4/10/2012: A report from our Quebecois correspondent: Tuition hikes and student strikes What do Oregon and Quebec have in common? Six letters, beginning with a round thing, and an e in third place. But perhaps not much more. Take the student protest movement that has kept many students away from…
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4/10/2012: From the United Academics Facebook page: April 4, 2012, forty-four years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while advocating for the right of public sector workers to organize, the UO administration and its legal counsel – and Frohnmayer’s private legal firm – essentially declared…
4/9/2012: From a lawsuit filed in federal court, asking for $10,000 in damages from UO after DPS stopped 2 people riding bikes without lights. (PSO is “public safety officer”): I have a great deal of respect for UO’s public safety officers, who regularly deal with bad actors like this with…
4/10/2012 Update: Emily Schiola reports still more election craziness in the ODE. 4/9/2012: Two “slates” made it through the ASUO student primaries, voting in the final election runs all week. The “We Are Oregon” slate is made up of frat kids and looks like a front for the athletic department…
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4/8/2012: Jack is in a nasty fight with a divorce lawyer and needs our help. Go here and vote for him.
Of course I’m not talking about UO. This is President Wim Weiwel at PSU. Oregonian story here. Link to their pretty transparent finance and administration page, here. Compare it with UO’s VPFA’s pretty but uninformative website, here. 4/8/2012.
4/7/2012: Word down here at the faculty club is that Frances Dyke and Jim Bean have left UO with $15 to $30 million in unfunded obligations. Jamie Moffitt thinks she can patch it up though. Or at least that’s what I think I’m hearing, the music’s pretty loud.
4/7/2012: I’m no law professor, or $600 an hour union busting lawyer $600 an hour defender of faculty members’ right to negotiate individually with the administration, but it seems obvious that a key point in the formation of a UO faculty union is the definition of the term faculty. On…
4/5/2012: From a Josephine Woolington story in the ODE on last term’s basketball fight: “It’s not wrong to videotape us (DPS). That’s OK,” said Carolyn McDermed, acting chief of DPS. “The cellphone was seized because it contained evidence of the crime. It was pertinent to the case.” DPS still has…
From the RG. Prison time for cheating the yuppies with fake organic corn?
is not getting a lot of respect from the Oregonian’s Steve Duin.
4/3/2012: From Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Teachers at Reynolds Arthur Academy in Troutdale spurred the biggest gains in individual students’ reading and math scores of any elementary charter school in the nation the past two years. For that, a national charter group soon will hand each of them and…
At PSU. A reader sends this, by Jennifer Schuberth, an assistant professor of religion at Portland State University: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/04/psu_stakeholders_need_transpar.htmlOn the question of whether a faculty union will promote more transparency and a “better” allocation of resources by the administration: “Like many students and faculty, I have been frustrated by the…
3/31/2012: A reader asks: What should an appropriate system of retention at UO look like? What is the current policy? Should the UO adopt a preemptive retention offer policy for certain categories of faculty? Does it have one now? Obviously more productive faculty with better outside options should get paid…