That’s my take, from this excellent Josephine Wollington story in the ODE: “What am I supposed to do again when someone tells me they’ve been sexually assaulted?” … The 21-year-old UO junior didn’t know she was a mandatory reporter until summer 2011. No written policy, no explanation, she said. “No one…
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2/25/2013: My live-blogging of the bargaining sessions is mostly sober, but not that reflective: Rudnick seems to be scheming to weaken the Faculty Personnel Committee. Check out last year’s FPC report, chaired by Mike Russo, here. It includes three pages on issues with current procedures, here. Looks like considerable overlap…
Say what you will about former VPAA Russ Tomlin, at least he is teaching courses for his 600 hours, instead of taking the easy way out with the usual administrative sinecure for retiring VPs: It’s going to be an interesting list of guest speakers. Maybe UO’s General Counsel Emerita, Melinda…
2/24/13. Whoops, sorry, actually that story is about one of the many villas belonging to the Bongo Ondimba family, who recently gave $20 million in Gabonese money to UO for a greenwashing program. The latest story about Treetops and departing OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner is in the RG, here: Interim…
Investigative reporting by Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian, relayed to us by our Portland reporter Bojack, covering the tax scam beat: You can argue about tax giveaways for “green” this-and-that, but just about everybody would agree that the companies that reap the benefit of those subsidy programs should be required to…
Unlike some UO administrators, UO Matters is not living in a lucrative business school case study. Demand for Frank Stahl’s “No Sharon, the Students and the Faculty are the UO” buttons is dropping. I think it’s my butt-ugly design and the high price. If anyone is willing to try redoing…
2/23/13: Jeff Mapes has the story in the Oregonian. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian cut 3 investigators from his office – while keeping his communications director, Bob Estabrook. And like a true flack, Estabrook put out lots of press releases – but it took an investigative reporter from the Oregonian to…
Update 2/21/13: Latest rumor from the law profs down in the faculty club’s basement grow room is that Adell Amos is the top candidate to replace Moffitt. Apparently he still has 3 or so years on his dean’s contract, and is holding out for the full amount in severance. Info…
Prologue: Gottfredson fired Bean yesterday, after lots of faculty pressure. A good day for UO, probably the best since we got rid of Frohnmayer. The Senate will chase off Espy next, then Geller. The polling suggests that people see Westhead as Mullens’ problem. Fair enough. Tops on today’s bargaining agenda…
Editor’s note: The research article below was recently received by our editorial office. After careful peer review and several rounds of revisions, I have accepted it for publication, and look forward to a press release about it soon in “Around the O”. Title: VP Kimberly Espy is the driving force behind…
2/20/2013: UO Matters needs extra reporters to cover everything that’s going down. UO student Nick Ekblad has agreed to report on the armed UOPD public meetings, and he’s got a knack for asking questions: Q: What is your current budget? According to the UOPD budget guy: “Our general fund budget…
2/20/2013: Congratulations to Nathan Tublitz and the Senate: SPQUO. Stupid and futile gesture works! Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know that James Bean has requested a return to his faculty position at the Lundquist College of Business at the end of this fiscal year. Jim’s more than four…
2/19/2013: Good NYT editorial on the limitations of on-line education, with links to research.10/22/2012: Dash Paulson has a good story in the ODE, with interviews of Cathleen Leue and Garron Hale, who have been working on this for about 10 years now, helping CAS build many successful online versions of…