UO Matters

My scotch consumption is not exactly a secret to regular readers, but I had no idea how far my reputation had spread:

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Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices Publick Benefits, 1714: Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together. Pres Schill, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, today: … First, a disclaimer. The University of Oregon has been fortunate to receive three extremely large donations…

I can picture them in the JH conference room chuckling over the divide-and-conquer possibilities. “This will teach them to bring up equity again!” Who do they pay to come up with these ideas? Brad Shelton? Kevin Reed? Jeff Chicoine? The latest bargaining news from your union: The administration’s lawyer opened…

And apparently the jurors bought it, letting the cartel off. UO had already paid Brenner $500K. I haven’t been following the case, so I don’t know if former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason admitted that his supervision as “Faculty” Athletic Representative was deficient, or was exactly what AD Rob Mullens…

I missed the part where Provost Phillips and President Schill consulted with shared governance in these decisions. Rumor has it that the Deans also feel a bit left out. In any case here is Johnson Hall’s latest:

From a webinar at Quinnipiac College: “What we need to do is make sure the NIL reflects the value that the students’ name, image and likeness has instead of inducement of donors and boosters,” Schill said. “We need federal legislation that provides a uniform, federal definition of allowable NIL so…

InsideHigherEd has the story: Iowa State University announced Thursday that it is leaving the Association of American Universities. The news revived a debate over the AAU’s membership criteria. “While the university’s core values have not changed since joining the association in 1958, the indicators used by AAU to rank its members have…

Rumor down at the faculty club is that JH has decided we can’t keep the current Interim Dean because what with our Provost and President, white males are already over-represented in UO’s senior leadership. Here’s hoping the winner negotiates a large cut in the subsidy CAS is paying to prop…

Pres Schill and Prov Phillips save the good news for the end. Here’s hoping this is the start of a compete reform of UO’s budgeting, planning, and Institutional Research offices. At well-run universities these are staffed with competent professionals who provide credible timely information to the central administration and are…

The faculty union first brought this modest request to the table pre-pandemic. Our administration – led by a full professor who never even passed the prelims – has now caved on the title, but not the substance. From the UAUO bargaining news, which contains much more info: As in past…

We’ve all heard about the controversial practice of closed presidential searches, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a closed search for a Dean before – not even at LSU. But UO seems to be trying, so here’s my public records request for a little transparency: From: harbaugh <[email protected]>Subject: Public records…

From https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/33716661/former-oregon-ducks-ol-doug-brenner-adds-100m-damages-claim-lawsuit-ncaa … According to the lawsuit, Taggart told players when he was hired that he and the new coaches were going to focus on discipline in strength and conditioning and that they were “going to find the snakes in the grass and cut their heads off.” The document states…

[I’ve deleted the screenshot of the Zoom session, because the Administration threatened to close bargaining if I didn’t. Touchy.] I don’t know much about Chicoine except that, in a strange reversal of the normal higher ed business model, he’s charging UO to teach him how to do his job. You…