9/4/2013: Excellent report in Insidehigered.com, from former ODE reporter Allie Grasgreen, on the latest effort to pressure university presidents to take control back from athletics departments. Also check out the Ry Rivard story on lack of confidence by presidents in their boards: Only 20 percent of public four-year college presidents…
UO Matters
Page down for live-blog, 9/3/2013. Next session Friday, I think 9AM – 4PM. Be there. Wrap-up: UO’s faculty union bargaining team has played President Gottfredson’s lead negotiator Sharon Rudnick like a screechy fiddle. She has insisted since March that there was no more money, beyond her initial 10.5% offer. The union…
9/3/2013: Randy Geller is only now releasing the tapes, in response to a public records request. You bet I’ve got another ethics complaint brewing. It seems there’s been a lot of questionable behavior inside the President’s office, and the secret football recruiting video will raise many new questions with Jim…
9/2/2013: Another UO alum’s letter, with response from President Gottfredson – a month later. Note this predates the “University of Nike” piece in the NYT. I’m happy to post more of these, just email them to uomatters at gmail.com. From: [ ]Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:01 PMTo: President GottfredsonSubject: Trash…
9/2/2013: I did not know that.
9/2/2013: Drew Hendricks, a handyman in Port Madlock WA, started out making public records requests to his local police department, asking if they were using cameras to record his license plate: What he eventually found led to a major story in the NY Times today uncovering a massive secret database of…
9/1/2013: Forwarded by a helpful OA: Open enrollment this year begins Sept 1 and goes through Oct 31. HR is asking us to complete it as soon as possible. Here is an excellent slide presentation with lots of good information: http://benefits.uoregon.edu/2%20Months2%20Steps.pdf In a nutshell: You must take action during open enrollment.…
8/30/2013: President Gottfredson’s faculty supporters – OK, make that his faculty supporter – have argued for that past year that, after getting his UO Board, he would finally turn his efforts to cleaning up Johnson Hall. Replacing Bean was a good first step, and rumors tonight down at the faculty…
8/30/2013: Op-Ed in the RG today: … Our public university was built by Oregonians, and for more than 135 years it has carried out its mission to serve the students and the state of Oregon. In recent decades, inadequate investment in the activities, resources and personnel that constitute and define…
8/30/2013: Thanks for all the U of Nike t-shirt purchases and google ad revenue: I’ve almost got enough money to pay Dave Hubin’s public records office the $225.56 they want to provide info on the authors of the admin bargaining team’s harassing “open letter to Professor Harbaugh”. Please help out. Buy a…
Thursday 8/29/2013, 9am-4pm, room 122 Knight Library.The admin team’s fact-check on this post should be quite interesting.Lead admin negotiator and noted tobacco company lawyer Sharon Rudnick violates UO Respectful Workplace Policy? If you’d showed up you’d probably know what I’m talking about. Don’t miss the next session: Tuesday, 9/3, 10AM. Your chance…
and their well-paid, non-profit, faith-based executives. 8/28/2013.
8/28/2013: A modest proposal from the RG letters. You know, President Gottfredson must have received hundreds of letters and emails from parents, students, and alumni about the new football Sweat Shop. Some enterprising reporter ought to ask Dave Hubin for copies, and for the responses. Just sell university to Nike…
8/27/2013: The guy running this excavator across the street from PLC says he’ll leave the keys in the ignition tonight. We just need $500 in small bills, and a volunteer who knows how to run a Deere 120C. Slip your contribution under my office door.
8/26/2013: Updated elevator version: We’re going down. During the first year of Gottfredson’s administration UO faculty pay has fallen still further behind other AAU public universities: Full profs: down from 85% to 82% Associate profs: down from 92% to 90% Assistant profs: down from…