Forwarded on to me from a few different UCI faculty: From: “Michael V. Drake, Chancellor” Subject: Leadership UpdateDate: June 11, 2012 10:27:01 AM PDTTo: “UCI Community”: ; Dear Colleagues, Earlier today, the Oregon University System announced that Michael R. Gottfredson, our executive vice chancellor and provost, is the sole candidate…
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Jack Bog reports, here. In the comments here ideas on what UO should and shouldn’t do for commencement ceremonies are welcome. Me, I like the small department ceremonies. 6/13/2012.
6/13/2012: Her working group report is here. His lame BS is here:
is pretty thorough, see front page here and links to other stories here. Disheartening photo here. Diane Dietz RG piece here.
6/11/2012: Bill Graves of the Oregonian on the UO search: The 22-member UO search committee provided three finalists, said George Pernsteiner, chancellor of the Oregon University System, but “I thought, ‘let’s go with the one the committee and I both thought was the best candidate.'” … But some higher education…
Some links (Also see ODE) Oregonian on search and Gottfredson.http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/06/michael_gottfredson_sole_final.html All UC salary info is online, a consequence of the 2006 Berdahl scandal. Orange County Register search on Gottfredson Excellent google review‘s of his influential 1990 book, “A General Theory of Crime”. UCI puff piece Brief interivew on leaving, by…
6/10/2012: We’re getting off easy only paying Mike Glazier $150,0000 to clean up the Kelly/Lyles mess. From Syracuse: The case was referred to SU’s human resources department and to Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, the university’s longtime law firm, which investigated Davis’ claims and wrote the report. SU paid BS&K…
Update: As a commenter notes, this post is pretty far off base. More here, I hope more accurate. Out here in Oregon our state board fires presidents when they *do* raise faculty pay. UVA Rector Helen Dragas writing on the Board of Visitors’ decision to fire UVA President Teresa Sullivan…
I don’t think I know any of them, but congratulations to the “The Tuition is Too Damn High” students. The ODE story on their meeting with Bob Berdahl and Jamie Moffitt here. The RG story is here. It sounds like they asked some informed, tough questions – some of which…
6/8/2012: Diane Dietz of the RG has the story here: The foundation plowed $14.5 million into student aid, scholarships, loans and student wages in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011, according to its annual filings with the Internal Revenue Service. Spending in that category was down for a…
6/7/2012: Word down at the faculty club is that the search has narrowed to an external candidate with serious academic chops, and that he/she may be on campus next week. Sounds like good news, and not a moment too soon.
Results just in. I interpret this as a sharp rebuke by the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee to Interim President Berdahl’s efforts to repudiate the 2004 Task Force report and the 2006 NCAA certification report, his efforts to gut the committee’s charge and shared governance, and Rob Mullens’ efforts to…
6/7/2012: From InsideHigherEd: … The group has asked the dean and other top officials at the university’s school of medicine to write letters of apology to the professor, admit to errors of judgment, stop proposed disciplinary actions against him and take steps to prevent future violations of academic freedom. This…
The ODE has the story, with video: Most of the staff and administrators had cleared out prior to students entering except for President Berdahl himself and a few of his staff. Berdahl spoke with students on why tuition increases needed to be implemented as well as other issues surrounding state…
Update: The union Organizing Committee currently has 32 members listed. 5 are from PoliSci, 4 from Romance Languages, 3 from Music. German and Scandinavian has 2, as do History, AEI, and PE and Rec. None of these people were elected by anyone. They are making lots of important decisions that…