by leaking their version of how Pres Gay botched her Congressional testimony to the Harvard Crimson. Yes I know the only people at UO who care about this are the Harvard alumni, and the people like me who only got into places like Columbia: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/wilmerhale-testimony-prep/
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Bad news for good government. The Eugene Weekly has been hit by an embezzler, and will have to drastically scale back operations: https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/12/28/wheres-the-damn-paper/ …Shortly before Christmas, we discovered that EW had been the victim of embezzlement at the hands of someone we once trusted. We are still counting up the damage, but…
And the PR flacks too. How long until President Scholz does the same? The WSJ has the story: … Rosário sat down in front of his computer back in June and described the bill he wanted in a sentence. A perfectly-crafted law with eight articles came back, including a clause…
From the NYT: … He told the agents that he had a Ph.D. in economics and marketing and had worked as an economist in Russia a long time ago, according to an F.B.I. affidavit. He said he had not slept in three days and “did not understand what was going…
No disrespect to the Jesus of Lynchburg but if I cared enough to watch I’d go with Uncle Phil on this one – although the Eugene Weekly notes some similarities: Now the Ducks will face the Liberty University Flames in the Fiesta Bowl. Sounds like a mismatch, yes? But consider: Liberty,…
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: In a deal months in the making, the University of Wisconsin System has agreed to “reimagine” its diversity efforts, restructuring dozens of staff into positions serving all students and freezing the total number of diversity positions for the next three years. In exchange, universities would…
The Senate’s Academic Council has not even approved an Academic Continuity Plan yet – unless they’ve done so in secret – but Provost Woodruff-Borden is already encouraging faculty to trade academic rigor for administrative expediency. Full email here. A snippet: Instructors and research groups are strongly encouraged to develop coverage…
The Daily Emerald has the news here: “Thank you for the request, but we’d like to hold off on this one for now. Right now there wouldn’t be much more to say than was covered in the interview a few weeks ago,” Director of Issues Management [sic] Angela Seydel said…
When the UO Board of Trustees took over from the OUS in 2014, UO faculty were on average paid 92.4% of pay at our AAU public university comparators. As of 2021 UO pay had fallen to 84.1%, and it is now declining not only in relative terms, but also in…
From https://apps.ideal-logic.com/files/ver20230925144108/public/4c1250b5f4678c1a_V1C9-239VG/orig/RFQ_for_Brand_Awareness_Study_092523_lkh.pdf General Information: The University of Oregon, on behalf of University Communications (University), is issuing this RFQ seeking a vendor to conduct a follow up study to measure nationwide brand awareness of the University of Oregon and create an overview guide to train communicators broadly on our campus. The focus…
A day off for whatever reason you might want, to celebrate our individual diversity! Good for Atheists to Zoroastrianists. Take your kid to Wildlife Safari on their birthday or drive up to Willamette Pass and genuflect to Ullr, the god of telemark skiing. Too bad this wasn’t announced in time…
From the Guardian – thanks to an anonymous reader for the link: The lawsuit claims the beach volleyball team has to practice in a public park littered with feces and drug paraphernalia. Thirty-two female athletes filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon on Friday that alleges the school is violating Title…
Of course she treated those people who couldn’t help her get a new job somewhat differently. In any case this is great news for UO and I’ll take her unexpectedly speedy departure as a sign Scholz may have a better understanding of UO’s campus climate problems than came across in…
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/11/16/featured-stories/in-focus/in-focus-a-trail-of-athletics-scandals-follows-nu-president-michael-schill/ Open Search Bar Graphic by Shveta Shah In Focus: A trail of athletics scandals follows NU President Michael Schill
Dear colleagues, Recognizing the impact that negotiations with the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) has on faculty, we want to keep you updated on developments in the bargaining process. The bargaining teams met yesterday in mediation and will meet again on November 20, 2023. Reaching agreement on GE salary is…