The Senate legislation is for ~$3M recurring. The coach’s charitable drive is for $500K, one-time. A cynic might think this announcement is a reaction to the UO Senate’s recent legislation to require the Ducks to make payments from their bloated budget to support the academic side, or to the Change.org…
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Senate Meeting Agenda – April 15, 2015 2014-2015 Agendas Lawrence, Rm. 115; 3:00-5:00 pm 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Remarks by Robert Kyr, Senate President 3:05 pm 4. New Business 4.1 Motion (Policy Adoption): Adoption of Policy on Conferral of…
I’ve worked in Wolf Point Montana, read a few books about wolves (but nothing as good as J. Frank Dobie’s The Voice of the Coyote). I’ve seen plenty of coyotes and heard a few wolves in Yellowstone, I think, and I’ve got a PhD in Economics specializing in public finance.…
This should be interesting. The doors to Gerlinger open at 3:30, Coltrane’s presentation at 4:00. And at 5:00 there will be an opportunity to schmooze with incoming UO President Michael Schill, in the Atrium in Willamette Hall. That was moved from 4 to accommodate the interest in this OA and…
4/15/2015 updates: Schill on shared governance, from his 2013 interview at UW-Madison, here: 5. Previous chancellors of this university have had contentious relations with the Faculty Senate. Assuming that natural tension between Fac Senate and the Chancellor’s office exists, how do you expect to relate with faculty politically? There is…
Apparently there’s an active if under-cover effort by some College of Education faculty disputing the work that the Senate has done to encourage the state Legislature to pursue legal changes in counseling records confidentiality, and in persuading the UO administration to drop the counter-claim against the survivor of the alleged…
The Athletics Department is expecting $98,350,368 in total revenue this year, mostly for football and a little from basketball. The money is then distributed among the many money losing sports, shown in red in the table below, so as to make sure there is no surplus for the academic side.…
4/13/2015: The RG has more, with additional quotes and explanation, here. 4/12/2015: Rich Read has the story in the Oregonian, here: More than 100 University of Oregon faculty members have signed a letter urging reinstatement of an archivist suspended after a records release that UO’s interim president called unlawful. The…
Posted on request of Marie Vitulli (Math Emerita), link to petition here: Students, faculty, and staff at the University of Oregon (UO) have depended on the computer repair shop at McKenzie Hall to maintain their computer equipment. If the shop closes all UO personnel will have to find lesser qualified…
Rich Read has the story in the Oregonian here, worth reading it all.
President of the Associated Students of UO, that is. The Emerald has the story on the election of UO Economics major Helena Schlegel here.
Salaita is the professor whose job offer from UIUC was revoked by the Board of Trustees, who didn’t like a few of his tweets about Israel and Gaza. I wish the 2PM time didn’t conflict with the start of the faculty union bargaining session.
Video of 4/8/2015 Senate meeting now posted here: Some links to highlights: Coltrane reads Chuck Triplett’s talking points on Senate rules, here. Criticism of gender inclusive bathrooms motion, here. What Coltrane and Lillis are really upset about: the Senate messing with the sports deals, here. John Ahlens gets the first…
4/9/2015 update: All the Tim Clevengers and Tobin Klingers in the world can’t put the UO administration’s broken credibility with the press back together again. Apparently Scott Coltrane can’t either. The Oregonian editorial board’s stinging rebuke to Johnson Hall on their counseling confidentiality debacle is here. Read it all. 4/8/2015:…