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:…
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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…
“UO Foundation resists compromise to include faculty on proposed independent governing boards”From Saul Hubbard in the RG. They’re using money donated to UO to pay Ginny Lang, the lobbyist who is meeting with legislators to fight against faculty participation. Meanwhile President Gottfredson won’t sign the UO constitution that Rob Kyr…
4/8/2013: UO posts ad for new Assistant or Associate GC here. Key qualification? The Associate General Counsel reports to the General Counsel and may act on behalf of the General Counsel if the General Counsel is incapacitated … Randy’s parties do tend to get out of control.
4/8/2013: Update: Marcin asked me to move this to the top of the blog, in case people had additional comments.3/22/2013: Dear Union Bargaining Team, I would like to raise your attention to enormous inequity in ORP retirement contribution rates between two different tiers of university faculty. I think this should…
4/8/2013: An anonymous UO law alumnus points me to this, from ABA data reported in the National Law Journal:
Diane Dietz has the story in the RG: … they’d tried for months to get the administration to hold an open meeting for Oregon Hall employees so that all the workers with physical complaints could air their concerns. But it wasn’t until after DeFazio called UO President Michael Gottfredson that…
4/8/2013: From a new study, as reported in the Chronicle: His analysis found that having faculty unions led public universities to spend a larger share of their budgets on instruction, as opposed to administration. Over time, his paper says, universities with faculty unions consistently spent 2 to 3 percent less than…
If anyone knows, please comment or email me, thanks. 4/8/2013.
4/7/2013, here: UO men’s and women’s teams, combined, are 11th in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition, which uses a slightly different scoring system. The highest the Ducks have ever finished in the Directors’ Cup competition is 14th in 2009-10; with a strong spring, they could be a top-five program. …
Fun graphic from Mark Friesen in the Oregonian – mouseover the dots and see the retiree’s name, final salary, and retirement benefits (you gotta follow the link here, below is just a screenshot). The accompanying article by Ted Sickinger makes a lot of interesting points about how haphazard current payouts…
That would be John Wolf at Rutgers, fired for giving the president bad advice about a coach’s misdeeds. 4/6/2013.
4/5/2013: I’d rather not know which UO administrator drives this one:
4/4/2013: Faculty? Strange, I don’t see Jim Bean’s name on the list of faculty teaching B-School classes this fall. Didn’t we pay him $200K to take a sabbatical last year, so he could prepare for his return to teaching? His faculty appointment is for $186K a year. We’re currently paying him…