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CAS Dean Chris Poulsen gives faculty best wishes & yet another 5 year plan, but no new money.

Dear friends, As we wind down 2024, I am reflecting on what an eventful year it has been, both on and off campus.  Among other things, we completed our five-year CAS strategic plan and have created an implementation plan to put our priorities into action. We also welcomed 64 new faculty—both…

President Scholz flips faculty the 4-3-3 bird

In bargaining today. That’s a nominal bird flip, in real dollars economists refer to it as a fuck you.

Zoom into the sessions here. Union is telling the admin team to go back to their imagineers and thought leaders and think again. “Oregon Rising” for JH administrators, Oregon Falling for the faculty.

Scholz’s team is refusing to schedule winter bargaining sessions because they don’t like it when Keaton bullies them in public with numbers and PowerPoints showing that the percentage of the budget going to faculty pay is falling. Wants to do the bargaining behind closed doors to keep us ignorant.

Stanford’s new President Jonathan Levin has no brain

Or maybe he just doesn’t care if his university thinks that he doesn’t. In any case his student interviewer has one, and she makes him look like the terrified brainwashed victim of his PR flack masters. Link here.