UO Matters

Greetings, colleagues. As you likely have heard, the GTFF has declared an Intent to Strike starting Wednesday, January 17, 2024. An Intent to Strike is the last official requirement before a legal strike can occur. While there will be another bargaining session on January 11, all signs point to a…

January 8, 2024 2:00pm–3:00pm Emergency Mtg – remote via ZoomRemote Meeting  | Agenda | FileWinter 2024 Academic Council Reccomendations for Continuity 1-3-24.pdf Video of last week’s meeting here:

I *think* that’s Johnson Hall trying to claim that they’ve made a generous offer to the GE’s, though that’s hardly the only way to parse it. From Interim Provost Karen Ford’s email about the GTFF strike, which is scheduled for Jan 17: Dear UO faculty member,   The University of…

January 3, 2024 1:00pm–2:00pm Remote Meeting link Agenda: Winter 2024 Academic Council Reccomendations [sic] for Continuity – DRAFT.pdf

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president. This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words because I have…

by leaking their version of how Pres Gay botched her Congressional testimony to the Harvard Crimson. Yes I know the only people at UO who care about this are the Harvard alumni, and the people like me who only got into places like Columbia: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/wilmerhale-testimony-prep/

Bad news for good government. The Eugene Weekly has been hit by an embezzler, and will have to drastically scale back operations: https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/12/28/wheres-the-damn-paper/ …Shortly before Christmas, we discovered that EW had been the victim of embezzlement at the hands of someone we once trusted. We are still counting up the damage, but…

And the PR flacks too. How long until President Scholz does the same? The WSJ has the story: … Rosário sat down in front of his computer back in June and described the bill he wanted in a sentence. A perfectly-crafted law with eight articles came back, including a clause…

From the NYT: … He told the agents that he had a Ph.D. in economics and marketing and had worked as an economist in Russia a long time ago, according to an F.B.I. affidavit. He said he had not slept in three days and “did not understand what was going…

No disrespect to the Jesus of Lynchburg but if I cared enough to watch I’d go with Uncle Phil on this one – although the Eugene Weekly notes some similarities: Now the Ducks will face the Liberty University Flames in the Fiesta Bowl. Sounds like a mismatch, yes? But consider: Liberty,…

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: In a deal months in the making, the University of Wisconsin System has agreed to “reimagine” its diversity efforts, restructuring dozens of staff into positions serving all students and freezing the total number of diversity positions for the next three years. In exchange, universities would…

The Senate’s Academic Council has not even approved an Academic Continuity Plan yet – unless they’ve done so in secret – but Provost Woodruff-Borden is already encouraging faculty to trade academic rigor for administrative expediency. Full email here. A snippet: Instructors and research groups are strongly encouraged to develop coverage…

The Daily Emerald has the news here: “Thank you for the request, but we’d like to hold off on this one for now. Right now there wouldn’t be much more to say than was covered in the interview a few weeks ago,” Director of Issues Management [sic] Angela Seydel said…

When the UO Board of Trustees took over from the OUS in 2014, UO faculty were on average paid 92.4% of pay at our AAU public university comparators. As of 2021 UO pay had fallen to 84.1%, and it is now declining not only in relative terms, but also in…