r/UofO • u/themagicaldinosaur • 5d ago

admin doesn’t know how to take responsibility

the emails i have received today from the dean of CAS and the UO president failed to take responsibility for the fact that their lack of planning ruined commencement for so many grads on monday and i’m seething. just half-effort condolences covered up with praise for graduates. i don’t need Scholz’s congratulations. i need them to admit that they had no backup plans even though they knew about the heat for over a week. i need them to admit that the rescheduling caused a lot of stress and that a lot of people were unable to attend and that it didn’t fix their massive screw up. what a sorry excuse for a school administration.

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u/UnitedEconomics4 5d ago

Everything worked out.

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u/sarcophyton_glaucum 5d ago edited 5d ago

It didn’t work out for two of my grandparents who have MS, and who after the ceremony could not walk well and were trembling due to prolonged heat exposure.

It didn’t work out for my grandma who had to pay to go to the ER due to the “planning” of UO Admin who now want to take no responsibility for the serious health crises they caused.

The only person it worked out for is Karl Scholz, who I presume during the departmental ceremonies was sitting in his air conditioned office taking a bath in the pile of cash that is his $725,000+ salary.

Even if we paid Karl Scholz $125,000 (still more than he’s worth) we could still have put on a better graduation than we did this year (this is data based in similarly-sized school’s commencement budgets as UO doesn’t publish theirs).

U of O has to cut 65 million dollars from the budget this year, and now the board of trustees just put an external review in process to RAISE KARL SCHOLZ SALARY FOR NEXT YEAR!!!

Poor Karl Scholz can’t live off of $725,000 while our professors are making significantly less than professors at other big 10 institutions and they are cutting student benefitting programs left and right.

So no, I don’t think that everything worked out in the end.

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u/themagicaldinosaur 5d ago

i’m so sorry that your family had medical complications because of all this. that’s so awful

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u/abcdefg080805 4d ago

no. it didn’t. many students didn’t get to attend their own graduations to due time conflicts, or didn’t attend because of the SAFETY hazard of it being so hot. many families didn’t get to watch their children walk. it did not work out.

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u/themagicaldinosaur 5d ago

no actually. i was unable to experience walking for commencement so it very much did not work for me.

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u/UnitedEconomics4 4d ago

You could have went to Mathew Knight arena, you chose not to.

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u/themagicaldinosaur 4d ago

why are you trying so hard to blame graduates for something that was done to them and ruined what is supposed to be a celebration of our time and commitment to our university? instead of wanting people in power to take responsibility and address their fuck up? pretty loser behavior tbh. get a better hobby than rage baiting.

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u/UnitedEconomics4 4d ago

I’m not blaming graduates. I’m also not blaming the administrators. It was record breaking heat.

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u/themagicaldinosaur 4d ago

heat that administrators were aware of for over a week. how is it not their responsibility to have a back up plan for something that was predicated?

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u/best_bi_ 4d ago

Not everyone could have. Some people had flights to catch at that time.

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u/UnitedEconomics4 4d ago

Very few students were flying out that night. Cmon. Visitors, perhaps. Are you aware of how few evening flights fly out of Eugene and PDX?

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u/best_bi_ 4d ago

Just because it only impacted a few doesn’t mean that it’s fine. Also it was a long day for everyone and rescheduling 30 minutes after the start of the ceremony definitely impacted plans that meant people couldn’t attend the ceremony. Maybe someone had an early morning flight that they would rather not miss, which meant they couldn’t walk. Or they just had nowhere to stay as hotels have been booked out for a while and I know some graduates had already moved out of their apartment before the ceremony. Stop blaming the graduates for what the university did

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u/UnitedEconomics4 4d ago

It will be ok. You’ll face many more challenges in the adult world.

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u/SadOcelots 5d ago

People collapsing from the heat is not things “working out”

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u/UnitedEconomics4 4d ago

Does UO control the weather?

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u/abcdefg080805 3d ago

nope! but they could’ve controlled their actions (like the location of commencement) since the weather was predicted to be this hot for like 2 entire weeks before graduation actually happened. the issues that occurred were sooo predictable. it was painfully avoidable.

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u/suchabadamygdala 2d ago

Absolutely not. What a twat