8/3/2014 update: On Friday UO’s AA Director Penny Daugherty posted UO’s 2014-15 Affirmative Action Plan. Only a month late, which by her standards is not bad. Some years she doesn’t bother to file it at all. The new PDF is here. The stats and hiring goals are at the back.…
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8/3/2014: Victor Flores has the story in the ODE:
The curtain was still smoldering when law enforcement arrived, according to a UOPD officer.
7/25/2014: Info on Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team’s sexual violence performance
The WaPo reports that the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors will take up this proposal shortly: “Visitors shall publicly support, or at the very least not openly oppose, the Board’s action as a strong, visible consensus facilitates successful execution of policy and strategy.” “Visitors” is the term Mr. Jefferson…
8/3/2014: RG features sustainable cities cluster of excellence: Diane Dietz in the RG, here. 7/17/2014: RG features UO nano-science cluster Diane Dietz has the story here: A lot of the work is done on nanoparticles, which are 1/50,000th the width of a human hair and can only be imaged and…
Jennifer Winters has the hard hitting investigative story in “Around the O, here. Just kidding, Ms Winters is one of Gottfredson’s many paid PR flacks, and her report is just what you’d expect. Gottfredson’s (renamed) “Presidential Review Panel” had secret meetings Wednesday and Thursday. According to the post on his website, Gottfredson…
Benjamin Franklin was a failure as an apprentice chandler. He almost died as a runaway from his second apprenticeship, as a printer. Eventually he figured out what to do with his life. In the end he donated L1,000 in his will to start a revolving fund to lend money to Boston…
UO Admissions has a special committee to vet athletes that don’t meet regular UO standards. Lorraine Davis runs (ran?) it. This was a potential conflict of interest, according to UO’s most recent NCAA review. But UO snuck around the rules and kept her in charge. Presumably her committee approved the Brandon…
Patrick Hruby in Sports on Earth: Zilch. Nada. Bupkus. If you’re a former college athlete with brain damage and/or a neurodegenerative disease, guess what: The proposed NCAA settlement will pay for your diagnosis. And that’s it. Not a nickel for treatment. Not a dime for pain and suffering. The deal’s…
Ellis Lawrence is rolling over in his grave. The RFP closes Aug 1, the bid documents are here:
7/29/2014: Johnson Hall sure is hard on lawyers. In 2010 President Lariviere fired GC Melinda Grier for hiding public records about Mike Bellotti’s contract, then appointed her assistant Randy Geller after what mounted to a failed search for a replacement. (It appears Gottfredson has rehired Grier on the side though). In 2013 Assistant GC Paul Kaufmann left without explanation,…
Hannah Hoffman has the story in the Statesman Journal. Good news for the UO faculty. The reserve funds Jamie Moffitt set aside for increased costs will now be available to bring salaries up to the level Russ Tomlin and Scott Coltrane tried to implement in 2011. The next round of…
7/28/2014: Christian Wihtol has the story in the RG, here: The next legal step for the newspaper will be a lawsuit in Lane County Circuit Court, said Wendy Baker, the newspaper’s general counsel. “The rejection of our appeal leaves us with no option but to file a lawsuit against the…
Chuck Lillis, the Chairman of UO’s new Board of Trustees, wants to raise $2 to $3 billion to get UO back on the AAU track. Gottfredson is not delivering. The word is his style does not go over any better with alumni than it does with students and faculty. Now UO’s strategic communicators…
After paying noted tobacco company attorney Sharon Rudnick and her friends $1M to unsuccessfully argue “The University” couldn’t afford to give these benefits to faculty union members, Gottfredson now wants credit for giving them to the non-unionized faculty and the OAs too. His email manages to try this without once…
Jeff Wright has the story in the RG, here.