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Faculty Union bargaining update – next session this Tu 9AM til ?

From https://mailchi.mp/uauoregon/summer-bargaining-so-far?e=b103ce406c, all posted below: United Academics and the administration reconvened last week to discuss potential salary cuts, the restoration of fall FTE for affected Career faculty, and a plan for expectation of continuing employment for all Career faculty. The bargaining conversations have begun with each side presenting and discussing…

3:00 p.m. Finance and Facilities Committee

[reposted because of reserve and media contract stuff]

3:00 p.m. Finance and Facilities Committee https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_packet_-_ffc_final_12.3.18.pdf

1. Audited Financial Statements: Jamie Moffitt, Vice President for Finance and Administration and CFO; Kelly Wolf, Associate Vice President and Controller; Scott Simpson, Partner, Moss Adams

Here’s one metric where UO is not at the bottom of the AAU – reserves:

2. Quarterly Financial Reports and Annual Treasury Report: Jamie Moffitt, Vice President for Finance and Administration and CFO; Karen Levear, Director, Treasury Operations

All these business people on the board, and the only trustee who found the error in the report is the UO staff trustee, Jimmy Murray, a librarian. Controller Kelly Wolf thanks him.

As usual these reports do not include any information on the athletics budget, or the various tax changes affecting it, or their subsidies, or their debt obligations. This is despite the fact that in the past trustees have specifically asked to see this.

University to cut 11 subsidized sports due to budget crisis

That would be Stanford University – thanks to several readers for the forward. Sacrifices must be made. Except by the golfers, I can’t help but notice: Stanford University logo JULY 8, 2020 An Open Letter to the Stanford Community and the Stanford Athletics Family Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President Persis Drell, Provost…

Pres Schill and Prov Phillips on Trump’s latest nastiness

Dear University of Oregon community, The federal government’s recent guidance forcing the immediate exit from the United States of international students enrolled entirely in online or remote classes is cruel, unfair, and misguided. This is a reversal of guidance issued at the onset of the pandemic that had created helpful…

Changes in UO expenditure authorizations from 2014 to 2020 budgets

Note: These data are from https://transparency.uoregon.edu/ They show authorized expenditures – not actual expenditures. For example, the Law School is authorised to spend $10.8M this year, they probably spent more that $18M. I’ve sorted these by the $ change from 2013-2014 to the 2019-2020 AY. Changes in accounting mean that…

Bargaining IV, 7/7/2020

Liveblog, usual disclaimer: my thoughts on what people are saying, trying to say, trying to be thinking, etc. Nothing is a quote unless in ” ” ‘s. None of the usual chit-chat. Cecil sent in some written questions, Matella waited until just now to give him the answers. She claims…