Yeah sorry this is late but I really don’t care much either. Board Chair Chuck Lillis is finally stepping down – so far without any of the bankruptcies, lawsuits and pension money raids that marked his service on the WaMu and other corporate boards. I’m sure Uncle Phil has another yes-man lined up to take his place. Tuition increases are smaller than inflation, which is bad because it doesn’t leave much scope for “progressive pricing” scholarships for low SES students. Agenda and materials for yesterday and today:
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- { See Formal description https://gcr.uoregon.edu/proposed-hatfield-dowlin-complex-practice-field-expansion Preso to city with maps https://ompnetwork.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sites/134/documents/cc_powerpoint_7-11-22_uo_project.pdf?6HkkNxuClzeaHndPa6FceLk3UgX4e.Et Glossy https://around.uoregon.edu/content/university-releases-plans-future-indoor-practice-facility }
- { We were "overenrolled" starting around 2012 by two kinds of measurements: (1) We had insufficient classroom space between 9 and... }
- just different { Wait, weren't we overenrolled for undergrad in the early 2010s? I seem to remember that being the case. And didn't... }
- ODA { Also, It looks to me that the only substantial raise for faculty was less a result of the bargaining team... }
- ODA { The enrollment decline looks like a concern to me. It shows a systemic problem in the way we recruit and... }
- Dog { Little of the formatting came through in my response. so (1) - total undergraduate enrollment is what I posted and... }
- The Interim Commenter { Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value. }
- moss defender { can anyone describe for me what new boondoggle land trade UO is proposing near Autzen ? Eugene knucklegraggin media has... }
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- just different { FiveThirtyEight is showing more or less a three-way tie and the National Review sure seems to be happy about Betsy... }
- Mike { There’s some thinking that Drazan and Betsy are going for the same pile, leaving Tina for the win….time will tell.... }
- Richard Bohloff { Knight has some interesting ideas on how UO can play this. Though it seems he's been distracted trying to influence... }
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- Townie { Interesting. Maybe a few years down the line you can post what you know. Hopefully this blog still exists then. }
- { No, he wasn't first or second in this *new* search. Two people turned it down before him. Cannot tell you... }
- Office Lurker { Yes!!!!! Please let that be the way this goes!! }
- Townie { It would surprise me that he wasn’t their second choice. We know he wasn’t their first, that is basically public... }
- uomatters { Chuck Lillis's first choice for UO Pres was Condi Rice, not Mike Schill. Not making that up. }
- { Perhaps you've also heard this one, then. Rumor is that Schill wasn't Northwestern's first choice, or their second one, for... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { I tried to answer here but for whatever reason, it never got posted. }
- Dworkin { The U of O Law School. }
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- honest Uncle Bernie { I agree that the facts matter, but I doubt that the National Review dug that far. Nor, as you hint,... }
- just different { The UW senate recently very narrowly (<100 votes) defeated a similar requirement that required two-thirds of the vote to pass.... }
- Facts Matter { The facts matter here. The article opens with: "The University of Oregon is imposing a DEI mandate on current and... }
- just different { Why should DEI "reach out" to someone so obviously acting in bad faith? Gilley is yet another mediocre attention-seeking schmuck... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Oh, Bruce Gilley, the PSU professor who wrote the (in)famous article about colonialism that almost got him cancelled (plus enough... }
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- honest Uncle Bernie { effin' A! }
- Fishwrapper { Why? Surely that's a rhetorical question - no sense in letting anyone know until it's too late to even bitch... }
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- { Visit them and do the same. }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Speaking of ethics -- honesty pushes me to say the linked article below seems cause for optimism, if not outright... }
- Townie { B) if you are normal and high functioning }
- Pissed Programmer { Keep it, label it as property of the rental, leave it for guests. }
- honest scourge { E. pitch it in the fireplace or rushing river, it is the work of the devil! }
- Dog { E: Convert the guest bedroom into a man cave befitting of your past life choices ... }
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- Serge Protektor { We were so fortunate to have them on the opposing side for the first CBA. }
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- Dog { What? No Athletics first, academics third, statements? }
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- eugenenative { OSU certainly does a better job of educating young Oregonians. Both in quantity and quality. }
- Dog { indeed, what is really infuriating about these current times is a) the art of satire seems to be extinct, b)... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { I concede that others might have different values. The slickest athletics, hanging on in the AAU, a new "Knight Campus"... }
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