4/21/2011: Posted at the request of UO historian Glenn Anthony May: I received an Email today from a distinguished China scholar who asks whether the University of Oregon has had public discussions concerning the “illegal detention of Ai Weiwei.” I can’t answer that. (Here is one event at PSU.) Are…
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4/21/2011: Mat Wolf in the ODE: SEIU Chief Steward Gary Malone said he had received complaints about questionable behavior by one specific male DPS employee toward three individual female department employees during the last five years. (I’ve had several comments on this situation. I don’t intend to post any until…
4/20/2011: There are a lot of things about UO’s OIED I do not understand. Like this email. Apparently VP for Diversity Charles Martinez hired Abernethy for $2500, to mediate a dispute between the OIED/OMAS staff and himself. Abernethy is a psychologist at Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller is a fundamentalist divinity…
4/20/2011: Details in this Dennis Thompson story in the Statesman Journal: State workers who smoke or have their spouses on their insurance will pay a monthly surcharge for their health benefits in 2012, according to plan changes tentatively approved Tuesday by the Public Employees’ Benefit Board. Story includes much more.…
4/20/2011: From Sarah Douglas and Marie Vitulli at UO’s AAUP chapter. Also see the AAUP/AFT faulty union website and the Bunsis analysis of UO finances. President Lariviere’s compensation details are here. He is in the top 22nd percentile of public research schools. Don’t get me started on the Chancellor. Stories…
4/20/2011: That’s what I think I heard CAS Dean Scott Coltrane say Academic Affairs is considering requiring, starting next year. Anyone know more – such as how much we paid the consultant who recommended this, and who presumably knows just the right people to provide this training? (Update: apparently no…
4/19/2011: From Saul Hubbard in the RG. The vote was pretty much split on party lines: Democrats for, Republicans against. When the Oregon Republicans vote as a block against a law and order bill because they think it it in an unconscionable infringement on the liberties of those uppity pinko…
4/19/2011: Stefan Verbano in the ODE has details. (Also see Bill Graves in the Oregonian. Read the comments if you dare.) One of the faculty union proponents, Anne McLucas, is quoted in the ODE: According to OUS data, upper-level administrative costs have risen 63 percent from 2006 to 2010, while…
4/18/2011: From Maxine Bernstein in the Oregonian. He was not armed, fortunately. OSU contracts with the Oregon state police for armed officers in those unusual cases where they are needed. When it comes to the debate over an armed and sworn UO police force, I can see arguing this one…
4/18/2011: Physicist Steve Hsu in the Boston Globe: Even though the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that universities can continue to consider race in admissions in the interest of diversity, admissions officers deny they’re screening out Asian-Americans. However, in researching their 2009 book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, Princeton…
4/18/2011: I sprung for the NYT 99 cent trial: Business majors spend less time preparing for class than do students in any other broad field, according to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement: nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a…
4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website. Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax…
4/18/2011: I just got an email from PEBB: *CORRECTION*You received the below email with invalid links to the websites. Please use the links below. We apologize for any inconvenience. … But the links in the new email actually seem the same. I did successfully register using the procedure below. I…
4/16/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian gives the background, stirred by the memory of UO journalism professor Ken Metzler. You can read excerpts from Metzler’s book on Johnson here: This is just one little incident – caused by the Daily Emerald printing the phrase “Mother Fuckers” on state owned equipment.…
4/15/2011 update: The standard way around the confidentiality issues is to hire a trusted independent firm to collect the data and interview employees. In 2009 VP Frances Dyke did hire such a firm, Stan McKnight and Associates – but she hired them to do some union busting for the AAUP/AFT…