in Jan 2020. The faculty union agreed to a wage freeze during the pandemic. Bargaining restarts soon. Since those last raises the CPI has increased 6.5%, and if current trends continue it will have increased 8.3% by Dec 2021. Median US wages will have increased about 9%…
I’m going to guess that an over-zealous interpretation of HIPAA by our anti-transparency General Counsel Kevin Reed is behind this latest UO policy: For reasons of privacy and protected health information, instructors will NOT be notified by Corona Corps when a student in their class has tested positive or has…
Last I heard UO had abandoned this initiative along with the whole “research metrics” idea that had been pushed by Chuck Lillis, Brad Shelton, and Elliot Berkman. Faculty opposition and ridicule was one reason, the rest was cost and time-suck. But now it’s back, at least for the Knight Campus.…
you can’t figure out how to make the projector work and tell the class “it’s been a while – this was so much easier in Zoom.”