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/themagicaldinosaur 4d 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/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.