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Coltrane at AAU meetings

Presumably one of the agenda items will be the AAU’s efforts to develop a profitable “Campus Climate Survey” to compete with Jennifer Freyd’s free open-source alternative. The AAU has a pretty bloated administrative structure, paying both their current president (Hunter Rawlings) and what looks like an extra year’s salary to their past president (Bob Berdahl):

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So it’s no wonder they’re not willing to give this a creative commons license or open source it like Freyd did. Their RFP for the Campus Climate survey is here: Looks like the AAU intends to keep the intellectual property for themselves instead of putting it in the public domain, and presumably they’ll charge non-AAU schools for using it:

All intellectual property developed related to and as a result of this project shall be retained and solely owned by AAU, with participating universities retaining ownership and control (including use for further research and/or publication) of the individual institutional data. The AAU retains the right, at its sole discretion, to utilize a different platform and/or vendor in future administrations of the survey.

President’s Schedule:

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19

Washington, D.C.

Association of American Universities membership meetings

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20

Association of American Universities membership meetings continue

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21

Interview with Chronicle of Higher Education

Travelling to Eugene

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

11:00 a.m. — Meeting with acting Provost Frances Bronet and University Senate President Rob Kyr

Noon — Eugene Education Foundation lunch
Interim President Coltrane attends a lunch event in support of EEF, an organization that supports many programs in 4J including college readiness and new approaches to enhance student engagement and success.

2:00 p.m. — Budget and Finance regular meeting

3:00 p.m. — University Senate meeting
Interim President Coltrane attends the meeting of the senate and shares more on the strategic initiatives planning based on goals for achieving competitive excellence.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

Travelling

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

Meetings with external partners

7:00 p.m. — Football
Oregon vs. California

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