UO Matters

Whatever you think of this decision, kudos to him for taking responsibility for it. Pres Schill would have made some VP take the blame: Dear University of Oregon community, The last nine days hav...

https://uomatters.com/2024/05/pres-scholz-to-discipline-campers.html

Actually, he got VP Kris Winter to do his dirty work with this email to students: … In short, no student should be encouraged or compelled by UO employees to be exposed to the protest or encamp...

https://uomatters.com/2024/05/pres-scholz-asks-students-to-narc-on-faculty-who-try-and-use-their-academic-freedom.html

Stephanie Hensley in the ODE: For professors at the University of Oregon, salaries are notably lower than those of their peers at other universities. The average annual salary of a full professor...

https://uomatters.com/2024/05/daily-emerald-faculty-pay-is-dismal-top-admins-doing-just-fine.html

Did we forget to teach our students about how Nixon got re-elected in 1972? https://www.kezi.com/news/local/pro-palestinian-protest-encampment-at-the-university-of-oregon-nearly-triples-in-size/a...

https://uomatters.com/2024/05/how-to-help-trumps-re-election-without-saying-youre-helping-trumps-re-election.html

Dear University of Oregon community, We are living through an extraordinary moment in which people at universities across the nation—including on our own campus—are expressing their passionat...

https://uomatters.com/2024/05/pres-scholz-on-gaza-protests-boycotts-divestment-free-speech-disruptions.html

Thanks to a regular reader for the link: Announcing Ian F. McNeely as the College’s next senior associate dean for undergraduate education  

https://uomatters.com/2024/04/ian-mcneely-to-leave-uo-for-unc.html

What I learned in bargaining today, on zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254557403?pwd=Nkh2L1ptaDhpRmlvdWNaaXYxaHcxQT09 In response to this news from Keaton Miller (Econ) your union has lowered...

https://uomatters.com/2024/04/uos-top-administrators-pay-themselves-99-4-of-comparators-pay-the-faculty-86.html

Dear University of Oregon community, I am thrilled to announce that Christopher P. Long, dean of the College of Arts & Letters and the Honors College at Michigan State University (MSU) and profes...

https://uomatters.com/2024/04/catalyzing-new-provost-will-propel-university-forward-guided-by-new-strategic-plan.html

I’m no astronomer, but in my family’s “faith tradition” we were taught that this annual increase in light was caused not by hope, but by the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation relativ...

https://uomatters.com/2024/04/deis-message-of-springtime-light-hope-excludes-atheists-pagans-and-entire-southern-hemisphere.html

Email from the UAUO Union: United Academics is back at the bargaining table this week, Thursday April 4, from 12:30-3:30 in Chiles 125. Come out and support your bargaining team! The administrati...

https://uomatters.com/2024/04/admin-team-to-try-and-explain-pres-scholzs-real-pay-cut-proposal-to-union-thursday-at-1230.html