The UO Financial Transparency Tool was set up by the first iteration of what would become the UO Senate Transparency Committee, during Nathan Tublitz’s presidency. It was intentionally crippled by Frances Dyke and UO General Counsel Emerita Melinda Grier, because of what they called “FERPA restrictions.” To try it, log…
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Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost Message for October 12, 2012 Colleagues: President Gottfredson has assessed the organizational structure of the University’s executive leadership team and we have made changes to better align the structure with his view of the roles of the president and provost. The changes…
10/12/2012: I’ve heard many reports of recent statements by Bean and Gottfredson that they can’t pay us the round 2 and 3 Lariviere raises because of the union. At the Head’s retreat, for example. Please post comments or email me about other stuff you’ve heard from admins on this, with…
When I came to UO in 1995, there was a special list of faculty who were brave enough to publicly support LGBT student issues. Now we’ve got this.
Looks possible, according to this ODE EMU story: A recent development of the EMU design is to drop the concert hall. This decision comes about to make the building more affordable and to increase fundraising efforts due to concern from donors.
by David Baez. Pretty informative, I thought. 10/11/2012.
Postmortem: Given the low expectations, Gottfredson’s speech was good. He said “transparency” and “shared governance” many times. But then so did Berdahl. Still no action, of course – public records are in lockdown, thanks to the decisions of loyal trustee Dave Hubin. But today’s big loser was Randy Geller, who…
by passing the buck to an “Administrative Advisory Group”, though I suppose it’s possible he’s looking for cover to do the right thing. Last I heard Dave was still claiming that the $200 fee waiver policy he and Berdahl rescinded in May had really only been implemented by Lariviere on…
Mac Court was built in 1926. Students paid a $15 annual fee for construction, with the debt retired in 1932. At the moment it appears the PE department runs a few volleyball classes in Mac Court. Plans to convert it to academic use have gone nowhere. So why is the academic side…
(I’m talking about the guy on the left.) I’m not sure who should get the credit for inviting 1995 UO alumnus, Harvard Law graduate, and Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith to give the 2012 UO commencement address, titled “You might be screwed”. But it seems they were prescient. As usual bojack gets…
Following Eugene Bicyclist @Eugenebicyclist EPD reports wok on wheels stolen. It’s a bike food cart. Call cops if you spot it!pic.twitter.com/D7UROAyx Reply Retweeted Favorite
Fourth and Fifth updates, 10/7/2012 and 10/8/2012: From: David Hubin Subject: FW: [UO Matters] New comment on (Update) Oregon Hall air quality letter. Date: October 7, 2012 5:42:32 PM PDT [UO Matters], Perhaps you are already aware of this, but your representation in UO Matters of the note I sent…
Dash Paulson has a good piece in the ODE about how Robin Holmes let the EMU renovation turn into a fiasco. Short version: ASUO president Ben Eckstein insisted on substantial student input on the committee. Robin Holmes didn’t let that happen, and the students voted against the plan and fees,…
10/7/2012: Physics Prof Steve Hsu left UO this fall, to be VP for Research at MSU. Matthew Miller of the Lansing paper has a report. Not the usual generics, it deals in part with an email sent to MSU colleagues by UO Prof Daniel HoSang about Hsu’s views and research on…