Trustee Connie Ballmer is quitting 3 years early. The normal replacement procedure is for President Schill and Gov Brown to cut a secret deal on a new Trustee for the “Independent” Board that sets his salary and bonuses at a basketball game, with followup by Chuck Lillis’s Board Secretary Angela…
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Provost Phillips is talking about this to the Senate now. Very knowledgeable and sensible. Answering many many questions, earning every penny of his full-priced provost pay. Emphasizes UO is not closing, but practicing “social distancing”. I expect UO’s response plan below will reassure a lot of people who have already…
A generally reliable source passes on this snippet from an email apparently sent to all UO Law students: I regret to inform you that Oregon Law, in consultation with the Oregon Supreme Court, has changed its plan for tomorrow’s scheduled oral arguments. In light of the large number of attendees…
Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. Live cast here. Senators got an email today from Pres Skowron, allowing them to participate on-line. Good call. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron 3:10 P.M. Approval of the Minutes February 12, 2020…
Pretty prescient, from the 2016 contract. IMG pays the Ducks a fee for the right to sell advertisements at games, license Puddles and the O for apparel, etc. Note that this language also lets them off the hook for just about anything else imaginable, including, as I read it, a…
This is the first one to make it through my spam filters. Please post any you get in the comments. Dear Professor Harbaugh, I’m reaching out to you about the on-going COVID-19 outbreak and the ways that McGraw-Hill can help. Recently, several schools have decided to suspend or are considering…
Must be a lot of zeros under there though. I wonder which of Moffitt’s budget buckets it will pour into. From https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_materials_-_full_board_-_17_march_2020.pdf
From InsideHigherEd, here: … Sam Houston State’s proposal links poor collegiality assessments to comprehensive performance evaluations and assisted faculty development plans. Timelines for remediation vary by plan, but the maximum extension of any plan is one year. After that, the faculty member’s fate is in the hands of the dean…
Sporting events and exams may be cancelled, but isolated pockets of civilized life shall survive: Dear Colleagues, This week is the last week of the term for Faculty Club, which will meet this Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00, then resume meeting in week two of the Spring Term. …
Pretty detailed, at https://www.uoregon.edu/sites/www2.uoregon.edu/files/uo-eop_part-111_annex-i-pandemic_060514_rev02-2020.pdf
In the NYT here.
The Oregonian has the breaking news here.
Dear University of Oregon Faculty, As you are probably aware, the coronavirus situation is changing quickly as COVID-19 spreads and there is a lot of concern about how it may potentially disrupt our campus. The UO has fully activated the Incident Management Team (IMT), which is reviewing and updating the…