Early in 2009 the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) agreed to jointly organize all teaching faculty, researchers, librarians, and non-managerial officers of administration at the University of Oregon. We will benefit from the combined expertise of these organizations, being able to enjoy the deeper resources of AFT and the commitment to academic freedom and university experience of AAUP. We will also be able to act in concert with other campuses in the state despite their being split between the two unions in terms of representation.

There are currently 3 full-time organizers helping us with our campaign: Dennis Ziemer, Marlene Drescher, and Yaju Dharmarajah. United Academics of the UO has an office directly across from the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation on 13th Avenue; you can access the office via the stairs just east of the Red Rooster Barber Shop.

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Dave Frohnmayer was hired by OUS to prepare a report on enrollment and retention. Instead, Dave is floating a new funding model for OUS, a model that President Lariviere has been pushing since he arrived on campus. The report was officially delivered to OUS Chancellor Pernsteiner today.

See the full article for a copy of Frohnmayer's memo. In the Additional Resources section you can access the full report.

Oregon State University is proposing furloughs for faculty. The proposal drafted by two Senate committees was discussed at a meeting of the Faculty Senate on 11/12/09 and was voted on and approved at the 11/19/09 Senate meeting. See this article for a copy of the proposal and additional materials, including a letter by the OSU Chapter of the AAUP urging faculty to accept pay cuts only if there was a guarantee that the cuts would save positions.

The Christian Science Monitor ranks the top 25 college football teams according to their expenditures per athlete. UO tops the list at $61,972 per player. The closer contender is Florida at $48,092 per player. How can this be when faculty salaries rank dead last among all AAU institutions? Read the article here.

The AAUP recently released a report entitled Conversion of Appointments to Tenure Track (2009). The report was prepared by a subcommittee of the Committee on Contingent Faculty and the Profession and has been approved by the parent committee for publication for comment. The report make recommendations for hot to convert appointments to tenure track positions and summarizes the efforts that a number of universities have made in this regard. Read the report here.

This page contains important links to forms and pages connected with the PEBB 2010 Plan and supplementary benefits

On Thursday, September 24, an unprecedented coalition of UC faculty, undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, lecturers, and staff will engage in a system-wide walkout.

This article summarizes contract negotiations and salary reductions at the OUS campuses as of 9-22-09.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are encouraged by the decision of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Board of Regents to restore tenure as part of the system’s hiring policy. This decision is a first step in restoring a full-time faculty corps with academic freedom and appropriate due process.

Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer has become affiliated with the law firm of Harrang Long Gary Rudnick. Dave just finished up a 6 week project for OUS that paid him $4725 a week, which equals the state portion of his salary as UO president. He will continue to receive sabbatical pay of $4725 a week until March 31, 2010 and then $4252 a week while on "study leave." Supplemental pay from Harrang Long should help Dave make ends meet.

Temple Association of University Professionals voted 447 to 22 yesterday (9/14/09) to ratify a contract that has something for everyone, but notably, significant gains for the university's ever-increasing number of nontenure-track faculty who constitute 39% of the full-time faculty unit. A summary of contract improvements and other details can be found in this article.

An internal audit has found John Moseley, the former second-in-command at the University of Oregon, broke tax rules on thousands of dollars in travel expenses from Eugene to Bend in the past year. Read the complete Oregonian story by Suzanne Pardington below.