It takes our well paid army of PR flacks more than a week to get UO’s payroll numbers? Saul Hubbard’s story on PERS costs is here: … The Register-Guard requested budget figures from the cities of Eugene and Springfield, Lane County government, the Eugene 4J, Bethel and Springfield school districts, the Eugene…
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Around the O has the report: … A recent estate pledge from Jim and his wife Mary — an estimated $5 million — is a step in the right direction. “This was a way to help out in return for what the school gave me,” said Rothwell, who worked 26 years…
Subject: deptcomp: Transform IT town hall meetings DATE CORRECTION Date: October 4, 2016 at 8:24:15 AM PDT To: Departmental Computing <[email protected]> In the message sent this morning, there is a day/date mismatch. The correct date for the December meeting is Friday, December 2. Here is a revised list of those…
Dear Campus Community, The fall academic term is off to a fantastic start. I am proud to have welcomed to the University of Oregon our most diverse class of students ever, dozens of exceptional new faculty and staff members, and many additional graduate students—in addition to welcoming back our existing…
Analysis from the State Legislative analysts, here.
The LCB has been without a permanent dean since Kees de Kluyver “retired” in spring 2015, to take a year’s leave at full pay, and give up his tenure. Nutter seems like a great hire, who will add some real diversity – as in diversity of thought – to UO’s…
Good idea – but a blog without comments? Chickens: From: CAS Dean <[email protected]> Subject: [Cas-allemps] Announcing a new internal communication vehicle, Thinking About CAS Date: October 6, 2016 at 8:03:00 AM PDT To: “‘[email protected]'” <[email protected]> In the spirit of open communication and fostering a lively exchange of ideas, the CAS…
The search committee is here: Paul Elstone, Sr. Associate Vice President, Development, [email protected] Jennifer Espinola, Dean of Students, School of Law, [email protected] Ibrahim Gassama, Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Tom Lininger, Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Mohsen Manesh, Associate Professor, School of Law, [email protected] Michelle McKinley, Professor, School of Law,…
Will Campbell of the ODE has a brief report on the meeting here. Senate Meeting Agenda – Oct 5, 2016 Location: Gerlinger Lounge; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 1.1 Introductory Remarks, Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:05 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 May 25,…
The new Senate blog is part of the new Senate website at senate.uoregon.edu. The blog link is in the upper right hand corner. Anyone can see everything, and anyone with a uoregon.edu email can post comments – your email address will show up as “author” (there’s a log in screen first,…
Oh good, another college-athlete sues the NCAA cartel. Docket here, complaint here: Blurb from BG&S law firm here: DAWSON V. NCAA AND PAC-12 CONFERENCE: ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT Lamar Dawson (“Dawson”), a former University of Southern California student-athlete, filed suit against the NCAA and Pac-12 Conference. In…
Dear Colleagues, As we embark on a search for our next provost and senior vice president, the Provost Search Committee is eager to hear from the campus community about the qualities and attributes you would like to see in our next provost. My fellow committee members and I invite you…
9/29/2016: In response to questions about how likely it was that Professor Dunn was duped into becoming the leader of the Eugene KKK in the early 1920’s, I asked Elizabeth Peterson, the cinema studies librarian and film archivist in the UO Libraries, about local showings of “The Birth of a Nation”, the infamously…
As he should be. Diane Dietz has the report from VP for Everything Roger Thompson, on UO’s class of 2020 here. It’s mostly good news, and for once there’s no BS about how students come to UO for the winning Duck football team and our big-time sports party-school brand. And take note, freshmen. You’re the class…
You can’t make this shit up. Coach Dana Altman berates his players about their #BlackLivesMatter protest, AD Rob Mullens has a policy allowing athletes to be kicked out for failing one piss test for *legal* pot smoking, former cop Tom Hart is paid to monitor how players use social media and PF flack Craig Pintens…