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- New Pres Karl Scholz “handles... (3)
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Seriously, the EW article is all about secrecy, the obsessions about diversity, pseudo-psychiatric evaluation (implicit bias?). Not a word about... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Effin' A! }
- Powerball { "Scholz’s contract says he’ll make $725,000 in his first year." IIRC, Schill made $660,000 in his first year starting in... }
- Anonymouse { Better than "the way you'd expect a lawyer to handle it". If you follow the link you'll see it's mostly... }
- Smug Interim Provost tries to... (7)
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Yeah, things are going great. Ask those forced to use shared services, Tykeson advising, or search for classrooms. And DEI... }
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { If you haven't looked at the newer campus climate survey documents, you should. The answer to FAQ #6 ("What about... }
- uomatters { I try not to read emails from Woodruff-Borden anymore, but a colleague sent me this one and I posted it... }
- TRPer { You've done it Harbaugh, you've made me nostalgic for Moseley. Now I must go spit out some vomit. }
- thedude { Admins about low faculty pay. Let them eat DEI training and group belonging therapy. }
- uomatters { I believe you, but a reputation for giving the university's money away to faculty is not going to go over... }
- thedude { You know what help my sense of belonging and department retention. Raises that more than keep up with inflation. }
- Small minded sports columnist mocks... (3)
- CSN { That's a good point -- at my undergraduate institution no alcohol was sold at the football games and yet, somehow,... }
- uomatters { Well, not serving alcohol would be a start - but then that helps pay the coaches salaries. }
- CSN { I'm not sure what coaches and ADs are supposed to do about this situation. This feels like a thing where... }
- UO Administration loses their "strategic... (9)
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { Trying to recall the specifics, but likely one incident--perhaps comment rather than joke--that would raise DEI eyebrows a bit (the... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { Boiled Duck -- have they really been cracking such jokes? Somehow, I doubt it. And I hope not. I'd rather... }
- uomatters { Not heartening. }
- Simplius Simplicissimus { I fed ChatGPT the Interim President's letter and asked for a funny comment. Here it is: Richie Hunter V2 (a.k.a.... }
- Slowly Boiled IT Duck { Thanks for flagging that, honest UG. It's a shameful accolade, but I have some slight hope that this is a... }
- honest Uncle Gangsta { For what it's worth, UO has been named one of the 10 worst campuses in the country for academic freedom... }
- uomatters { No, no, please name names! }
- Johnson Hall { Seeing a useless VP jump ship before the new President takes over is a good sign. I'm not naming names,... }
- UO Board appoints competent outsider... (23)
- Lame Duck { Wait, I thought Phil Knight was UO President? Is he stepping down? }
- Thedude { The evil one gave us our biggest raises. }
- moss defender { a competent person in charge of a dysfunctional sinking ship is just a slightly slower trip to the bottom of... }
- uomatters { Not to say I'd feel the same way if it was, say, Larry Summers. }
- uomatters { I was going to criticize this comment for not mentioning other dimensions of what's important in a Pres, but then... }
- Old fart (she/her) { Excuse me while I hold a muted applause since this is the 5th white dude President UO had since I... }
- Cheyney Ryan { I do speak for myself, that's why I use my real name in these posts. Old white men seem do... }
- uomatters { I don't think we'd have had the Knight Campus without Patrick's willingness to work with Uncle Phil. He took a... }
- Senate to Vote this Wed... (1)
- Fishwrapper { I mean, that's the whole point, the raison d'etre behind this whole enterprise, right? What more appropriate way to celebrate... }
- Despite SVB, former UO Board... (4)
- moss defender { bigger mystery who has the civil war soldier head from campus cemetery....pretty sure that was in a Simpsons episode...the replacement... }
- { You left out the lawsuits from when he was on the Medco board. }
- uomatters { Here's hoping any connection is merely geographic. }
- Townie { UO’s endowment is now managed by a Silicon Valley firm (Jasper Ridge). }
- CAS Dean Chris Poulsen asks... (6)
- Hart { So if you are a history/english double major (not a super unusual configuration), you're supposed to sit through a long... }
- honest Uncle Bernie { Such a telling and inauspicious way to hold commencement, starting with the delay for the track stuff. There's just so... }
- Unhappy Classified Camper { And, as a classified member of one of these ridiculous CAS Shared Services/ASU, I was told I was to not... }
- oldtimer { All good comments. My general reaction is ‘what a brilliantly student-centered change from departmental major ceremonies to a three ring... }
- { A little off topic, but if you bold a sentence should you also add: (emp added). This double emphasis would... }
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- New Pres Karl Scholz “handles university administration the way you’d expect an economist to handle it.” https://t.co/t8MItI1L0l, Mar 24
- Smug Interim Provost tries to distract her underpaid faculty colleagues by “fostering their sense of belonging” https://t.co/ATGypH0Ekk, Mar 23
- Small minded sports columnist mocks State Rep Janelle Bynum for her courageous stand against drunken sports fans https://t.co/eEWTI5UfgJ, Mar 22
- UO Law School runs afoul of ABA’s diversity quota https://t.co/yxqdfaft3A, Mar 21
- Northwestern Journalism students write post-mortem for Pres Michael Schill’s years at UO https://t.co/31MfiYXwsK, Mar 20
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Recent Posts
- New Pres Karl Scholz “handles university administration the way you’d expect an economist to handle it.” 03/24/2023
- Smug Interim Provost tries to distract her underpaid faculty colleagues by “fostering their sense of belonging” 03/22/2023
- Small minded sports columnist mocks State Rep Janelle Bynum for her courageous stand against drunken sports fans 03/22/2023
- UO Law School runs afoul of ABA’s diversity quota 03/21/2023
- Northwestern Journalism students write post-mortem for Pres Michael Schill’s years at UO 03/20/2023
- Provost and Trustees kick back in glee as faculty fight it out over who gets the smallest merit pay cut. 03/17/2023
- UO Administration loses their “strategic thought partner”, will replace her with ChatGPT 03/16/2023
- Senate to Vote this Wed on fixing graduation 03/14/2023
- UO Board appoints competent outsider as new President – John Karl Scholz from UW-Madison 03/13/2023
- Despite SVB, former UO Board Chair Chuck Lillis still holds record for largest US bank failure 03/12/2023
- CAS Dean Chris Poulsen asks you not to forward his commencement email to your students 03/08/2023
- UO Board meets to name new President 03/08/2023
- Admin now using Concur to keep tabs on your teaching 12/05/2022
- Public Records Lawsuit Against University Foundation goes to Supreme Court 12/04/2022
- Provost Woodruff-Borden et al. deliver ultimatum to exploitative Elsevier 11/18/2022
- President Phillips to deliver State of UO address from a secure off-campus location 11/17/2022
- Pres Phillips expects that yet more committee busy-work will improve campus culture? 11/16/2022
- VP for enrollment emails faculty with great UO enrollment numbers 11/15/2022
- Another big-time college football program collapses, to the indifference of students, alumni, and locals. 11/11/2022
- Pres Phillips plans to hold graduation at football stadium, ban “rogue” department ceremonies 11/09/2022
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