Thursday, 5/9/2013, 8-12 AM, Room 122 Knight Library. 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: Synopsis: Gottfredson hunkers down in his bunker. Prologue: Will admins present their counter-counter-counter-counter on raises, or keep stalling? Senate…
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Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm Prologue: Be there – two key motions: Adoption of a rational Legal Representation Policy, introduced by Senate VP Margie Paris. (See here for Randy Geller’s attempt). Legislation to require the administration to recoup the annual $1.8M cost of athlete-only tutoring and the $500K cost…
5/8/2013: The NYT discusses California’s extensive programs to respond to the ban on racially explicit affirmative-action programs for admissions with low SES “fill the pipeline” programs: The results of California’s efforts offer some measure of satisfaction to supporters and critics alike. Both sides hail the U.C. system’s strides toward economic —…
From Josephine Woolington in the RG, here. 5/7/2013.
5/6/2013: Sharon Rudnick and VPFA Jamie Moffitt have proposed $12M annually for faculty raises. The faculty union is asking for $25M. Rudnick and her team have made an impassioned plea for help finding $13M in recurring funds to make up the difference, stating that if UO can’t find the money…
Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR and their lobbyist and public relations consultant, Marla Rae.Union rally in support of faculty bargaining team, 12:00 Tuesday, on the Knight Library steps. Details here: The United Academics Contract Action Team is calling on all faculty to greet…
Gary Gray has held the job for years. They’ve just posted an ad for a replacement. Meanwhile, still no news on the Kelly/Lyles penalties, or who will pay them. 5/6/2013.
5/6/2013: President Michael Gottfredson invites UO faculty and staff to join him for an informal gathering and discussion of the University of Oregon’s governance structure as a public university within the state of Oregon. University officials who have helped shape pending legislation that would authorize institutional boards, and who have…
I didn’t think he could do it. He does sneak in a little twitter though. 5/5/2013.
5/4/2013: The university has successfully concluded an open national search for a new VP for Finance and Administration. The president reports to the faculty: “Our former VPFA did an exemplary job of helping keeping the university on a sound financial footing in a difficult economic environment and doing so in a…
5/3/2013: UO tuition increases. Diane Dietz reports in the RG on UO’s proposed 6% tuition and fee increase. That’s at least $15M in new tuition revenue on top of the the $29M or so from last year. The union wage proposal costs about $25M, but not until 2014-15. From OUS: And…
5/2/2013: Sad finale: Harris arrested again, with more pot and a gun, and is cut from the NY Jets. 22 years old. Presumably Mullens thinks his new random pot testing rule will prevent this from happening again at UO. Or, according to columnist John Canzano, give him cover to claim he…
5/2/2013: That’s the question UO’s feckless administrative bargaining team has raised at the table. As it happens there’s a new paper on college admissions from Doug Chung at the HBS, coming out in Management Science, that is relevant. Quick version? I further find that when a school goes from being mediocre…
5/1/13, Some good news. Here’s hoping he got some commitments from Gottfredson on reforms as part of the deal. For the nostalgic, here are the FIVE BIG IDEAS, here’s Lorraine Davis’s To Do list for Bean when he returned from sabbatical last May, and from July 2012, here’s Bean’s promise to get…
From Nigel Jaquiss in Willamette Week, On HB 3524, introduced in the Oregon House today by Democrat Brent Barton: Provides that a coach at public university who intentionally or recklessly commits or causes to be committed major violation of rules of National Collegiate Athletic Association is liable for university’s actual…