Today, 3/6/13. I’ll try and live blog it. The union’s need to respond to Gottfredson’s mini-raise ultimatum by next week has raised the stakes for this considerably. Wednesday, March 6:3:30pm – 5:00pmLawrence Hall 115 3/2/13: Our JH contacts report that their bosses are going to plead poverty when the Union…
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4/16/2013 update: Gottfredson’s first month or so at UO. The ratio of meetings cleary about sports to meetings clearly about academics is 5 to 11: 3/6/2013: Nearly 2 months late, and after a $108 public records charge, President Gottfredson’s official calendar finally arrived. You can download all 57 pages here. A snippet?…
Postmortem: Rudnick said that Gottfredson’s 2 year 2.5% “COLA” and 2% merit puddle was a take it or leave it offer, because of UO’s “financial constraints”. If the union takes it, there will be no more merit or across the board raises until September 2014. There is still a possibility…
… he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Samuel Johnson Lame Duck Interim Provost Bean figures out how to give himself another raise, regardless of whether Gottfredson lets him have an administrative sinecure next year, or makes him start teaching. Fortunately it means raises…
2/25/2013: My live-blogging of the bargaining sessions is mostly sober, but not that reflective: Rudnick seems to be scheming to weaken the Faculty Personnel Committee. Check out last year’s FPC report, chaired by Mike Russo, here. It includes three pages on issues with current procedures, here. Looks like considerable overlap…
Prologue: Gottfredson fired Bean yesterday, after lots of faculty pressure. A good day for UO, probably the best since we got rid of Frohnmayer. The Senate will chase off Espy next, then Geller. The polling suggests that people see Westhead as Mullens’ problem. Fair enough. Tops on today’s bargaining agenda…
Update: Prof. Barbara Altmann accuses faculty union of supporting child pornography. Update #4 on the Admin blog, for today 2/7/2013: In perhaps the most extreme section, the Union proposed that “[t]he content of faculty profiles in social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) shall not be considered during any evaluation of a…
That would be the Governor of Connecticut, talking about UConn and, mostly, STEM. Not clear but the financing seems to involve bond sales, a la Richard Lariviere: Increase faculty in science, technology and engineering by 258 at the three campuses, in addition to 290 new faculty the university is in…
Jeff Mapes has an excellent story in the Oregonian. 1/26/2013.
An appeal to reason: President Gottfredson, fire these lawyers before they destroy our university. Put CAS Dean Scott Coltrane in charge of your bargaining team. Build some trust with your faculty before it is too late.Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said, meant to say, or should have said. Nothing…
Updates, posted on request of VPAA Doug Blandy and Jean Stockard.UO Matters said to Blandy: Hi Doug – a bit about your claim UO has not engaged in retaliation, here: https://uomatters.com/2013/01/live-blog-bargaining-v-12213.html Blandy replied: Bill, That was not my claim. I stated that when people come forward with a grievance I believe the…
previous post was wrong, thanks to reader for correction, bargaining is every other week.
1/11/13: Thanks to an anonymous commenter for the idea. Here’s a clip from the administration’s proposed contract provision for “professional responsibilities”, from the website of their official union matters spokesperson, here. Rudnick explained this as meaning that our administrators (or as she called them, our “colleagues”) did not want the faculty…