4/13/2013. I made a mistake, and I want to correct the record and try to make amends. I’ve been claiming UO’s Randy Geller has been paying Sharon Rudnick $400 an hour to run the administration’s negotiations with the faculty union. This was based on documents her HLGR firm gave Marion County Judge Thomas…
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From a professor in Texas, naturally. Meanwhile, an English language institute in Georgia gets in trouble over its innovative internship program. 4/15/2013.
Update: By popular request I’m adding a link to an audit and other shenanigans of Dave Frohnmayer’s two last provosts, John Moseley and Jim Bean. “Provost’s gone wild”. The RG editorializes, here. Read the commenters there, they are better informed than the editors about the lack of substance and the…
Legislative website on the bill here. Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian: If the Legislature approves the bill, this year will be the last that lawmakers get to decide how much money goes to the four-year universities, how much to community colleges and how much to financial aid. Under the…
4/14/2013. Six minutes of satire that captures it all: This South Park episode is pretty wicked too. In other news NCAA Director of Enforcement Dave Didion is bailing for a job at Auburn – the latest in a string of departures or firings. Here’s an email that Mike Glazier, the lawyer…
Nebraska got the boot at the AAU’s 4/10/11 meeting, and Jim Bean announced he’d hired their Associate VP for Research away from them on 4/13/2011. Of course Nebraska did manage to keep the AAU vote secret for a few weeks. I wonder when Espy told Bean about it. 4/12/13.
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/who-should-govern-oregon-universities/ The current draft of SB270 includes a faculty member, but only as a non-voting member. Some recent contributions to the campaign fund of Higher Ed Committee Chair and Senator Mark Hass, courtesy of a curious reader: 1/11/13: American Association of University Professors $2501/10/13: Nike, Inc & Affiliates $1,00010/18/12: Phil…
4/11/2013: The people have spoken. More importantly, three of them have offered to help restock my depleted scotch reserves if I would drop the Disqus comment block. I was holding out for another bottle from Bean, but he took a UO junket to Oxford and brought me back nothing from…
Free Coffee, Courtesy of UO Matters! Come on down.Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 4/11/2013. Buy your tickets here, $5 for 4 hours of comedy and administrative hijinks. All proceeds go towards the $300 I had to pay Dave Hubin to see the invoices on Rudnick’s $400 an hour…
4/10/2013: Once again I would like to thank whoever had the brilliant idea to post student photos on Duckweb, and whoever made it work so easily. Go to your class list and they’re in the drop-down list. Print it out for class. So helpful for teaching:
Synopsis: Gottfredson gets called out on trying to keep faculty off UO Board, and setting up secret working groups. Resolutions pass, pass, pass, pass. 4:20 and all the motions are done, several with appropriate amendments. Frank Stahl introduces motion for May meeting: Notice of MOTION for LEGISLATION:The University shall enter…
4/09/2013: The UO Foundation is spending about $200K on a lobbyist, Ginny Lang, with the job of convincing the legislature to keep UO faculty off the new UO Board. Where else do your tax deductible contributions to the UO Foundation go? Mostly to sports. More and more so every year:…
Agenda here. A senator from the HC is bringing up a motion on shared governance. Link here. A snippet: 2.2 RESOLVED – The University Senate, because of the faculty’s own statutory role in shared governance, strongly urges the university administration, during its negotiations with United Academics of the University of…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 4/9/2013. Also see Luebke’s blog. Synopsis: Gottfredson prepares for scorched earth class warfare: getting the students to believe it’s the faculty’s fault that tuition has been increasing. He must destroy the university to save it from the faculty. Nick Ekblad sneaks behind enemy lines…