gets a shout-out in the ODE. He’s bounced back up from Lariviere’s boot, with tenure and a rather impressive associate professor salary of $153,502. All apparently without an open, affirmative action compliant search. No word on how many other jobs he’s holding down this time. 5/3/2012.
UO Matters
5/2/2012: From the official Oregon Secretary of State website: OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner owns a house in Portland (OUS gives him $26,000 in state funds to help with the mortgage) and he spends most of his working time at his office at PSU. But he votes in Lane County. He’s…
5/2/2012: Last September, after a long series of meetings and after input from the faculty, students, and the press, President Lariviere instituted a simple $200 fee waiver system for public records requests. It worked pretty well. Maybe too well. Yesterday, with no warning or discussion with the Senate Transparency Committee,…
5/2/2012: Wondering who is on the union organizing committee? The by-laws committee? Want to get involved yourself, maybe show up at a meeting to find out what the next steps are? Too bad. None of this info is on the union’s website or facebook page. Not even the time and…
5/2/2012: The LA Times discusses a proposal to let Cal States schools do this. Oregon started this under Frohnmayer, and currently about half the UO President’s pay is from the UO Foundation. The problem is that the foundations are typically run by sports boosters. They either divert funds that should…
5/1/2012: He’s apparently the first – Giuseppe Toniolo. And, big surprise, the comments in the National Catholic Reporter story out him as a proto-fascist. From an old joke: In the beginning, when God and the Devil were creating the Universe, God would create something good, and the Devil would retort…
Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion Martha J. Bailey, Susan M. Dynarski NBER working paper 17633 We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys…
5/6/2012: Also see the links, quotes, and discussion on this UC-Berkeley page: “Sacred cows such as intercollegiate athletics continue to graze on the core academic programs of the institution.” – – Former President of University of Michigan James J. Duderstadt, The Future of the Public University in America. “More than…
4/29/2012: From Diane Dietz in the RG: The University of Oregon is asking an appeals court to dismiss a doctoral student’s claim of discrimination and retaliation — and conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum is asking to enter the case on the university’s side. … My understanding of this case…
4/27/2012 with updates: Like it or not, most UO faculty are now in a union. This union will need to negotiate a Collective Bargaining Agreement with our administrative overlords UO/OUS management and put it to a vote. The comments are open for suggested CBA clauses. No non-CBA comments on this…
4/29/2012: That would be Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindahl, firing LSU president John Lombardi yesterday. The LSU board members actually have some stones – it’s a 12-4 split, and some members are publicly accusing others of breaking the state’s public meetings law: Board member Tony Falterman said board Chairman Hank Danos…
4/28/2012: Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian continues his PERS investigations, with a story on double dipping. Lorraine Davis gets a shout-out, but no mention of her family football plan. Word is that Lorraine is furious about me exposing that deal – but not embarrassed enough to give back the money.…
comes to Oregon: Applications for the position of Global Scholars Hall Resident Scholar are being sought. … The primary responsibility of the Resident Scholar is to help shape the intellectual life of the students living in the Global Scholars Hall, in both formal and informal settings, through residence-based programs. This…
4/27/2012: Like it or not, most UO faculty are now in a union. This union needs by-laws and then a constitution. My understanding is that these are to be determined democratically. Why does this matter? The PSU union negotiated a 0.75% union dues deal with the AAUP. Way better than…
4/27/2012: Please submit your mottos in the comments, email art work to uomatters gmail. We’ll worry about that constitution later. A commenter notes the anti-union faculty need a t-shirt too: “Our core wasn’t properly polled”?