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Note: I’ve changed the headline of this post, in an effort to raise the tone of discourse and limit the slow drip of toxicity. Recent AAU presidents are Bob Berdahl, Hunter Rawlings the IIIrd, and now Mary Sue Coleman. Berdahl took in $619K as “past president” from this scam prestigious organization of publicly…
In the RG here. I think it makes more sense to judge these presidents by what they do than by what they say, but this statement about the AAU has some people worried: Schill said it’s not fruitful for the UO to worry about whether it will be asked to…
The rumor is Berdahl secured us a few years of grace, but the new UO Board doesn’t have long to produce the resources they promised to bring to the table, in return for getting independence from the state.
Update: The official UO post on the mission statement mentioned below is now getting some comments, here. As President, Dave Frohnmayer would trot out UO’s AAU membership as a way of silencing faculty who criticized him for shifting priorities, administrative effort, and money towards his goal of running a big-time…
10/21/2013: President Gottfredson is at the fall AAU meeting now: Current Schedule SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. 2 years ago the AAU kicked out Nebraska, and Syracuse voluntarily left. See below. In March, UO told our…
Update: Can Oregon’s flagship university stay in the AAU? If so what do we need to do? That seems like a question of public interest. But not to President Gottfredson, whose public records office is trying to charge UO student journalists $94 for the records: Public records fees charged by the…
of Connecticut: The $1.5 billion construction component is an investment in building new scientific laboratories, purchasing advanced equipment, constructing new classrooms, and adding housing. The state will also invest $137 million in operating funds to hire hundreds of new faculty, and to expand the student body in STEM fields (science,…
Several people have now sent me copies of this, thanks. It was written after a multitude of complaints about how VP for Research Kimberly Espy was handling her job, and concern over the consequences for UO’s research mission and our efforts to stay in the AAU. The authors are 3…