A generally well-informed CoD professor notes that she was not the preferred choice of Dean Lindner, and provides this anonymous endorsement: She is calm, capable, wise, fair-minded and well respected by her peers, across departments. People trust her, and trust is an important issue after three years under a dean…
Posts tagged as “College of Design”
It’s going to be a happy crowd down at the faculty club tonight. One faculty member noted “He made no visible relationships with anyone while he was here. It was obvious from the start he would not be here long.” Whoever wrote the provost’s letter got unnecessarily gushy considering the…
Daily Emerald reporters Michael Tobin and Zach Price have the scoop here, read it all. Some snippets: Three University of Oregon professors associated with the university’s Portland architecture program are suing UO and College of Design Dean Christoph Lindner for just under $4.3 million, alleging that Lindner and the university engaged…
4/7/2018 update: Actually, as much as the administration wants to ignore it, the Senate’s hardfought Policy on Academic Freedom does too: c. POLICY AND SHARED GOVERNANCE. Members of the university community have freedom to address, question, or criticize any matter of institutional policy or practice, whether acting as individuals or as…
Sorry for the long post. Those who know the history should cut to the bottom for the new letter from the faculty. The UO administration has a long history of making vague charges of bullying, harassment, and “incivility” against faculty who complain about administrative misfeasance and malfeasance, or otherwise question…
Dear Colleagues, The Faculty Club will be meeting this week, during the usual hours (Wednesdays and Thursdays 5:00-8:00 pm). We’ll close during Exam Week and Spring Break, and then open again in Week One of the Spring Term. The Senate-sponsored “Talk to Your Dean Night” series continues this week with…
I don’t know who wrote the Provost’s letter below, but it doesn’t strike me as Banavar’s style. In any case the faculty union has now sent the architecture faculty a thoughtful response: Dear Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture Faculty,On Friday, Provost Banavar sent the faculty of the Department of…
The Head of School spoke, the Dean of the CoD did not. That’s most of what I know, except for the fact that their new website makes it pretty damn hard to find a list of the faculty. Their web-designer should try https://xkcd.com/773/.
Michael Tobin has the report in the Emerald here: Six months after the launch of the College of Design, some faculty members are complaining about a new level of bureaucracy and the fate of some of the old programs. Also, some faculty members are unhappy over a controversial court decision…
That’s the rumor. Apparently they want their own autonomous school of architecture. The Faculty Club opens Wednesday at 5PM.