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…
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8/26/2013: An amazing story in the Oregon Quarterly by UO journalism graduate Elisabeth Kramer, on 1966 ODE Editor Annette Buchanan and her role in creating Oregon’s shield law, which protects journalists and their sources. All over a story about pot smoking on campus. How far have we slid back in…
8/26/2013: A correspondent notes that if UO faculty leave early (i.e. take a sabbatical and then don’t come back) we also have to repay a year’s salary. Link here. Of course we don’t get 3.5 years to do it, and we have to repay the cost of our benefits too. 8/24/2013:…
8/22/2013: This is great news. I know some skeptics will say these are just words, but they are powerful ones, made with force and commitment. For me, this goes a long way towards erasing many of the concerns that the faculty and the press have been raising about President Gottfredson’s…
8/22/2013: This is goddamn brilliant. I’ve seen a few comments on this blog calling for a daylong strike during week one, over the administration’s laggardly pay proposal. But instead the faculty union is asking its members to volunteer with VP for Student Affairs Robin Holmes and her annual “Unpack the…
8/21/2013 update: After telling the faculty on the IAC we had to keep her presentation about Sand Volleyball secret, AAD Lisa Peterson has now blabbed all about it to Andrew Greif in the Oregonian. Interesting double standard.8/12/2013 IAC meeting update: The meeting took place as scheduled and lasted for about 40…
8/21/2013: It’s long past time for Gottfredson to bring in an adult. Maybe too late, given the hole Rudnick has dug him. But Interim Provost Scott Coltrane is willing to try. Remember that, as CAS Dean, Coltrane supported the Lariviere raises, and CAS set aside money to fund parts 2…
8/20/2013: I know, it’s an outrageous idea. Tuition is a sacred trust, paid by UO students and their parents in the belief that it will help out the poor athletic department, and allow Johnson Hall to hire a few more associate VPs. And of course give former interim Provost Jim…
8/20/2013: This man gets a t-shirt! Fortunately it looks like Kitzhaber responded to Knight by appointing a pretty reasonable UO Board. From today’s Op-Ed in the Oregonian: … When we deal with public funds, we debate trade-offs and opportunity costs. But we tend to ignore these issues when we deal with private…
8/19/2013: Gov Kitzhaber’s press release here. President Gottfredson’s “Dear Colleagues” email here. Info from the UO nomination page (in italics) or other sources. Editorial comments at the bottom. See Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian for info on the HECC, PSU, and OSU boards. In the ODE, Craig Garcia has better…
8/19/2013: Hannah Hoffman has the story in the SJ.
8/19/2013 update: “Around the O” reports UO raised $200M this FY in donations. It’s difficult to tell from the press release, and as explained below UO Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold has refused to release breakdowns, but it appears that about 57% of the donations to the Foundation went to the jocks.…
8/19/2013: In an Op-Ed in the RG: The debates surrounding the opening of the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex are not much different than the ones that have been waged since the University of Oregon Athletic Department decided to ramp up operations after the unexpected trip to the Rose Bowl in 1995. The…
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