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…
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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…
That would be President Sullivan at UVa. The Daily Progress has the story. The board tried to fire her last year. The governor reappointed Helen Dragas, her worst critic, to the board along with another businessman of the dull type we can expect to get for our board if the New Partnership…
Bean keeps his parking spot for 4 more months, but we should have a new interim by July 1. The obvious candidate is CAS Dean Scott Coltrane. Any other ideas? 3/2/13.
Nigel Jaquiss has the story in WW. 3/2/13.
Last summer the Senate IAC started trying to get data on the academic performance of student athletes, and for comparison, regular unathletic students. We were stonewalled. The Dolphin GC Randy Geller took the interesting position that federal law prevented faculty from seeing information on their students. After getting jerked around…