UO Matters

On November 21st 2011, 10 years ago, OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner and Board Chair Matt Donegan came down to UO with their ultimatum demanding Lariviere resign for trying to implement his plan to bring faculty pay to 100% of AAU averages and trying to set up an independent UO Board. Lariviere refused to leave…

Thanks to several members of Pres Schill’s Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee for forwarding this secret memo, along with the email from “Faculty” Athletics Rep Tim Gleason, below. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION: From: Tim Gleason Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 10:49 AMTo: Kristyn Elton <[email protected]>; Christopher Minson <[email protected]>; tom lininger <[email protected]>; Troy Elias <[email protected]>; Anne ‘Michelle’…

Whoops, the real session is on zoom here. It may be a while before the Johnson Hall team screws up the courage to bring its shit raise real dollar salary cut proposals to the table, but meanwhile: UA’s Bargaining Team plans to present a counter on Internal Governance and new…

Ignoring the deans, of course. The search will be run by Isaacson Miller, the same incompetents who brought Rahmat Shoureshi to PSU. The committee in full, from OSU’s search website: Julie Manning, member of the Board of Trustees, committee chair. Patty Bedient, member of the Board of Trustees. Julia Brim-Edwards, member…

They’re going to have to stop calling it the dismal science. Today’s release is at https://www.oregon.gov/das/OEA/Pages/forecastecorev.aspx Given this on top of all the other good news about UO’s out-of-state enrollment, CARES funds, and cost savings from the hiring freeze etc., it will be fun listening to Pres Schill at today’s…

Not sure why or to where. No longer on the Org Chart. Had been expected to replace Brad Shelton.

Carmichael rescued a dysfunctional UOPD – remember the Bowl of Dicks? – and increased police spending by millions in the process: Around the 0 has a press release here. His interim replacement will be Jason Wade, who I’ve heard good things about.

But will Uncle Phil and Tim Boyle set up another PAC to bully the legislature from doing it anyway? Daily Emerald reporter Will Cozine has the interview here: When asked about recent calls from activist groups — like Democratize UO — to democratize the board, Lillis said the university’s growth…

whilst OSU is up and PSU and TRU’s are way down. Last year VPFA Moffitt was predicting that the 2020 freshman bust would keep down overall enrollment for years, when the administration was pushing for the wage freeze and potential PPR cuts. Actually it only took one year to recover.…

Dear CAS faculty, staff, and GEs, As you know, the faculty and students in the College of Arts and Sciences engage in important and innovative research, often supported by external grants. We want to share this report on external funding members of our college have secured (and the research projects they support)…

One less quirky restaurant from Eugene’s hippy past, one more expensive student housing complex, and one more complication to Johnson Hall’s story that we can’t afford market pay for faculty and staff. Gina Scalpone has the story in the Eugene Weekly here.

I’m giving credit to our students, who have taken to vaccinations and masking with visible enthusiasm. Data from the UO dashboard, here. Just one case last week: And estimated Lane County infections are way down too – in part because most of those who haven’t got their jab have already…

A little ionizing radiation and fat-shaming from our track and field coach, here: I wonder if this use of the DEXA scanner was approved by the usual university committees and the state’s office of Radiation Protection Services?

JH has finally posted the 19-20 comparisons of UO faculty pay to other AAU publics, after sitting on it since at least June. I don’t know when the 20-21 data, which is based on fall 2020 pay will be posted. (While these tables include instructor pay it’s based only 7…