11/2/2011: This is a weird one. I just got the email saying: The special election for the Promotion Tenure-Retention Appeals Committee (PTRAC) and the Faculty Grievance Appeals Committee (FGAC) has begun. To cast your vote, please log on to DuckWeb and click on the 2011 Faculty/Staff Election tab: https://duckweb.uoregon.edu/pls/prod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin When…
Posts tagged as “Governance”
5/27/2011: From his last speech as Senate Pres: We are hanging on to our top tier research classification by the thinnest of hairs. … The status of our instructional mission is also tenuous. We have increased the number of students from 17,000 to 24,500 in the past 15 years, a…
4/15/2011 update: The standard way around the confidentiality issues is to hire a trusted independent firm to collect the data and interview employees. In 2009 VP Frances Dyke did hire such a firm, Stan McKnight and Associates – but she hired them to do some union busting for the AAUP/AFT…
4/12/2011: Good call: From: “Nathan Tublitz” Date: April 12, 2011 6:17:48 PM PDTTo: [email protected]: president Lariviere , [email protected]: senate10_11: US10/11-10 New Partnership motion withdrawnReply-To: [email protected] Dear Senators, President Lariviere and Provost Bean: I write to let you know that the Senate Executive Committee, sponsor of US10/11-10 Motion to endorse the…
3/25/2011: “It’s shared governance, Professor. If you can keep it.” Time for committee and Senate nominations. Effectively this means you nominate yourself on this form no later than Tu, April 5. Some are appointed, some elected. Here’s an explanation of the assignments. Some of these committees are sort of fun,…
3/7/2011: From Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik at Insidehighered.com. Apparently this is a trend: Other signs are also apparent in the survey results of a growing distance between faculty members and presidents. Asked which groups of campus constituents have been most helpful in confronting the economic challenges of the last…
12/22/2010: That would be the new President of UVa. Jack Stripling of Insidehighered.com has an interesting article on her efforts to involve faculty in financial decision-making: The 13-member crew, whose membership is weighted toward those with some business or finance acumen, is charged to serve as an informal advisory group…
4:00-5:30pm, 150 Columbia The purpose of the meeting is to consider a motion to approve the revised internal governance document necessitated by a Department of Justice opinion dated 11/7/08 concerning the structure of shared governance at the University of Oregon. The agenda for the meeting and the text of the…
5/11/2010: Uh, thanks, I guess.
1/25/2010: From an Op-Ed in the Oregonian, from 2 higher ed union leaders: To achieve these goals the university system will have to participate in an honest and open dialogue involving all committed and relevant participants to meet our commitment to the students of today and tomorrow. What we don’t…
1/14/2010 Update: It seems that the normal procedure from Robert’s Rules of Order applies, meaning that VP Nathan Tublitz is now Senate President. 1/13/2010: I don’t know all the backstory, and I wish Peter the best, but this is very good news for faculty governance. From: Peter Gilkey [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Wednesday,…
Update: The Senate passed a revised version of motion 12a on a unanimous voice vote today. Frank diplomatically withdrew motion 12b, allowing the admin to maintain the cherished fiction that their efforts to hide tenure decisions had nothing to do with VP Martinez. 1/13/2010: Frank’s Senate motions are needed to…
11/11/2009: We reported earlier on Provost Bean’s refusal to tell the FPC committee chair who had been given tenure or see the letters he wrote justifying his decisions. We assumed that Bean’s unprecedented attempt to keep information on who had been given tenure from falling into the hands of UO’s…
10/29/2009: Curious about who got tenure or was promoted to full professor at UO last year? So are the members of the UO’s Faculty Personnel Committee. According to their official report,That’s right, Provost Bean refuses to say who has been given tenure and promoted. He won’t even tell the faculty…
10/8/2009: We’ve heard that Provost Bean has decided to reduce the weight given to research and teaching and boost the importance of administrative service in considering promotions to full professor. Another rumor is that Diversity VP Charles Martinez – given tenure last year – will be promoted to full professor…