Colleagues, We present, for your consideration, four outstanding finalists for the Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. Candidates will be on campus for the next two weeks beginning Monday, June 3. Campus visits are scheduled as follows: Candidate A, June 3 and 4 [Ed: Dave Kurpius, LSU] Candidate…
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5/29/2013: Details on Julie Hermann here. UO searches here and here, also by Parker Executive Searches.
5/29/2013: That would be at NMSU.
5/29/2013: Oh wait, never mind. It’s Randy’s wife Jennifer Geller and the 4-J school board, bargaining with the 4-J teacher’s union.
Resources and news regarding the 2013 legislation to create a UO Board of Trustees. Work in progress, suggestions welcome. Created 5/17/2013. Last updated 5/29/2013: Hot topics:5/29/2013: Kyr and others are testifying in the Ways and Means subcommittee today. Written testimony here. Supposedly there’s video here: http://www.leg.state.or.us/listn/listenset.htm under conference room F.Meanwhile, still…
5/28/2013. Samantha Matsumoto has the story in the ODE on the consultant hired to fix Oregon Hall air quality: “I can’t even get them to talk to me,” Jones said. “I’ve only been here eight months, but there’s a lot that’s happened here before I came that I had nothing…
5/28/2013: Excellent story in the Chronicle. UO’s Econ department has a smaller scale program where honors students do free economic consulting for local government agencies and nonprofits.
5/27/2013: Haven’t seen an announcement about this, but a source sends this notice: As part of Robin’s 5-year Administrative review, she will be giving a campus-wide presentation. That presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge.
5/27/2013: Potential changes in PERS make this workshop a must for all UO faculty. Friday at 8PM, in the Lariviere smoking lounge at the UO Faculty Club. Dave Frohnmayer will open with some advice on how to negotiate a fat golden parachute to supplement PERS. Step #1 is to convince your colleagues you’re…
5/25/2013: From Laura Gunderson in the Oregonian, promoting Donegan’s political ambitions. She pitches his steely stand against the UO faculty and boosters at the Lariviere firing meeting as a plus. Doesn’t mention the public meetings law violations or the secret bathroom caucus where he rallied the board to stand firm…
5/24/2013: The OUS F&A committee has unanimously voted to endorse the tuition increase proposals and send them to the full OUS board for approval in June. Meanwhile Zillow has just increased it’s estimate of the market value of Pernsteiner’s soon to be vacant Treetops mansion to $1.3M. No word on recent…
Updated 5/24/2013: Having fired Karen Sprague for being insufficiently servile, Bean now has a list of replacements. Quality ones, actually. No doubt it’s a lot easier to get good people to apply when they know they’ll be working for Coltrane instead of Bean: Colleagues: We present, for your consideration,…
5/24/2013: Finally some common sense from the group that taught me: On my honor I will do my bestTo do my duty to God and my countryand to obey the Scout Law;To help other people at all times;To keep myself physically strong,mentally awake, and morally straight. I had to lie…
5/23/2013: Samantha Matsumoto has the story in the ODE.
Thursday, 5/23/2013, 8-12 AM, Room 122 Knight Library, open to the public and reporters, free coffee. Bring some donuts.Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae. Check out Luebke’s facebook live-blog on this session…