Higher education is a competitive business. And as this article reports, UO simply is not keeping up. We need to hire a search firm, get a VP quick, gut the basement of Johnson Hall, and start installing the proper equipment without further delays. Perhaps an alumnus would be a good…
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Update: Rachel Bachman has more on the why. Predicts Jamie Moffitt will get promoted. 7/21/2011: From Adam Jude in the RG. Ms Baumgartner was Kilkenny’s hatchet woman when it came to cutting wrestling, she’s now giving up her $156,814 job at UO for Syracuse. My guess is that AD Rob…
Update 7/21/2011: Nesbitt has not been a big fan of the New Partnership. From his Oregonian Op-Ed in March: So if I were calling political plays for UO, I’d give up on any strategy that requires state borrowing and signal the coaches to do the following: Go for two. Offer…
7/21/2011: UO General Counsel Randy Geller has been trying to find an Associate/Assistant GC for a year now. No takers. He’s getting desperate with this latest job posting from today: The Office of the General Counsel is a fast-paced, high volume work place. Its attorneys must be able to handle…
7/20/2011: When UO President Dave Frohnmayer retired he negotiated a very sweet retirement deal with OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner. Too sweet. A week after someone raised questions about the unusual salary Frohnmayer received last summer – no work expectations and 3 retroactive contracts – Frohnmayer had to write UO out…
In terms of what UO can contribute, long-run, to Oregon’s economic growth, bringing smart ambitious undergrads from other countries with growing economies (and from other parts of the US) to Oregon is surely #1 on the list. Plus we get their out-of-state tuition and the diversity spillover for our Oregon…
7/19/2011: The usual stuff. But with sports: The coach said Salinas told him he would direct players from his summer league squad to the coach’s university if the coach would invest $100,000 with him. … ” A good guy — there’s no doubt about that – and he helped a…
7/18/2011: And I ain’t talking about the carpets in PLC. Contract and invoices here. $8,359.12 last month, including a trip to Eugene – looks like a last minute airfare purchase. UO GC Randy Geller contracted with these guys for $150,000 – and he is now trying to charge the faculty…
7/17/2011: Maybe the UO staff won’t need to strike at the start of fall quarter. From Dennis Thompson in the Statesman Journal: Kitzhaber has demanded that state employees pay 5 percent of their health care premiums as part of the new contract for the 2011-13 biennium. The unions appear to…
7/17/2011: “This is simply unacceptable”. From a post on his Presidential blog. Oh wait, he’s talking about the athletes: Athletes must maintain standards of behavior The University of Oregon has clear expectations of how its student athletes are to behave both on and off the field of play. Lately, several…
7/17/2011: OUS meetings usually consist of George Pernsteiner and the Board chair (was Paul Kelly, soon Matt Donegan) telling UO how much money they are going to take from us for “overhead“. This 7/21/2011 governance meeting looks slightly more interesting. The docket is a review of how other states handle…
7/16/2011: SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 200 active-duty troops and veterans wearing T-shirts advertising their branch of service marched Saturday in San Diego’s gay pride parade with American flags and rainbow banners, marking what is believed to be the first time a military contingent has participated in such an event…
7/16/2011: From the NYT, by David Segal. Worth one of your twenty. Along with stuff like this: “In these materials and in our conversations with students and applicants,” he wrote, “we explicitly tell them that most graduates find work in small to medium firms at salaries between $35,000 and $75,000.”…
7/16/2010: As part of it’s efforts to prevent “street agents” from sneaking off with any of the NCAA’s money the NCAA slapped a bunch of anti-competitive rules on recruiting services last year: Steve Andress of KEZI explains: NCAA Bylaw 13.14.3 lays out the rules for contracting a recruiting service. The…
7/15/2011: More docs on the way on Pernsteiner’s croissant expenditures, Treetops, and the OUS board. Probably next week. Vice Chancellor Jay Kenton is looking into the question of whether or not to let Pernsteiner keep his dual housing allowances, maid, etc. My guess is this will be a long process…