4/6/2014 Update: President Gottfredson to start this week with a closed meeting with UO Board leadership. Maybe they’ll start the planning for his public 360 degree performance review? FWIW I think Coltrane would be a fine interim president. 4/3/2014: That’s the least troubling of the rumors about administrative disarray, at…
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4/6/2012: You can’t make this shit up: In USA Today.
Update: Oregonian sports writer Canzano supports Duck football union: On Wednesday, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago ruled that Northwestern University football players are employees, entitled to the right to unionize. Well, duh. The ruling applies only to private universities. Oregon and Oregon State players…
I’m not sure that the NCAA can reform itself, too many powerful people are making too much money off the unpaid players. But there’s some fascinating history in this piece by Ken Pendleton of the Sports Conflict Institute: In 1956, the NCAA finally accepted the idea that scholarships could be…
“Regressive bargaining” is the charge. Betsy Hammond has the details in the Oregonian.
Dear Campus Community, I am pleased to provide this update on recent activities of our new governing board. Over the last month, I have met with many alumni, donors, and friends to enthusiastically share the extraordinary nature of our new board and the opportunity it presents. We are truly working…
I thought my office was a mess. But the guy cleaning the windows inside PLC says it’s nothing compared to the Poli Sci profs.
Update: And here’s still more good news from Hannah Hoffman in the Statesman Journal: PERS almost fully funded after boom year. PERS earned 15.8% (Compared to the UO Foundation’s 13.8%). 4/2/2014: Eugene rents are far below most cities where our prospective out-of-state students might go, and the rate of growth is zero. With…
First it was Dave Williford in the NYT, opining on the statistical validity of the relationship between football wins and declining grades. Now Willamette Week is asking why public money is paying for Duck flack Rob Moseley to report on spring practice – which they’ve closed to real sports reporters. I’m…
Originally posted 2/13/2014: Hired by Randy Geller, paid by UO, but charged with helping the trustees fulfill their fiduciary obligations. Hmmm, what could possibly go wrong? Steve Duin of the Oregonian reports on a few possibilities. Job announcement here: The Secretary of the University is responsible for high-level facilitation and…
It’s complicated, I can understand why he’d be confused. Back in May 2012 interim President Bob Berdahl signed this 3 year, $200K deal between UO and Geller: But in January, the OUS Board had passed this policy, making Geller responsible to the OUS board and chancellor. And now Geller is…
That would be former Penn State President Graham Spanier, who may end up doing time because he didn’t realize the university’s general counsel was representing the university, not him. Whoops. Bloomberg has the sordid details, here.
As posted on the Senate website, here: Obviously, this is an important foundational document for our new system of governance, and it has direct implications to the shared governance work of the Senate and its constituencies. Yet none of us among those constituencies was aware of or had read this…
“Around the O” has the details, here.
Law and Philosophy Professor Cheyney Ryan on UO’s sexual harassment training: The new on-line sexual harassment training, which most people have now completed, demonstrates some of the U of O’s failings in this area. I cite two them; there are others. 1. “Conflicts of Interest/Abuses of Power in Sexual and…