4/12/2012: The “We are Oregon” ASUO presidential slate tried to pull a Bush and get themselves declared winners, but the student court slapped them down. Rebecca X of the Commentator has the commentary. Branden Alexander of the ODE gets a good quote on the “Katie and Alex” phishing scandal that…
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4/11/2012: That’s what happened at the University of Illinois 3 weeks ago: Hogan has been under fire since early January, when his chief of staff, Lisa Troyer, resigned after being accused of posing as a faculty senator in anonymous emails sent to a faculty group to influence its debate. Troyer…
4/11/2012: UO will never have to worry about this sort of thing, right?
Today, Phil Knight Library, Room 101 3:00 ‐ 5:00 pm Some live notes: (My interpretation of what speakers mean, not their own words!) Lorraine Davis talks about OIEB benchmarks, then announces she is leaving the Senate meeting, but wants to say something about emeritus policy first. Why doesn’t the provost…
4/10/2012: KEZI has an informative broadcast:
4/10/2012: Randy Geller spent almost 4 weeks going through these with his whiteout bottle, but here they are. Looks like UO hired Mike Glazier last month for a second project, reviewing NCAA compliance. $9,245 in billing on that, plus $11,194.79 for the Willie Lyles football recruiting cleanup. No worries, UO…
4/10/2012 Update: The deadline is extended until 4/24. There’s a list of current nominations here. Many committees do not have enough names. 4/10/2012 Update: The deadline to complete this form is today. 4/5/2012: This will be an important year for shared governance. The call for faculty/OA/staff participation is out: To:…
4/10/2012: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian: The university is offering a $10,000-to-$40,000 cash incentive to faculty and staff who are at least 55 as of June 30 or have at least 30 years of retirement credit with an Oregon Public Employee Retirement System employer. … The retirement incentive was…
4/10/2012: From Joe Nocera in the NYT: Instead, universities do the opposite. With their phony majors and low expectations, they send the unmistakable message to the athletes that they don’t care what happens after their eligibility expires. It’s a disgrace. Instead, why not allow football players to major in, well,…
4/10/2012: A report from our Quebecois correspondent: Tuition hikes and student strikes What do Oregon and Quebec have in common? Six letters, beginning with a round thing, and an e in third place. But perhaps not much more. Take the student protest movement that has kept many students away from…
4/10/2012: From the United Academics Facebook page: April 4, 2012, forty-four years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while advocating for the right of public sector workers to organize, the UO administration and its legal counsel – and Frohnmayer’s private legal firm – essentially declared…
4/9/2012: From a lawsuit filed in federal court, asking for $10,000 in damages from UO after DPS stopped 2 people riding bikes without lights. (PSO is “public safety officer”): I have a great deal of respect for UO’s public safety officers, who regularly deal with bad actors like this with…
4/10/2012 Update: Emily Schiola reports still more election craziness in the ODE. 4/9/2012: Two “slates” made it through the ASUO student primaries, voting in the final election runs all week. The “We Are Oregon” slate is made up of frat kids and looks like a front for the athletic department…
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