This looks to be great news for UO financial transparency. The KU internal audit site is here. Sent on behalf of Jamie Moffitt: Dear Colleagues – I am pleased to announce that Ms. Brenda Muirhead has accepted my offer to serve as the University of Oregon’s new Chief Auditor. She will…
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UO GC and Board of Trustees Counsel Randy Geller tried to sneak a hack-job delegation of authority policy past the university and the board over spring break. He got caught, the board rejected it, and they called for the Senate to provide input on a new policy for adoption in June. The Senate…
While some said the union would be the death of the Senate, actually I think the union has strengthened it. And I’ll give Gottfredson credit too – he or his policies get beat up at every meeting, but he takes shared governance seriously, and keeps coming back. The Senate has…
Inside Higher Ed has the story, here. UO’s Confucius Institute is here.
From a Statesman-Journal story, here.
Greg Bolt was a longtime reporter for the Register Guard. He had the UO beat before Diane Dietz, and he wrote wonderful exposees like these: Feb 2011: Pernsteiner’s TreeTops mansion: Perched on a hill in one of Eugene’s toniest neighborhoods is the one-time mansion known as Treetops. Once the home of…
4/26/2014: That would be the University of Missouri, story here. Meanwhile here at UO, our administration is still trying to write a two paragraph mission statement. Interestingly, the UM plan is focused on increasing incentives to create intellectual property, by making it easier for faculty to own patents and start…
For the University of Illinois – Chicago. Story here: Highlights of the contract, retroactive to Aug. 16, 2012: ■ Faculty will get retroactive pay raises averaging 6.75 percent for the past two years plus a 1-percent raise on top of a campus wage increase next year. The campus wage increase…
Today’s Register Guard has an op-ed on Academic Freedom from the presidents of the UO graduate student union (David Craig), the UO faculty union (Michael Dreiling), and the UO staff union (Carla McNeely): On April 9, the elected UO Senate unanimously approved a statement on academic freedom that is among the…
I’m giving a brief presentation on student debt tomorrow. If you have any interesting links or thoughts, please add in the comments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-college-is-not-a-losing-investment/2014/04/24/b888eac8-cbd2-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html http://qz.com/201256/us-student-debt-isnt-as-scary-as-everyone-says/ http://projectonstudentdebt.org/initiative_view.php?initiative_idx=6
4/24/2014: This is a stunning development from the NCAA, reported by Rachel Bachman in the WSJ. It must be bitter news for UO’s FAR Jim O’Fallon, who has spent his professional life taking away kids athletic scholarships for just this sort of thing: Other changes that the five power conferences are likely to…
The UO Senate voted 2 weeks ago for an open search for the FAR, for faculty participation in reviews, and against letting current FAR Jim O’Fallon to stay on any longer unless he gets reviewed. Today President Gottfredson sent the Senate this non-response: From: President Gottfredson To: Margaret Paris Date: April…
Update: Today, in an open meeting, the UO Senate voted to make Senate committee meetings open.
Meetings of the UO Board and its committees are already open. For example the UO Board Finance Committee has posted notice of a public meeting on May 6, here. The Senate Budget Committee, on the other hand, holds its meetings in secret, and UO VP Brad Shelton has said he will not share important information with the SBC, if they hold public meetings. Weird.
The Senate open meetings motion was proposed in November, and was presented to Dave Hubin and the Committee on Committees several months ago. It was discussed at the February Senate meeting. Extensive comments have been posted on the Senate website, here. The Senate spent about 45 minutes today debating the motion, starting with an eloquent and passionate speech in favor by Jennifer Freyd, one of the sponsors. Rob Kyr proposed a significant amendment to provide a mechanism by which the Senate could address the reasonable confidentiality concerns that have been raised. After discussion, this passed.
The motion then passed, with all but one present voting in favor.
In the ODE, and https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UOBikeProgram&src=hash
4/22/2014: The UA student paper has a bit on Espy’s hiring, here: The criteria for candidates was that they be leaders with the vision and capability to meet the priorities established by the “Never Settle” strategic plan, according to Nikolich-Žugich. The plan’s goal regarding research and development is to double…