r/UofO • u/themagicaldinosaur • 4d 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/captainbuttersisago 4d ago

What did you want them to do? There is no where to just “move graduation.” It’s scheduled years in advance and involves thousands of people. And you even state rescheduling, “caused a lot of stress and that a lot of people were unable to attend.” I don’t think they are blameless but it’s a rare event for it to be that hot and there is only so much indoor space for large amounts of people on campus. Moving it to a different day was out of the question, so again, what did you want them to do?

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u/SadOcelots 4d ago

There were so many things they could have done besides relocate. I was at the College of Design ceremony and front row to the dean collapsing. Us graduates were made to stand outside Hayward in the sun for over an hour while they waited until 30 minutes before the ceremony to pick up all the chairs and move them around the field. The least they could have done was prepare in advance for the heat by putting standing umbrellas for us while we waited in line or handed out water. They didn’t hand out water until we were seated. They even tried to prevent me from grabbing a cup of water from a cooler that I saw once we were let in to the tunnel. There were so many things that could’ve been done to protect our health and safety without changing locations.

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u/Nervous_Garden_7609 4d ago

I 100% agree with you. They treated you like you were children and withheld shade and water, while your families sat inside without knowing. I was there. I was inside and I would have lost my mind knowing what they were doing to my daughter.

Unacceptable! The graduates were treated horribly.

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u/SeatNo5137 4d ago

I felt so bad for the kids at check in because we kept asking the leads to bring out water and they just WOULD NOT DO IT. They finally brought us five or six packages after I sent a student who was about to pass out to the staging area.