4/19/2013 parking update: ODE story on faculty union’s unsuccessful efforts to talk with Gottfredson about his bargaining team’s slow pace, here: “It’s important for our representatives to work with theirs, and not to be jumping to different personnel,” Altmann said. “The president signs off on everything that the administration does,…
Posts tagged as “Michael Gottfredson”
“UO Foundation resists compromise to include faculty on proposed independent governing boards”From Saul Hubbard in the RG. They’re using money donated to UO to pay Ginny Lang, the lobbyist who is meeting with legislators to fight against faculty participation. Meanwhile President Gottfredson won’t sign the UO constitution that Rob Kyr…
The official announcement, follow up to the news that VP for University Relations Michael Redding is leaving: To: [email protected]: deans-dirs: Reorganization of UO central administration The following message is forwarded on behalf of President Michael Gottfredson – I am writing to let you know about a planned reorganization within central…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 3/21/2013. Postscript: Prologue: (Comparator gaps by dept here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget here.) You might have thought Michael Gottfredson would have asked Kitzhaber for authority to deal with UO’s faculty pay problem, before he agreed to take the UO president’s…
3/17/2013. VPAA Doug Blandy announces UO’s faculty excellence awards: Subject: deans-dirs: Announcing Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards 2013-14Date: March 15, 2013 4:06:02 PM PDTTo: “Deans-Dirs List ([email protected])” After successfully rebuilding the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards program last year, we are pleased to announce that the nomination period for…
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?…
… and is now going to stick it in our eye.” That’s a colleague’s response to the rumor that Bean’s new assignment will be interfacing with the UO Board, if the NPPB goes through. 3/5/13.
Last summer the Senate IAC started trying to get data on the academic performance of student athletes, and for comparison, regular unathletic students. We were stonewalled. The Dolphin GC Randy Geller took the interesting position that federal law prevented faculty from seeing information on their students. After getting jerked around…
2/20/2013: Congratulations to Nathan Tublitz and the Senate: SPQUO. Stupid and futile gesture works! Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know that James Bean has requested a return to his faculty position at the Lundquist College of Business at the end of this fiscal year. Jim’s more than four…
Dear Colleagues, Our mission is built on the promise that broad access to the highest quality educational and research experiences will reap substantial economic and societal benefits for the entire state. The latest UO economic impact figures illustrate the magnitude of this university’s influence on our local, regional and state…
1/28/2013: When Gottfredson came to UO in August, Diane Dietz of the RG got this promise: In the future, Gottfredson said, his presidential press conferences will be more substantive — and not like White House press briefings, where reporters are reduced to hollering their urgent questions at the president. That’s…
President Gottfredson must have had some bad experiences with leaked emails while he was at Irvine. I don’t know anyone who has yet received a substantive email from him. But he does read email – and apparently he’s a bit sensitive even about that. When I first asked for Randy…
Update: Thompson has posted slightly less embarrassing video and still photos here, presumably in an attempt to document the junket if the IRS starts poking around. 1/3/13: This video is as sad as higher education can possibly get. This event was set up to justify bowl game junkets for our UO administrators, and…
Both came from public records requests for invoices from the same firm, for their work on NCAA infractions: UO’s redactions UT’s redactions Randy Geller has gotten much cockier lately, for Sharon Rudnick’s invoices he redacts everything. Richard Lariviere made a point of saying that the General Counsel’s office was out of…
No, I don’t know who’s invited when, or what they talk about. And I don’t really want to. I’m just happy to hear he’s listening to people outside of his “Executive Leadership Team”. 12/12/12.