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…
UO Matters
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…
9/13/2013: Or not. I’d add the salaries, but Dave Hubin’s public records office is delaying them until after the faculty and SEIU unions are done negotiating. These are as of the end of May. Name Title 2013 car stipend Gottfredson, Michael President $14,400 Andreasen, Michael C Vice Pres for Univ…
9/13/2012: Lots of traffic yesterday (and email from faculty at other universities) came from the InsideHigherEd story on President Gottfredson’s proposal to limit faculty free speech rights.
Thursday, September 12, 1pm-5pm in Knight Library 101. This is the big one, be there. not the end, bring more colleagues next time, we’ll probably need an even bigger room as start of term approaches and raises, consulting, and IP come up.PDFs of proposals submitted 9/12/2013 here. Disclaimer: My respectful opinion of…
9/12/2013: Troy Brynelson has the scoop in the ODE: In solidarity for the protest, ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz, with the support of student presidents from Oregon State and Portland State universities, has also called for students across the state walkout. “These folks work some of the lowest paying and often…
9/13/2013: See below for rules and the Supreme Court ruling on parody. Email your entry to [email protected]. Entry #4: Entry#3: Entry #2: Entry #1: Soon to be valuable collectors item – the Original U of Nike cup: U of Nike coffee cup sales are lagging, probably because they are so damn…