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Senate votes unanimously for Elizabeth Skowron as VP/President elect

6/5/218: Senate meets today in REDWOOD room for curriculum vote, awards DRAFT Location: EMU 214 (Redwood Auditorium) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.   Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate Vice President Bill Harbaugh Update from Johnson Hall 3:30 P.M. Approval of Minutes, May 23, 2018 3:35 P.M.   Business Spring 2018…

HR Director Nancy Resnick leaves for UCSD, UO will hold open search for replacement

From around the o: Going forward, I have asked Kaia Rogers, Senior Director of Human Resources Programs, Services and Strategic Initiatives, and Missy Matella, Senior Director of Employee and Labor Relations to jointly assume leadership of the Human Resources department. Kaia will be overseeing operations in HR programs and services,…

CAS Dean Andrew Marcus gets creative about how Stabile got “imagineer” job

6/4/2018 update: Reporter Casey Crowley has the story in the Emerald, here: The ADSI will be part of the dean’s leadership team and will be tasked with developing, planning and implementing new strategic initiatives for the CAS. Stabile will not have permanent oversight of staff or budgets decisions. “She will;…

City gives OK for demolishing soon to be former Historic Hayward Field

Update: As of Friday. Only Hayduke can stop the bulldozers now. It’s public property, but there’s no process for input from anyone but the UO President and the donor. Update: Can Historic Hayward Field supporters convince Uncle Phil to call off the bulldozers? Austin Meek has many new details in the…

Hayward Field teardown public info meeting Th May 31st at 7PM, Agate Hall

UO will permanently close 15th, build plaza for Slusher’s Schlong. The RG has the story here, With the usual PR flack BS: Closing East 15th Avenue would result in the loss of 115 parking spaces used by students, employees and visitors, said UO spokeswoman Molly Blancett. “Based on our most…

New AAEO Director Tracey Tsugawa disappears from AAEO website

Update: If anyone knows what’s really going on, please post a comment. Around the O has the official trust-destroying non-explanation from strategic communicator Tobin Klinger here. It’s all part of “Ensuring the University of Oregon has an inclusive and welcoming campus”: The University of Oregon is forming a new Office of Civil…

UO to cut down 23 trees for Hayward Field Folly – naming contest for phallus opens

The RG has the story here. More in the EW here, explaining that the city forester wants to ensure the replacements are more diverse than the current east-coast elite elm monoculture. No confirmation yet to rumors that the Faculty Advisory Committee will vote to name the new phallus “Slusher’s Schlong”,…

NOW: Senate to meet today at 3PM on IHP, teaching evaluations, diff tuition

Update: Teaching evaluation and improvement motion passes. Hannah Kanik has a report in the Emerald here. Senate website here. Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake Rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M.   Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Chris Sinclair [Today will be Chris’s last Senate meeting as…