Student comments are posted on Duckweb now. My favorite so far? He was very engaging and really knew the material. He only had to use powerpoint once. Post the good, bad and ugly here. 12/16/12.
UO Matters
Ben Schorr of the Commentator on the Nike deal. Dash Paulson of the ODE on the faculty union. The ODE has been mostly filled with Duck propaganda lately – good to see some substance. The Oregonian also has an excellent Harry Esteve piece on the Nike tax deal machinations. 12/14/12.
12/16/12 update: The union has now posted the proposals they put forward Th and Fri. Read and comment here.I encourage people to read these carefully. This is serious stuff that will affect our lives as faculty for a long, long time. There are bound to be problematic parts, and having seen…
From the faculty union website: First session December 13 (9am-1pm) and December 14 (1pm-5pm). Negotiations will take place in the Knight Library Collaboration Center (Room 122). The bargaining meetings are open to the public. Lots of people have lots of questions about how this will proceed. I don’t know how substantive…
The link is here. Short form. Deadline is 5PM Friday. 12/14/12.
Her standard rate is $400. (Frohnmayer’s is $550): It’s possible Geller negotiated a discount. We may find out next week, if the District Attorney orders Geller to deredact that part of her invoices. I’ll post more on how a partner in Frohnmayer’s firm ended up across the table from the…
Bargaining will restart at 1:15 PM Friday, again in room 122, Knight Library, again open to the faculty. Be there – after this fiasco, I have the feeling Rudnick et al. will come back in a more cooperative mode. These are my summaries of my interpretation of the meaning of…
Bojack has the story. Some history here, and the obituary here. 12/12/12.
No, I don’t know who’s invited when, or what they talk about. And I don’t really want to. I’m just happy to hear he’s listening to people outside of his “Executive Leadership Team”. 12/12/12.
From the faculty union website: First session December 13 (9am-1pm) and December 14 (1pm-5pm). Negotiations will take place in the Knight Library Collaboration Center (Room 122). The bargaining meetings are open to the public. Lots of people have lots of questions about how this will proceed. I don’t know how…
12/12/12 update: Lane County Chief Deputy DA Patricia Perlow has asked for a two week extension to respond to my petition on Geller’s redactions, which I’ve said yes to: From: PERLOW Patty Subject: RE: PR Petition for documents on UO General Counsel response to PR requestDate: December 12, 2012 10:33:16…
Fall grades are due at noon. The modal view is that Gottfredson hasn’t shown enough participation to earn a grade. Otherwise it looks like a D+ average. As a freshman he gets another quarter to try and bring it up to a 2.0. Bean’s grades look like something we’d expect…
Joe Nocera of the NYT on the corrupting influence of big-time college sports money. The occasion?: The annual IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, held last week in Midtown Manhattan, is the kind of meeting where football games are routinely described as “product,” television networks are “distribution channels,” and rooting for State U. is an…
12/10/2012: The draft legislation for independent university boards, LC 978, has been posted, here, by the House Higher Ed committee. That committee has no Eugene representatives. From what I can see the bill does not require the appointment of voting faculty representatives – even though the OUS board has two. There…