From Director Steve Mital, here. Apparently it’s not just about the Urban Farm, which is more popular with our students than Duck Athletics.
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9/19/2014: Academic leadership retreat: 9/16/2014: Brad Shelton and Jamie Moffitt have led a JH takeover of CAS discretionary spending, and CAS has in turn has taken control from the departments. So even aside from the reports on a possible GTF strike and upcoming faculty negotiations, this should be an interesting meeting: CAS…
The bargaining for a new faculty union contract starts in January. UO’s IR department has just released the data from the AAU Data Exchange on UO faculty salaries, pasted below. Full data, by department, here. I’ve added a spreadsheet showing the salary and comparators for our Johnson Hall administrators below that. (Note…
The NYT has the disappointing news on the exchange rate.
The Chicago State University faculty muckraking blog has the story, here. The Chicago Tribune reports that the board recently lost a $3M lawsuit to a whistleblower over a retaliation lawsuit, and it is now being sued again by the faculty bloggers and FIRE. Their president and board are trying to…
9/18/2014 update: Excluding duplicates, UO has received roughly 40 public records requests in the 90 days since June 18. Log here. That’s roughly two requests every three working days. They’ve got two staff, plus help from the GC’s office on redactions. Some requests are complicated, but many are simply asking…
$10M for an academic building, from a generous UO alum and spouse. “Around the 0” has the story, here.
9/17/2014: Justin Wise has the story in the ODE, here. After Brandon Austin you’d think Dana Altman would be a little more careful vetting his players, but apparently 2 of his new recruits have failed to meet UO’s academic standards (or those of the notoriously lax NCAA). No word if Lorraine Davis’s Special Athletic Admits Committee approved them. The IAC will take up a resolution tomorrow (below) to appoint a member to her committee.
9/17/2014 update #2: Page down for the response from the District Attorney’s Office to the UO Public Records Office, and interim General Counsel Doug Park. 9/17/2014 update #1: Page down for a new letter to the District Attorney’s Office, with a cc to Mr. Park. 9/16/2014: Here’s my polite followup…
Blog post here, full article by Bramhall here: … Continuing disinvestment in higher education across the country has led to an overreliance on contingent faculty. According to “The Just-in-time Professor,” a report issued by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in 2014, in 1970 contingent faculty made up about…
Shang warns of liability issues with current situation, proposes special programs for athletes, frats, mandatory training for students, etc. Oh wait, this document is from 2010, and VPSA Robin Holmes and AD Rob Mullens seem to have ignored most of its recommendations. Never mind. Congrats to Coltrane’s SARP for finding…
The Register Guard has the news, here: The university’s conduct, however, generally is more open than it was before July, when the university was governed by the state, Harbaugh said. University administrators detailed their future plans during the open parts of the day’s long meetings. “It’s a big improvement over…
Former President Gottfredson’s biggest fundraising success was $10M for a softball stadium. Press release here. Unfortunately Campus Planning estimates the stadium will cost us $11M: I wonder what hidden strings this gift came with. I should know, since I’m on the Senate committee charged with reviewing these athletics gifts. But…
9/14/2014 update: Diane Dietz of the RG – also booted by the board – explains what this secret meeting was really about. Sports. Of course. 9/13/2014 Brails update: I was politely evicted from our the Board of Trustees’ Saturday breakfast “legal training meeting” with Interim GC Doug Park. It was supposed to be…
In the NY Times: The National Football League, which for years disputed evidence that its players had a high rate of severe brain damage, has stated in federal court documents that it expects nearly a third of retired players to develop long-term cognitive problems and that the conditions were likely…