9/19/2013: Christian Gaston has an excellent piece in the Oregonian on the deal and the politics. As usual Marc Feldesman has some biting commentary on his PERSINFO blog. I suggest reading all of both pieces, because the consequences for your lifetime income stream are likely to be significant. You might…
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9/20/2013: You can’t make this shit up. From UO’s “Around the O” blog: University of Oregon law professor and president emeritus Dave Frohnmayer recently was named to the executive committee for The Lincoln Project , an initiative of the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Just how prestigious is…
9/19/2013 update: Provost Coltrane on the faculty’s obligations (legal, not ethical) if the UO staff strike: Date: Sept. 19, 2013To: Faculty From: Scott Coltrane, Interim Provost Subject: UO preparations for possible strike OUS has received notice of intent from SEIU to strike with a projected strike date of September…
9/19/2013: Wow. That “watershed moment in UO’s history” is looking a bit like Katrina. Diane Dietz has a report in the RG, and Nigel Jaquiss has one in WWeek: Amid all the wheeling and dealing in Salem toward the “grand bargain” Gov. John Kitzhaber and legislative leaders hashed out this week,…
9/19/2013: As long as I can remember the Catholic Church and its Popes have been the best argument for atheism. Sort of like Johnson Hall and UO’s Presidents have been for the faculty union. Seems like things are changing though – in the Vatican, I mean.
Breaking news: Union Takes the Goat Faculty get average 12% raises (all in place by July 1, 2014, 10 months from now) $350 goat signing bonus (pro-rated by FTE) Increases in sabbatical and promotion raises Admins agree to leave Senate COI/COC (consulting) rules in place Admins agree old IP policy stays…
9/18/2013: Update from an anon correspondent: Summary of AEI Situation AEI Background: A majority of international undergraduate students pass through one American English Institute (AEI) program or another. AEI collaborates with other departments to enhance the international students’ academic success, and to a large degree, the students’ future academic success…
9/17/2013: UO’s GC Randy Geller is hard at work, building trust between President Gottfredson and the faculty with these latest redactions: 8/7/2013: Full pdf here. It took 2 months, $214.50, and a petition to Lane County District Attorney Alex Gardner to get UO General Counsel Randy Geller to produce these.…
9/17/2013: Economist Mary King from PSU, in the Oregonian.
9/17/2013: More on the EWU plan, from Colleen Flaherty at EWU The 2010 Coltrane/Lariviere plan would have got UO salary averages by discipline and rank to the levels of comparators by fall 2013. So it was the same as the EWU plan, but allowing merit differentials within departments. Gottfredson was…
Thanks to the faculty who wore wires, and the underpaid web workers at the Mechanical Turk for their transcriptions. Many pages of details after the fold. I’d say the most revealing parts are when Provost Coltrane and his VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt reveal that UO’s well is far from…
9/7/2013 update: An OSU correspondent reminds us of a previous post comparing research reporting by UO and OSU, and notes that OSU’s research office does day long meetings with faculty, and even posts them online: 2011 2012 9/6/2013: Or maybe not. Sounds like she’s sending a substitute for this 2.5 hour…
9/16/2013, in the Oregonian.
9/15/2013: OK, maybe not exactly, but his selective reporting of data is rather astonishing. His Op-Ed is today’s RG is here, my response is in their comment thread. Please post your comments there, not here.
9/15/2013 benefits update – turns out we only lost by 9.75%.For retirement, Tennessee gives new employees a choice, much like UO. Tennessee pays the full cost of the defined contributions plan, like UO. It puts 10-11% into the employees defined contribution account – faculty pay nothing. UO puts 6.42% into its…