Thanks to a reader for forwarding. Lots of stuff about community and transparency, but no mention of what sort of weaponry they will be armed with: Dear OSU community members, The Department of Public Safety wants you to know that we feel the pain, the outrage and the impact of…
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Voting closes on June 12th. Assuming that their membership approves it, this will mean that the faculty at all of Oregon’s public universities are unionized and operating under a collective bargaining agreement with their administration. Details on the OSU contract are here.
According to a ruling of Oregon’s Employment Relations Board, here. …
That would be OSU’s new President F. King Alexander, reflecting on his successes and failures at LSU, on a piece from the Sambla Sweden blog today: … Another area where Alexander wishes he could have been more effective was convincing the leadership of other SEC institutions to join him in…
Updates: I wonder how much of this the Witt/Kieffer search consultants, Zachary A. Smith, Ph.D., Suzanne Teer and Kim Brettschneider passed on to the OSU Board and hiring committees. In 2018 the UNC system banned its schools from hiring Witt Kieffer for searches, after they failed to do due diligence…
The west coast urban CPI increased 3.1% last year. Mike Gottfredson & his well paid anti-union consultants tried a similar tactic during their effort to fight UO’s faculty union. The accent grave on vis-à-vis is a nice touch though – I wonder how much Ed Ray’s consultant charged for it.…
Members of the Oregon State University community, I am writing to let you know that it is my intention to step down as president of Oregon State University on June 30, 2020, when my current five-year contract will be completed, and after almost 17 years since I had the great…
That would be OSU’s Government Relations Office. Sure it’s only October, and the session is 3 months away, but the early bird gets the worm:
From: “Mills, Jock”
Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] OSU Government Relations Update — Looking to the 2018 Legislative Session and Beyond
Date: October 30, 2017 at 4:41:46 PM PDT
In the Oregonian, here, with a link to his previous investigative reports on the alleged 1998 gang rape by members of the OSU football team: … The Benton County District Attorney’s office and the blossoming enterprise that was the Beavers’ athletic department had a close working relationship, according to Sandrock.…
Story about the hiring of award winning investigative reporter Kate Willson here. A good sign for more transparency about Oregon higher education.
From our Corvallis branch office: Outgoing Senate President Kevin Gable spoke eloquently about the role of Faculty Senate in a shared governance setting. That would be at Oregon State University: http://media.oregonstate.edu/media/OSU+Faculty+Senate+January+9%2C+2014+part+1+of+7/0_tkg0wb61 Nice little profile in the Gazette-Times, as well: http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/osu-faculty-senate-president-kevin-gable-notes-importance-of-shared/article_d7d0d012-7a74-11e3-ba4f-0019bb2963f4.html Then Gable ticks off the pieces of the OSU puzzle in…
6/4/2013: That would be Ed Ray at OSU. Video below. UO President Gottfredson’s attempt to do the same is described here.
5/4/2013: The university has successfully concluded an open national search for a new VP for Finance and Administration. The president reports to the faculty: “Our former VPFA did an exemplary job of helping keeping the university on a sound financial footing in a difficult economic environment and doing so in a…
5/28/2012: Back in November the RG editors criticized President Lariviere for the raises that brought down the Governor’s wrath, noting that fully 40% of the money was going to administrators: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” … The documents list “special equity raises”…
12/14/2011. That would be OSU President Ed Ray. From the Corvallis Gazette Times: OSU will, however, raise its faculty pay by 4 percent starting in January 2012, as a means of keeping good faculty and attracting top-notch new faculty members. The faculty also will receive pay raises in January 2013.…