Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. Live cast here. Senators got an email today from Pres Skowron, allowing them to participate on-line. Good call. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron 3:10 P.M. Approval of the Minutes February 12, 2020…
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Pretty prescient, from the 2016 contract. IMG pays the Ducks a fee for the right to sell advertisements at games, license Puddles and the O for apparel, etc. Note that this language also lets them off the hook for just about anything else imaginable, including, as I read it, a…
This is the first one to make it through my spam filters. Please post any you get in the comments. Dear Professor Harbaugh, I’m reaching out to you about the on-going COVID-19 outbreak and the ways that McGraw-Hill can help. Recently, several schools have decided to suspend or are considering…
Must be a lot of zeros under there though. I wonder which of Moffitt’s budget buckets it will pour into. From https://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees2.uoregon.edu/files/meeting_materials_-_full_board_-_17_march_2020.pdf
From InsideHigherEd, here: … Sam Houston State’s proposal links poor collegiality assessments to comprehensive performance evaluations and assisted faculty development plans. Timelines for remediation vary by plan, but the maximum extension of any plan is one year. After that, the faculty member’s fate is in the hands of the dean…
Sporting events and exams may be cancelled, but isolated pockets of civilized life shall survive: Dear Colleagues, This week is the last week of the term for Faculty Club, which will meet this Wednesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 8:00, then resume meeting in week two of the Spring Term. …
Pretty detailed, at https://www.uoregon.edu/sites/www2.uoregon.edu/files/uo-eop_part-111_annex-i-pandemic_060514_rev02-2020.pdf
In the NYT here.
The Oregonian has the breaking news here.
Dear University of Oregon Faculty, As you are probably aware, the coronavirus situation is changing quickly as COVID-19 spreads and there is a lot of concern about how it may potentially disrupt our campus. The UO has fully activated the Incident Management Team (IMT), which is reviewing and updating the…
That is what Japan seems to be doing, according to this NYT report: Japan Shocks Parents by Moving to Close All Schools Over Coronavirus The country, unlike others, has not experienced a sharp increase in reported cases, but it is under pressure to act decisively to preserve the Tokyo Olympics.
In 2009. The response of former SVP Russ Tomlin to the 2009 swine flu is below. I don’t know why our Chief Resiliency Officer has not done this yet for the coronavirus. You’d think he’d have buckets of basics like this stashed away, along with crowbars for extricating faculty from…