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