5/27/2014 Academic Freedom update: Gottfredson is scheduled to address the Senate on Academic Freedom. He doesn’t want to enshrine the freedom of non-faculty UO employees and students to criticize UO policies – an objection he raised at the last minute, after many months of negotiation with the Senate committee. But…
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Still no word on how Altman got Brandon Austin past Lorraine Davis’s special athletic admits committee. Oh wait, that NYT piece is about Altman and Arkansas, in 2007. Sorry, a bit premature.
“As soon as possible”. Say what you will about Russ Tomlin, at least he could write his own emails and hit send. The full ad for another helper for VP for Academic Affairs Doug Blandy here. I thought we were paying Tim Gleason $218K to do this? And a timely…
5/22/2014: There are so many powerful, honest statements in this video. Link here and below. I don’t know where to start. If you comment, please post the time in the video. The UO Trustees are meeting June 12-13 and the signup for making public comments is here. I expect that several of the speakers in this video will also speak there, providing a direct refutation, to the people who can fire him, of Gottfredson’s 5/14 attack on his faculty, staff, and student critics:
“… some have speculated that we are not acting in the best interest of the university and that student safety has been compromised. Or that we turn a blind eye toward misconduct, or that we would tolerate, for one moment, sexual violence and intimidation on our campus. These assumptions are patently false, and such speculations are very, very inappropriate.”
5/21/2014: Open forum lasts 2 & 1/2 hours. Gottfredson’s story gets no support from students, faculty, administrators:
Pat Forde in Yahoo Sports. He starts with a fawning quote from Lorraine Davis, President Gottfredson’s special assistant and probably the person in charge of vetting the Brandon Austin transfer: This is what Oregon interim athletic director Lorraine Davis said when Altman was hired in 2010: “In addition to the hiring…
5/23/2014: Public meeting of course, materials are now posted here. Agenda?
Gottfredson has so many PR flacks it’s hard to keep track. Here are two well paid ones. Email them and see if they’ll help you get public records: Dear Ms Thornton This is a public records request for all emails, texts, or other communications dealing with public business that were…
Gottfredson’s General Counsel’s office hides Rudnick and Frohnmayer’s HLGR bills under “Misc services and supplies”. That $462K does not include the most recent invoices. What’s that $65K under “other professional services”? Hmm, good question. From what I can tell that was in March, as was about $60K of “Misc”. Aprils…
Voting closes today, you can vote using duckweb. If you want to think first, the list of nominees is on the Senate website, here.
Word from inside JH is that the funds will come from cutting “bowl game junket benefits” for Lorraine Davis, Robin Holmes, Tim Gleason, and of course Randy Geller: Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce our plan to enact new and expanded benefits for unrepresented faculty members and officers of administration, effective…
That would be in Saskatchewan. The Chronicle has the story: Provost told Deans they couldn’t criticize his hare-brained restructuring scheme, a Dean wrote a public letter criticizing it, Provost fired the Dean. Story went public, and now the Dean has his job back and the Provost has “resigned.” Meanwhile, back…
That’s the word from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. And he is offering to use his office’s considerable authority to make them stop hiding. The Student Press Law Center has the story: Department of Education secretary says agency is happy to assist reporters when schools mistakenly cite FERPA Earlier today, Education…
I’m shocked. Insidehighered.com has the report – written by the University of Nebraska’s Faculty Athletics Representative. Meanwhile here at UO President Gottfredson is trying to marginalize that very job.
5/19/2014 update: Exactly how much will UO pay Gottfredson to leave? He can be dismissed for cause, or without cause with 30 days notice. For cause is a lot cheaper, but if he fights it the legal bills, and mutual embarrassment, increase substantially. I’m no economist, but it’s basically a…
From the NY Times: At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington…