UO Law School Dustup Settles With Pay Raise

University of Oregon Law School professors will get their merit raises after the university struck down a proposal by some faculty members to divert the money to a post-graduate scholarship fund.

The decision to forgo raises, made during a faculty meeting last week, surprised and angered one law professor who wrote Law School Dean Michael Moffitt on Monday.

"I just learned – three days after the faculty meeting – that someone (you? the faculty?) is trying to take away my one-in-a-decade chance at a raise," UO law professor Rob Illig wrote.

Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh ran an account of the controversy on his blog, UO Matters.

Here's an email from Illig expressing his frustration:

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