There were a few other issues, however. The Pulitzer Prize winning Willamette Week broke the news here. The UOPD reports it has begun an investigation, and is working on some promising leads. Video here. The RG has more here, including some quotes.
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Check her website here for updates, page down for the current links. Among many other resources she provides a link to the recently updated University of Michigan policy, which explicitly excludes faculty from the list of “Responsible Employees”, thereby allowing them to talk to students and employees about sexual and racial harassment without…
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the forward: Date: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:18 PM To: “[email protected]” <[email protected]> Subject: law-fac-staff: We’re #1! Thank you for your support and enthusiasm – and for putting up with my incessant updates! I am so very proud to say that the School of Law…
In the RG here. Next up, a new provost to replace Scott Coltrane.
During the first faculty union contract bargaining sessions The University’s bargaining team of Sharon Rudnick, Tim Gleason, and Doug Blandy spent hours haranguing the faculty union team about a “civility” policy – by which they meant a prohibition on faculty criticisms of the inept Mike Gottfredson and his Johnson Hall…
Let me be the first to congratulate former Interim UO President Bob Berdahl (left) on his courageous support for Better Oregon’s Measure 28 ballot initiative, which is the only proposal on the table that would increase tax revenues by enough to allow the sorts of increases in higher education funding that he calls for…
Live-blogging will be light. Watch Live Senate Meeting Agenda – May 18, 2016 3:30 pm Introductory Remarks, Senate President Randy Sullivan 3:30 pm 1. Call to Order 3:30 pm 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 May 11, 2016 3:32 pm 4. New Business 3:32 pm 4.2 US15/16/-25: Scheduling of Examinations Policy; Undergraduate Council and…
The Senate webpage with the policy proposal and amendments is here. The Senate blog is here – many interesting comments. Some History of the Responsible Employee policy, from the GCO: Prior to February 2016, UO Policy, set forth in Oregon Administrative Rule 571.003 governing Grievances, required all UO employees to report instances…
Insidehighered has the latest here. The UO story is here.
The NY Times has the news here.
And so it begins. Andrew Greif has the story in the Oregonian here. The complaint to the federal court is here:
The 20126 election results are here: http://senate.uoregon.edu/content/2016-elected-committee-results There are two runoff elections, due to ties. Vote by Friday. Login to Duckweb at https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin University Senate: Only CAS Natural Sciences faculty will vote between Elliot Berkman, Psychology: When considering poverty, our national conversation tends to overlook systemic causes. Instead, we often blame the poor for their…
DENIED: So HLGR’s $25M loss to the family of dead smoker Michelle Schwarz stands:
The Oregonian’s Andrew Theen has a long piece on the results so far from the legislature’s decision to breakup George Pernsteiner’s OUS empire. Worth reading it all. He notes the record $665M in state funding this biennium. Here’s his take on UO: In retrospect, everyone agrees the old Oregon University…