Dear Colleague, I would like to invite all members of United Academics to a Town Hall on Monday, June 8 from noon to 1:30. The Zoom link is below. We are soliciting questions from members on a variety of issues we are facing as a community. We will have officers…
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Link to their twitter here. For some history on past such efforts for reform by UO’s black students, there’s a good 2019 piece on Around the O, here. While it has the mandatory puffery about the vital roles of President Schill and VP Alex-Assensoh (both on the job market) and…
https://twitter.com/danamsparks/status/1269736096939700224?s=20
From the BBC, in Bristol: Further empirical research needs to be done to determine if all such statues are so poorly attached to their pedestals. 8/21/2018: Video captures UNC students in sensible act of vandalism InsideHigherEd report here. … The move came after years of debate. As many…
In the Daily Emerald, here: … Our university leaders tell us what they — and we — can do about our feelings of outrage, which lie in “education, research, and leadership.” That is not true. University leaders have the power to begin correcting the decades-long momentum in our country toward…
A brave man. Trustees are not supposed to disagree with Lillis in public. I’m sure there will be consequences. I hope there may be action. First he pointed out to Duck AD Rob Mullens that it’s the football players – mostly black – whose unpaid labor earns 75% of the…
Live! I’ll try and add some commentary below, but it’s pretty depressing realizing these are the people who actually control our university, and I’m not sure I’ve got the stomach to watch it all. Befuddled chairman of the board Chuck Lillis needs a little help with the tubes: As usual…
Severance payments to former coaches, from 2015 to present: Presumably the money came from Duck boosters who couldn’t think of a way to support UO’s academic mission, or just don’t care. I wonder if the Foundation and UO Development exempted these donations from their usual administrative and fundraising charges, as…
Dana in the Oregonian in 2014, after the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner: 12/10/2014: Coach Dana Altman thinks National Anthem is the wrong time to protest racism Our fool of a basketball coach thinks he owns those players. They shouldn’t protest when he’s trying to collect his $2M paycheck,…
In June 2015 UO projected that debt expense payments for 2021 would be about $43M a year: Now in June 2020 they are projecting debt expense payments for 2021 will be about $58M a year – a $15M increase: Why the increase? Mostly for 30 year bonds sold to build…
UO will be in the red on this deal until at least 2025. It’s all preliminary, as follow up to this RFP, but it’s on the Board of Trustee’s agenda for June 4. The payments are back-loaded – the earnest money deposit is only $150K net – so it’s not going…
They’re going to hold a workshop, some forums, and “potentially a course dedicated to examining structural barriers to racial equity in the COVID-19 era”. Some bragging about what they’ve done over the past 5 years. Maybe some more implicit bias training? No mention of holding more Jeffersonian Dinners with our…
Important Note: Canvas “anonymous” surveys aren’t really anonymous — apparently it’s possible for faculty to identify submissions, though it takes a few steps of deliberate action! It’s therefore a good idea to do one of the following: (i) if using Canvas, be transparent about this flaw, but tell your students…
5/28/2020: Actually the agenda for their June 4th meeting isn’t posted yet, so it’s unclear if this will be among the cost-savings measures to be considered. Maybe they’ll cut baseball instead. 5/15/2020: UO Law School needs $250M to avoid financial exigency It now costs UO’s law school about $170K to…