An excellent article by reporter Brady Lim, read it all here. A few snippets: If passed, the bill would allow student-athletes at California’s 24 colleges and universities to be paid for “the use of their name, image and likeness.” In other words, student-athletes at these schools would be allowed to…
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From a generally reliable source. The UO staff are in the same bargaining unit as staff at all Oregon public universities, so they bargain a system-wide contract. In the past, UO has pressed for more generous contracts than the other universities wanted (if you call paying people for their work…
You wouldn’t know it from Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms minimalist website, but rumor has it the Sept 5-6 meeting of our Board of Trustees will be in Portland. Classes in Eugene start October 1. Maybe they have something urgent to vote on, like another round of raises for the coaches…
No they didn’t. The Administration *bargains* with the GTFF. The Mediator *mediates* between the Administration and the GTFF. That’s pretty much the whole point of mediation. And while I’m on it, why is the Administration still claiming they are “the university?”. I thought Frank Stahl won that one. And while…
Specifically philosophy professors, but the argument is more general. In the NYT here: … Whether you call it a “petition,” an “open letter” or a “public statement,” this type of document is distinguished by the fact that after stating and arguing for a position, it lists the names of people…
That’s the rumor from yesterday’s match down at the Faculty Club’s polo grounds. Lillis’s 2nd 3-year term as chair of UO’s Board of Trustees is up in December. Raymund is an Econ grad, a wealthy self-made businessman, the current chair of Paul Weinhold’s secretive sports-obsessed UO Foundation board, and a…
The Eugene Weekly’s Bob Keefer pans the Knight Campus’s still under-construction “bridge to nowhere”, here. While I agree it’s not up to the architectural excellence of, say, the Hayward Field Phallus, it will provide the perfect location for students and union members to hang protest banners from – with none…
That would be at OHSU. From the Portland Business Journal, here: In a bizarre turn of events, Oregon Health & Science University President Dr. Danny Jacobs apologized after the head of human resources resigned amid a Twitter trolling incident targeting an employee union. Patrick Frengle had made anti-union posts on…
Of course I’m kidding. We’re in a budget crisis. So the Administration is going to renovate administrator offices in Johnson Hall. What a surprise. RFP here:
His name is Tim Inman. He comes to us from the Oregon Legislature, where he was chief of staff for Speaker of the House Tina Kotek. He was hired by former provost Jayanth Banavar back in December, but he was busy with the legislative session that led to UO’s 7%…
In the RG here: Departments that saw the most job cuts, according documents received through a public records request, were Campus Planning and Facility Management with five positions impacted, the School of Music and Dance’s Oregon Bach Festival with four jobs eliminated, and the Business Affairs office and the Lundquist…
Didn’t the architects promise this thing would be made with cross-laminated timber? Maybe that was just to appease Gov. Brown. I’m no structural engineer, but this sure looks like steel. But I see they’re now slapping some woodish stuff on the sides, so whatever:
That’s the rumor from a generally reliable source, who reports the ask to ASUO is coming from VP for Student Life Kevin Marbury. Pres Schill got a donor, but apparently CPFM low-balled the construction estimate and they don’t want to go back to that well. No word yet on whether…
Slightly more. I have no idea what to make of these data:
You wouldn’t know it from today’s Around the O post on the administration’s bargaining proposals, but the US Western Region CPI-U has been increasing at about 3% for the past few years: Assuming that continues, the “salary increases” the UO administration is offering the GTFF union will amount to about…