The original timeline is here. Two of the 22 members are UO Senators, elected by the Senate CAS Caucus. Karen Ford, chair of the task force, has agreed that the UO Senate should vote on any reorganization of CAS. Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar 11/20/2018 Dear Colleagues, President…
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Sort of makes you wonder how Eric Roedl is still able to extract $1.7M in fees from ASUO for “free tickets”:
That would be the University of New Mexico. Daniel Libit has the story here: UNM COUGHS UP $35K TO EXIT RECORDS CASE By Daniel Libit The University of New Mexico continues to run up a tab for its anti-transparency past. As part of a recent settlement agreement, the school has agreed…
Turning Point is a well-funded right-wing agit-prop group that regularly tries to get me to repost links to their poorly written and researched stories about left-wing agit-prop professors, e.g. a recent one about the fact that no UO faculty give money to Republican candidates. (The $5K that Chuck Lillis gave…
The NYT has his Op-Ed here.
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2018/11/live_updates_dana_altman_orego_1.html His contract and incentive bonuses are here.
Two interesting processes are coming to a head soon. First is the lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd alleging UO underpaid her for years, despite the pleas of her department head to the CAS associate dean, and the conclusions of an external review committee. See my “Nevertheless she persisted” post here.…
10/16/2018: It’s now three months since CAS Dean Andrew Marcus announced his resignation, over policy differences with the President and Provost, and almost 2 months since they announced a task force to study potential CAS reorganization.
On Oct 31 the Senate’s CAS Caucus elected two senators to the CAS recombination task force: Pedro Garcia-Caro (RL) and Karen White (Anthropology).
But there’s still no news from the administration as to who will fill the remaining 19 slots. If you know anything more please post a comment.
9/24/2018: Provost Banavar appoints Bruce Blonigen to lead CAS, and Karen Ford to work on whether or not to split it up
The August 17th post about Dean Marcus’s resignation is here.
Sent on behalf of Provost Jayanth Banavar
Update: The WaPo has more here. From InsideHigherEd: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a proposed rule Friday that would revamp expectations for colleges’ handling of campus-based sexual misconduct. The regulation — the first the federal government has issued on the matter — was crafted to clarify requirements for colleges and to add…
Bob Keefer has a detailed report in the Eugene Weekly, here.
Unpaid isn’t quite the right word though. Apparently Le Duc paid the consultants. This is nuts. Chief Resilience Officer Andre Le Duc: … The project we are doing with CAS is a pilot project designed to test the tool at a US university. Resilient Organizations has been using the benchmark…
While the empirical evidence that VP’s for Diversity, 5-year IDEAL plans, mandatory implicit bias training, and expensive “Diversity Action Plans” like we have at UO make any difference is at best mixed, this new paper – from a new Princeton economist – makes it pretty clear that having a female…
The NYT has the story here.
This guy always looks so angry. You’d think he’s trying to get appointed to the Supreme Court. At least this time it’s not about his unpaid student-athletes protesting for #blacklivesmatter. The Oregonian has the latest info on the University of Oregon’s second highest paid employee: By Brad Schmidt and Jeff Manning |…