Reported by Christian Hill, here. Read it all.
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It’s going to be a happy crowd down at the faculty club tonight. One faculty member noted “He made no visible relationships with anyone while he was here. It was obvious from the start he would not be here long.” Whoever wrote the provost’s letter got unnecessarily gushy considering the…
This is yet another outrageous example of administrators not understanding the “shared” part of shared governance, the bedrock principle behind the success of american higher education. In the NYT here: … Authorities said the crimes date back to 2011, and the defendants used “bribery and other forms of fraud to…
An NYT Op-Ed from 2016 by political scientist Samuel Abrams which just popped up in my twitter feed, because some Sarah Lawrence students are trying to get him fired for writing it: Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators The ideological bent of those overseeing collegiate life is having the biggest…
With basketball and event revenue running less than a third of Pat Kilkenny’s liars budget, the Ducks now want a liquor license for Knight Arena, because drunk football fans are just not enough: But hey, maybe the OLCC will do a better job protecting free speech than UO’s General Counsel…
and the decline in unionization rates is responsible for twice as much of the increase in inequality as previously believed. Declining real minimum wages also have had a larger effect on increased inequality than found in previous studies with older data. That’s the takeaway from the first 30 minutes of…
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As President Schill considers where to cut, one obvious place is the UOPD budget. While UO has its problems, a crime wave is not one of them. The most easily accessible data I can find is here, and it shows a continuing decline in violent crime, and no increase in…
That would be former President Dave Frohnmayer, in April 2009. The previous year Frohnmayer had negotiated a $150K raise for himself, and at the time of this public meeting he was negotiating a golden parachute retirement contract that included a paid sabbatical which he used to restart his legal career…
Pres Schill’s email sent 12:42 PM 3/5/2019 Dear University of Oregon campus community: Over the last few months, we have communicated with a wide variety of campus stakeholders to let them know that the University of Oregon is going into a difficult budget cycle. Vice President for Finance and Administration…
TUESDAY, MARCH 5 – 10:00 A.M.: CONVENE PUBLIC MEETING – Call to order, roll call, verification of quorum – Approval of December 2018 minutes (Action) Meeting materials here. – Public comment Community Member David Igl asks why there are still no interpretative materials posted at Deady Hall, and provides his usual…
3/5/2019 update: As Milton Friedman often said, it sure is easy for Rob Mullens to spend the University of Oregon’s money. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a contract that pays an employee 70% of a year’s salary if they voluntarily quit. WTF? Reporter Gabriel Ornelas has the story in…
UO’s federal accreditors, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, requires that every university board “regularly evaluates its performance to ensure its duties and responsibilities are fulfilled in an effective and efficient manner.” When I requested copies of these evaluations for our Board, I imagined I’d get some sort of…
From InsideHigherEd, here. UO uses a “holistic admissions” policy which includes race/ethnicity as a factor. It’s a bit surprising to see how little support this has outside academia: Here’s what people think should matter: And I was surprised to learn that our use of race/ethnicity is unusual. According to a…
Board of Trustees | Finance and Facilities Committee Public Meeting | March 4, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m. Erb Memorial Union | Redwood Auditorium Convene – Call to order, roll call – Approval of December 2018 FFC minutes (Action) Meeting materials here. 1. Quarterly Financial Reports: Jamie Moffitt, Vice President for Finance…