5/25/2012: The union has issued a call for volunteers for various committees, here. Very good, a big step forward for transparency. It’s not clear if everyone who volunteers can participate, I assume so. Apparently the by-laws committee is already stacked with insiders – the post says they only want three…
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to support his efforts to get a permanent contract. 5/24/2012. It mostly worked, update from Dash Paulson in the ODE: … The meeting produced an agreement to retain DeBevoise another year and for the College of Arts and Sciences to open up a “conversation” on establishing a Middle Eastern Studies…
5/24/2012: From an email sent out today by Bob Berdahl: … As you know, my term as interim president ends September 15. I am optimistic about our search for the University of Oregon’s 17th president. I have begun preparing for the transition by convening a campus readiness team that is…
5/23/2012 update. The list of supporters for this PAC is growing, and as a commenter reports it now includes a Lillis. Updates here. I don’t know that Bob Berdahl deserves credit, but it wouldn’t surprise me. This is part of what it will take to move the independent UO board…
From the RG, here. It’s a special allocation from the state legislature, to help the Oregon Track Club pay for security at the Track and Field Olympic Trials. In totally unrelated news, the Springfield school district budget committee is meeting Thursday to figure out how to deal with cuts in…
Two new OUS board appointees. From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: James Middleton, president of Central Oregon Community College, will replace Preston Pulliams, president of Portland Community College, on the board beginning July 1. Orcilia Zuniga Forbes, an experienced higher education administrator who most recently served as vice president of…
are not going to happen, I’ve got a defense. Live video is here. I did catch the part where Bob Berdahl announced that Jim Bean would return as provost on July 1, after a transition starting June 1. Back of the envelope the cost to UO of Bean’s strange sabbatical…
5/23/2012: From John Russell of the UO Libraries. The link to the petition to President Obama is at the bottom, you have to register to sign but it is quick. Open access advocates have created a White House petition asking the President to consider expanding the Public Access Policy of…
5/22/2012: A University of Oregon summer college prep program for underprivileged middle schoolers ally-ooped a Springfield teenager into the loving arms of Bill and Melinda Gates — who will pay for her college education from freshman year to doctoral degree. … “Particle physics,” she said. “What I really want to…
A reader asks: What can UO Matters do at this critical juncture in the search process to create a constructive environment? How can UO Matters help market the UO to potential presidents? What can be done now and in the next months and years to foster engagement between the faculty…
5/20/2012: From Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian. I’m no finance professor, but there seems to be a lot of long-run downside risk here for the state – and not much for the investment advisors, who take their fees and bonuses off the top.
5/19/2012: Bob Berdahl’s threats to veto faculty votes on who will chair our committees are getting more strident. And the administration has been setting up its own committees on important issues like policing, without even consulting the senate. But FWIW the senate and committee election results are now posted here.…
5/18/2012: VPSA Robin Holmes was one of three finalists for the VPSA job at Virginia Tech. She withdrew before the campus visits, apparently in return for a raise from $193,128 to $233,000 as of May 1, 2012. If rumor is correct she also got all expense paid trips to the…
Update: Archived video of the meeting is now available, here. It cuts off before the public records debate, meaning we have no public record of Hubin and Berdahl’s rationale for subverting UO’s public records process. Peter Keyes’s clear presentation about the union is there though, along with Berdahl’s rant. 5/10/2012:…
5/18/2012: Looks like a shotgun wedding, by the Honorable Judge Michael Hogan: Yes, of course I feel dirty for having posted this, you’re welcome. My guess is UO pays some competent lawyer $200,000 and Ms Emeldi another $200,000 to clean it all up. The full “amicus brief” is here.