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UO runner Ben DeJarnette on student animosity toward student-athletes

10/23/2011: An Op-Ed in the RG. DeJarnette is a journalism major, a scholarship athlete on the track team, and a member of UO’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. He argues there are some legitimate concerns, but also some intransigent stereotypes which he attempts to clear up: I recently witnessed two classmates roaring…

RG on UO hiring: 26% more students, 9% more faculty, 36% more administrators.

10/23/2011: Very interesting RG story by Greg Bolt, on UO’s role in Lane County employment: Employment at the UO has grown across the board, with increases seen in nearly every job category. The university has more teachers, professors, administrators, clerical staff, laborers and technicians today than it did before the…

UO Foundation cuts scholarships $1.4 million, increases administrative spending $2.0 million.

10/22/2011: The UO Foundation’s job is managing funds from UO donors, investing the UO endowment, and disbursing the funds to UO for scholarships, etc. They’ve just released their 31 page annual report, here. I’m no accounting professor, but people have earned tenure showing the correlation between glossy pictures in annual…

NYT on embarassing university public records

10/20/2011: From Tamar Lewin in today’s times, story here: “This case presents the increasingly familiar tale of a public university that, embarrassed by its own wrongdoing, cries ‘student privacy’ in an attempt to frustrate public disclosure of information reflecting unflatteringly on the conduct of the university’s administrators,” the brief said.…

Scholarships: $6 million for academics, $9 million for athletics

10/20/2011: Institutional Research reports that last year the UO Foundation spent ~$6 million on Academic, merit, and need scholarships. Puts that $3.2 million overhead subsidy for athletics into perspective. Oh yeah, the Foundation spent almost $9 million on athletic scholarships. And of course the athletic department spent $2 million of…

athletics subsidies

10/19/2011: I’m still getting the runaround on how the athletic department’s overhead assessment got cut from 8% to 3%. Jamie Moffitt, Frances Dyke, Brad Shelton, and Laura Hubbard are all claiming they have no documentation on what was supposed to be an “Auditable” process. Actually, Moffitt is being a little…

Provost Open Forum

Sorry for the late posting: To: UO Deans and Directors From:    Robert Kyr                President, University Senate Re: First Provost’s ForumThis Wednesday, October 19, 20114:00-6:00 pm, Beall Concert HallUniversity of Oregon School of Music & Dance  (Please see the map attached.) As President as the University Senate, I am writing to…