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…
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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…
No panic yet, (although see the change.org petition from students here) and the university has processes in place for an orderly response, at least in terms of classes and grades, and it’s under the control of the faculty and Senate.
The Academic Continuity Policy was passed by the Senate and adopted by the University Administration last year, and is designed to cover situations like this. The gist is that, after the University President declares an Emergency, the Senate’s Academic Council can declare a “Significant Academic Disruption” and authorize an “Academic Continuity Plan” which could authorize emergency grades, etc:
- The Academic Continuity Plan shall include provisions for continuation of academic activities and awarding of grades. Because a Significant Academic Disruption will affect academic activities differently across campus, the academic continuity plan shall provide a range of options which maintain academic integrity, transparency for students, and fairness for students as described above. These might include alternative instructional times and methods, use of online technology for instruction and assignments, modified assignments, extended deadlines, exceptions to prerequisites and grade requirements, etc.
- Department heads, under the direction of their Dean, will coordinate implementation of the academic continuity plan with instructors in their unit.
It’s at https://policies.uoregon.edu/vol-2-academics-instruction-research/ch-1-curriculum-instruction/academic-continuity-and-emergency and the full text is below, followed by a message from the Provost.
3/2/2020: Nigel Jaquiss has the story in Willamette Week, here. The donation was made in January. Nike’s ROI is $20,000,000/$25,000, or $800 per dollar invested, assuming the Legislature passes the pork legislation, and Gov. Brown then signs it. She’s term limited, so what will she spend it on? 12/9/2020: Quid Pro…
3/2/2020: Here’s hoping our bond raters aren’t paying too much attention. 7/30/2019: Internal Auditor Trisha Burnett leaving in 3 weeks From Around the O, here. If she has another job lined up they don’t mention it. When UO left OUS, it became exempt from oversight by the Secretary of State’s…
Governor Brown had reappointed her to a 4-year term just last year. The Board’s next meetings are March 16-17th, in Eugene. Begin forwarded message: From: Board of Trustees <[email protected]> Subject: Board of Trustees Update – Vacancy and Appointment Process Date: March 2, 2020 at 1:43:42 PM PST To: Board of…