Gina Scaplone had the story last week in the Emerald. Colleen Flaherty at InsideHigherEd has more here. Some snippets: Jennifer Freyd, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, has spent years studying the concept of institutional betrayal, including when institutions don’t help right the wrongs committed within them. Now Freyd…
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Oregonian sportswriter Ken Goe does the due diligence that our board of trustees won’t, here. According to the numbers from VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt, eliminating baseball would allow UO to cut its proposed 8% tuition increase for in-state undergrads to about 4%.
Say it ain’t so! The Daily Emerald’s Michael Tobin reports that UO General Counsel Reed is not investigating, but he is interested in going to LA to meet Michael Avenatti and receive more information from him. But not to investigate. UNLV is investigating, but Reed is just probing the situation.…
HB 2353 has now passed the Oregon House and Senate unanimously, and Governor Brown is expected to sign it soon: I like how the fine goes to the requester of the records. This emergency legislation is indeed necessary for the sake of the public peace. In the past year the…
90 minutes after UO’s gutless Board of Trustees votes to raise in-state tuition: The Oregonian’s James Crepea has the story here.
Just kidding, there’s no sign that Faculty Trustee Laura Lee McIntyre will make any such motion, or raise any questions about why the board continues to rubber-stamp raises for Rob Mullens and his coaches while increasing undergraduate tuition and cutting museums. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Th 9:30 AM FORD ALUMNI CENTER…
11-2 today. Thanks to a reader for the tip: As you know, “The Pioneer” is a statue that glorifies white supremacy and settler-colonial violence against people of color, especially Native people. NASU is holding a protest to take the statue down THIS WEDNESDAY from 11am to 2pm. Please pass this…
See below for some light live-blogging. So far my takeaway is that most of the trustees haven’t done their homework and are asking softball questions, when they have any questions at all. Note that Wednesday’s public committee meetings and the executive (closed) meeting of the board are in the Art…
Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms)3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Bill Harbaugh 3:15 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and May 8, 2019 3:16 PM Business / Reports: Deactivation of Ombuds committee; Heather Quarles (RL) – see https://ombuds.uoregon.edu/what-does-ombuds-program-do Report: Faculty Personnel…
From InsideHigherEd, here. Read it all. The intro: Boost for Community Colleges Means 1-Year Bust for Universities New analysis of Oregon Promise tuition-free scholarship program found that it increased community college enrollment but decreased enrollment at four-year institutions in the first year, and that fewer first-generation and low-income students benefited…
Blurb at https://provost.uoregon.edu/ay2019-20-institutional-hiring-plan list at https://provost.uoregon.edu/sites/provost2.uoregon.edu/files/2019_institutional_hiring_plan_5-21-19.pdf
Update: The Chronicle’s Zipporah Osei has an interview with me here (gated off campus). Q. Do you think you would’ve been able to work with the administration, given the reputation you have with your blog? A. Ironically, I have a very good working relationship with the university’s current president, Michael H.…
The email sent on his behalf below would seem to go against the advice in President Schill’s Open Mike from last week, which said: Transparency is the best policy. Whenever possible administrators should be as forthcoming as possible, subject to the privacy rights of members of our community. as well as…
Colleagues, I am the first person to admit that I am not an expert when it comes to social media and the way that information is consumed, created, and shared in our digital-first world. I like to follow friends on Facebook and I fully appreciate that Instagram and Snapchat are…
5/17/2019 update:
The Oregonian’s Rob Davis reveals still more of the documents UO tried to hide from the public, including more new information about the redactions by Kevin Reed’s Public Record Office.
If I understand the story right, Reed’s office let the lobbying group decide what UO should redact from UO’s public records. They made some interesting choices. Weird. Full story here with links to all the records:
What UO didn’t want the public to know about industry group’s climate bill opposition
… The newly released documents documents include the alliance’s legislative updates, lobbyist reports and memorandums to members. The university originally contended portions of the documents were protected by the attorney-client privilege and by an exemption allowing material submitted confidentially to be withheld in very narrow circumstances.
Ed Finklea, the alliance’s natural gas director, told The Oregonian/OregonLive it was the energy alliance’s attorney who made the redactions when the university released the records. Molly Blancett, a school spokeswoman, said the university “always solicits the input of third parties when it comes to their records that have made their way to the university’s possession.”
The clean documents show a consistent theme in what was initially redacted: References to potential benefits of Brown’s proposed climate change bill. …
5/14/2019 update:
I have it from a generally reliable source that, as of yesterday, UO has withdrawn its membership in AWEC, the industry group that is lobbying against Governor Brown’s Cap and Trade legislation.
5/12/2019: It backfired. Rob Davis has the story in the Oregonian, here. A few snippets: