While President Schill’s charge to the task force told them not to make a recommendation for or against breakup, they ignored this, and recommend against a breakup. He has accepted their advice, for now. Perhaps the new provost will try to restart this fight someday, but the report from Karen…
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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 Remarks: President Schill 3:29 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and May 22, 2019 3:30 PM Business / Reports: Vote on Other Curricular Matters included in the…
Presumably he’ll be sending Gottfredson an invoice for his billable hours. Full opinion here. The abstract: Thanks to an anonymous commenter for the tip.
The Oregonian’s Ken Goe reports here: … The Ducks had just one regular-season home meet in 2017 and two 2018, in part, because of delays in Hayward’s reconstruction timeline. There were no home meets this year. Next year is in question. The NCAA championships, held at Hayward from 2013-18, have…
6/3/2019 update: I think the most dysfunctional aspect of this secret search is that whoever gets the job of leader of UO’s academic side will not be able to make a plausible claim that they have a mandate from the faculty. The RG’s Jordyn Brown reports that UO will not…
6/7/2019 update:
Elizabeth Skowron (Psychology) is Senate President for the 19-20 AY. Elliot Berkman will be VP, and then Senate President for 20-21.
6/3/2019: Elliot Berkman (psych) only Senate VP candidate for Wed. election
I won’t be running again, and so far this is the only candidate statement posted on the Senate webpage here:
Berkman Candidate Statement
May 29, 2019
Reporting a potential violation of UO’s Academic Freedom Policy: Pres Schill’s response to an inquiry from the Senate President and Past President: From: Mike Schill <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Reporting a potential violation of UO’s Academic Freedom Policy Date: May 29, 2019 at 9:35:40 AM PDT To: Senate President <[email protected]>, Jayanth…
The Johnson Hall lobby has been the primo spot for sit-ins since Nam, Workers Rights, and Dana Altman’s players rape allegations. My favorite was the UO Divest campaign, where emotions ran so high the protestors refused the chocolate Pres Schill brought them. Then Kevin Reed had to ruin the good…
That is a trick question. No one could answer that question. The ’87 Caballero didn’t come with a vacuum distributor. It came with a computer controlled distributor. However, if you were to retrofit it with a vacuum advance distributor for $55 off ebay, the correct ignition timing would be 10…
Update: UO to start using 2-factor identification, someday. No word on whether they’re also going to make me change the duckweb password I’ve used for assigning grades and direct payroll deposit since 1995. Town Hall today at 1 in the Knight browsing room. Thanks to an anonymous reader for forwarding:…
Dean Adriene Lim of the UO Libraries will step down in July This message about the departure of Adriene Lim, dean of Libraries and Philip H. Knight Chair, was sent by Provost Banavar to faculty and staff in the UO Libraries. May 28, 2019 Dear Colleagues, I am writing to…
Reporter Zach Demars, here. The story mostly goes along with VPFA Jamie Moffitt’s view of the causes of the budget crisis and like our easily manipulated Board of Trustees, avoids discussing solutions such as cutting athletic subsidies, central administrative costs, or consulting projects such as the new faculty tracking software.…
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…
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.…