12/11/2011: Greg Bolt has a long story in the RG on how the Lariviere firing has forged new leadership and solidarity at UO: History professor Ian McNeely, a member of the UO Senate’s executive committee, said it has been inspiring to see how people have put aside differences to work…
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which is it? “Who should Berdahl fire?” or “Whom should Berdahl fire?” Thanks.
(interim). And then appoints Allyn Ford as chair of search committee for permanent President, with no consultation with the faculty. Throw the dog a bone? Aren’t we still paying off his Ford Alumni Center debt? The gift that keeps on taking. Berdahl’s opinions on OUS board members like Allyn Ford…
12/9/2011: 5:11PM. The board tricked us and is doing this meeting in person. They also started with an executive session, not announced in advance. Web link here. They are currently talking about how great Berdahl is. Now they are laughing, voting. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, …12/8/2011: Does anyone know…
12/9/2011: That’s the memorable phrase from AG Kroger’s investigation of Melinda Grier and the UO’s general counsel office after the Bellotti contract farce. Now Randy Geller, the associate counsel of that office at the time, is about to take full control of your legal representation as a UO employee, student,…
12/8/2011 with updates. Maybe President Lariviere made a mistake when he fired Melinda Grier. Her longtime assistant and now GC Randy Geller is about to cost us a lot more than the $2.3 million payoff to Bellotti. Geller’s proposed new policy giving him total control over access to legal advice…
12/7/2011: Two years of hard work by the Senate Governance Committee and some administrator(s) from Johnson Hall. Passed by unanimous vote of the Faculty Assembly, after some discussion of the role of NTTFs and adjuncts, and one friendly amendment from chemist Paul Engelking to correct the “half plus one” rule…
On Wednesday Dec 7, 2011, at 12:58 PM, John E Bonine (UO) wrote: Dear colleagues, I write to you with a plea to attend today’s Faculty Assembly at 3 pm. The revised UO Constitution is up for a vote today. It is a document thathas been intensely negotiated with everyone…
12/7/2011: This constitution has been in development for two years – two years of hard work by the governance committee, compromises with the administration, back and forth, compromises by them with us. It is ready to be passed and signed. People I trust – that you trust – support it.…
12/6/2011: The UO administration has been missing in action since the Lariviere firing. It is obvious that UO needs strong faculty leadership and we clearly have it with our Senate President, the Senate Executive Committee, the Senate, and many, many other faculty, who have showed up and did their teaching…
12/1/2011: Update: Provost Bean’s 2011 sabbatical contract is here. It’s an academic sabbatical, but we pay him his much higher administrative salary. It also turns out we’ve been making his beemer payments, $775 a month, mostly from student tuition money. In fact, we are also apparently on the hook for…
comes out in support of Berdahl in the Oregonian. 12/7/2011.
issue non-negotiable demands to President. It’s UCSD – they want the library kept open 24/7.
12/7/2011: Allan Brettman of the Oregonian has a good piece: For donors like Lorry Lokey and Vinton “Slim” Sommerville, Lariviere’s ouster was a stunning blow that no amount of explanation of process and political niceties can soothe. “It’s the governor’s fault and I hope the voters remember this two years…
12/7/2011: Gay rights, human rights. Good for Ms Clinton for using our power for this cause. And on a UO specific topic, read this ODE piece by Josephine Woolington, who gets some honest, revealing quotes on a subject that is shields up for most everyone.