Is that the Faculty Club will meet 5-8PM Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Art Museum, starting this Wednesday.
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Apparently Dean Lindner thinks he can, and Provost Banavar is backing him up. I’m wondering how we can recruit new faculty if they know that their job can be moved from, say, Eugene to Portland without their consent. This does not seem well thought out. Fortunately for the sake of…
try UO physicist Raghu Parthasarathy’s Eighteenth Elephant blog here. A snippet: … Think small. Obviously, we should tackle areas that are important, but this in itself isn’t a sufficient criterion. If this adventure is going to have an impact, it needs to select areas in which relatively small-scale effort can pay off. What does…
General Membership Meeting The first General Membership Meeting of the academic year will be this Thursday, September 27, 5-7pm in Gerlinger Lounge. Avinnash Tiwari, our Politics Committee Chair, will talk through our endorsements, and specifically how they impact us as a University community. There are some tricky, and troubling, propositions he’ll summarize…
Dear University of Oregon community members, In October 2014, before my arrival on the UO campus, the university announced what was then an audacious goal of raising $2 billion to strengthen this institution in ways never before considered. It has been an honor to work alongside so many of you…
I was going to lay some snark on this, but the authoritative Scrabble Solver website says it’s a word: Respect. I shall comply.
The informational CPFM website is here, meetings are September 27, 12:00pm-1pm, EMU Lobby September 27, 4:30pm-6pm, Ford Alumni Center Lobby Campus Planning Committee (CPC), October 2 The three likely site are the PLC parking lot, Mac Court, and, my personal favorite, the hopefully soon to be empty lot formerly known as Collier…
Actually, this job seems to be about union bargaining, though potential applicants will have to wade through a lot of b.s. before they get to that part: HR Project Manager – Interim Apply now Job no: 522975 Work type: Officer of Administration Location: Eugene, OR Categories: Human Resources, Planning/Project Management Department: Human Resources Appointment Type and…
At $9.99, the spot market implies a somewhat lower value for whatever it is they bring to UO. Odd that their contracts don’t give them an incentive to bring in more revenue. I wonder who wrote those deals?
September 19, 2018 Dear University of Oregon faculty members, I am pleased to share with you some important information regarding the fiscal year 2019 salary increases for both represented and non-represented tenure-track faculty (TTF) and career non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) at the University of Oregon. The fiscal year salary increases will…
Video here. A few years ago it would have seemed silly to restart this long-standing UO tradition, but that was before Brett Kavanaugh. So thanks to the Dean of Students for making it easy to add your name as out or an ally, with a quick online survey: The OUTList is a…
I’m no slave to metrics, but who are you going to believe? Professor Christine Blasey, who’s most cited work is the very useful sounding Sage book on “Statistical Power Analysis in Research“, with 1343 citations since 2015: With increased emphasis on helping readers understand the context in which power calculations are done,…
9/12/2018: I can think of many reasons why UO, a public university, would want to redact the advice it received from one of its outside attorneys (and the response from the University Architect) on whether or not it would be a good idea to split the CUP request into two…
Say what you will about Dave Hubin’s management of UO’s Public Records Office, but at least when Dave was in charge they only redacted responses: Under Kevin Reed, they’re now redacting the requests too. On Friday I submitted two requests: one for three recent contract proposals, the other for a…
Just kidding. I’m sure Coach Altman is 100% behind Colin Kaepernick’s use of free speech and athletics to bring attention to racism in America, now that the big money is too. Of course a few years ago Altman’s views were a little different. From the Oregonian: