UO MATTERS is a new blog written by anonymous faculty members at the University of Oregon, a school that’s gotten more than its share of negative attention on University Diaries.
The pun in the blog’s title points to matters of importance on campus (an overpaid president, too many administrators, a sports obsession, a budget crisis, anti-intellectualism, etc.) and the basic attitude of concern among the blog’s authors — their university matters, and its betrayal of fundamental academic principles is so severe that these people have gone public.
Reasonably public. The university can be vindictive, so they’ve chosen to remain anonymous.
If you take a look at UO MATTERS, you’ll see that at this point it’s still rather an insider’s document, most of it offering specifics about salaries, cutbacks, distribution of funds, and so forth. UD anticipates that this blog will evolve toward a more public voice, since its issues are the same issues all ill-run universities confront.
UD thanks one of its writers for alerting me to UO MATTERS.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:54PM
I think UO Matters is a good resource. I have my own outlet for information about UO here: http://www.youtube.com/luddite333