3/8/13: Thanks to the ever curious Nathan Tublitz, here’s the list of UO employees who got free Rose Bowl tickets in 2012. 635 total tickets. (It took 3 months for Dave Hubin’s public records office to release the records.) Street price was about $1700 a pop for last year, according…
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From “Around the O”. Redding was the architect of the New Partnership Plan and a very important figure in the independent board proposal going through the legislature now: Michael Redding, vice president of university relations at the University of Oregon, announced today (March 7) that he has accepted a position at…
12/14/12: And what’s it costing us? Long story. The short version, with my opinion? The UO administration’s current lead negotiator, Sharon Rudnick, (from Dave Frohnmayer’s firm, HLGR) was originally hired by Interim UO President Bob Berdahl to fight faculty unionization.(That’s my opinion – under state law UO has to officially…
Postmortem: My take on the pity raise proposal: Bunsis beats Moffitt with a TKO after his simple question got her so flustered she left the room. Good faculty turnout, I got $30 on cover charges so far, thanks. Bunsis presentation slides are here, video soon. Takeaway? OUS says UO should have…
3/6/2013: In June 2009, the news broke in the University of Missouri student newspaper that their faculty were paid the second least in the AAU: A recently released study done by the American Association of University Professors reports MU salaries for ranked professors second to last out of 34 public…
3/6/2013: Lots of talk today about how the faculty should respond to Gottfredson’s 2% merit pay ultimatum. This 2% will be our total merit pay increase for what, the past 5 years, plus the next 2? It’s been so long I’ve forgotten. I think that works out to about $120…
Today, 3/6/13. I’ll try and live blog it. The union’s need to respond to Gottfredson’s mini-raise ultimatum by next week has raised the stakes for this considerably. Wednesday, March 6:3:30pm – 5:00pmLawrence Hall 115 3/2/13: Our JH contacts report that their bosses are going to plead poverty when the Union…
4/16/2013 update: Gottfredson’s first month or so at UO. The ratio of meetings cleary about sports to meetings clearly about academics is 5 to 11: 3/6/2013: Nearly 2 months late, and after a $108 public records charge, President Gottfredson’s official calendar finally arrived. You can download all 57 pages here. A snippet?…
3/5/2013: It took almost two weeks to get a copy of Geller’s latest contract from Hubin’s PR office. Why? Presumably because it shows Berdahl tied Gottfredson’s hands by giving Randy a three year contract, at $200K a year. Even Bean only got two years. What sort of Interim President would…
3/5/2013: Brian has been UO’s undergraduate admissions director for as long as I’ve been following these things. Organized, personable, gives great talks to the parents and prospective students, supported SAIL from the start, and respects and knows how to use data. One of the many midlevel administrators who kept UO…
… and is now going to stick it in our eye.” That’s a colleague’s response to the rumor that Bean’s new assignment will be interfacing with the UO Board, if the NPPB goes through. 3/5/13.
3/5/2012: Should be good, more here: Eagleman asks, “If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain’s function, what is all the rest doing?” Eagleman has spent years researching this question, and has uncovered some startling new answers. He will show how our behavior,…
Postmortem: Rudnick said that Gottfredson’s 2 year 2.5% “COLA” and 2% merit puddle was a take it or leave it offer, because of UO’s “financial constraints”. If the union takes it, there will be no more merit or across the board raises until September 2014. There is still a possibility…
… he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Samuel Johnson Lame Duck Interim Provost Bean figures out how to give himself another raise, regardless of whether Gottfredson lets him have an administrative sinecure next year, or makes him start teaching. Fortunately it means raises…
3/4/2013 update: NSF sends out “Dear Colleague” letter on funding for Obama’s new neuroscience initiatives.Update: Vote of no confidence in Espy can take place as soon as the 3/13 Senate Meeting. List of Senators is here. Not many scientists, I suggest talking those Senators you know in other departments. I…