Greg Bolt was a longtime reporter for the Register Guard. He had the UO beat before Diane Dietz, and he wrote wonderful exposees like these: Feb 2011: Pernsteiner’s TreeTops mansion: Perched on a hill in one of Eugene’s toniest neighborhoods is the one-time mansion known as Treetops. Once the home of…
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4/26/2014: That would be the University of Missouri, story here. Meanwhile here at UO, our administration is still trying to write a two paragraph mission statement. Interestingly, the UM plan is focused on increasing incentives to create intellectual property, by making it easier for faculty to own patents and start…
For the University of Illinois – Chicago. Story here: Highlights of the contract, retroactive to Aug. 16, 2012: ■ Faculty will get retroactive pay raises averaging 6.75 percent for the past two years plus a 1-percent raise on top of a campus wage increase next year. The campus wage increase…
Today’s Register Guard has an op-ed on Academic Freedom from the presidents of the UO graduate student union (David Craig), the UO faculty union (Michael Dreiling), and the UO staff union (Carla McNeely): On April 9, the elected UO Senate unanimously approved a statement on academic freedom that is among the…
I’m giving a brief presentation on student debt tomorrow. If you have any interesting links or thoughts, please add in the comments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-college-is-not-a-losing-investment/2014/04/24/b888eac8-cbd2-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html http://qz.com/201256/us-student-debt-isnt-as-scary-as-everyone-says/ http://projectonstudentdebt.org/initiative_view.php?initiative_idx=6
4/24/2014: This is a stunning development from the NCAA, reported by Rachel Bachman in the WSJ. It must be bitter news for UO’s FAR Jim O’Fallon, who has spent his professional life taking away kids athletic scholarships for just this sort of thing: Other changes that the five power conferences are likely to…
The UO Senate voted 2 weeks ago for an open search for the FAR, for faculty participation in reviews, and against letting current FAR Jim O’Fallon to stay on any longer unless he gets reviewed. Today President Gottfredson sent the Senate this non-response: From: President Gottfredson To: Margaret Paris Date: April…
Update: Today, in an open meeting, the UO Senate voted to make Senate committee meetings open.
Meetings of the UO Board and its committees are already open. For example the UO Board Finance Committee has posted notice of a public meeting on May 6, here. The Senate Budget Committee, on the other hand, holds its meetings in secret, and UO VP Brad Shelton has said he will not share important information with the SBC, if they hold public meetings. Weird.
The Senate open meetings motion was proposed in November, and was presented to Dave Hubin and the Committee on Committees several months ago. It was discussed at the February Senate meeting. Extensive comments have been posted on the Senate website, here. The Senate spent about 45 minutes today debating the motion, starting with an eloquent and passionate speech in favor by Jennifer Freyd, one of the sponsors. Rob Kyr proposed a significant amendment to provide a mechanism by which the Senate could address the reasonable confidentiality concerns that have been raised. After discussion, this passed.
The motion then passed, with all but one present voting in favor.
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4/22/2014: The UA student paper has a bit on Espy’s hiring, here: The criteria for candidates was that they be leaders with the vision and capability to meet the priorities established by the “Never Settle” strategic plan, according to Nikolich-Žugich. The plan’s goal regarding research and development is to double…
Great news – the Daily Emerald has the story, here. Not clear how much of this is for athletics, e.g. Knight’s ~$125M “Legacy Fund” or the $5M Robin Jaqua endowment that Johnson Hall let the jocks hijack. The recent OUS audit of the Foundation – with a weird $7M exception…
Pdf here. It summarizes the Retention and Delegation of Authority policy – more on that later. This is also of note: Applying the assumptions given in the HECC request, Moffitt reported that the UO would require an additional $7.4 million in FY 2016 and an additional $7.7 million in FY 2017 to…
More here. Open Presentation/public forum: April 21, 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm, Jock Box Auditorium. Reception following.
This motion was introduced in November and has been presented to Dave Hubin and the Committee on Committees. It was discussed at the February Senate meeting and was scheduled for a vote in March, but delayed because of the important Academic Freedom policy legislation. So there’s been plenty of debate,…
Just kidding, the meetings Provost Coltrane announces below are about a new UO mission statement – basically a PR fluff piece of one or two paragraphs. All unnecessary, I’ve simply run President Gottfredson’s first speech to the Senate through an algorithm, and here’s our new mission statement: So how about…