3/10/2011: Dave Frohnmayer, that is. Here’s his contract with Nike’s Howard Slusher, requiring UO to provide athlete only parking, in return for them taking the Jock Box land from us for $1. On top of this students pay $2 million a year to run it. Phil Knight’s deal with UO…
Posts published by “uomatters”
3/10/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian has a story on Ethics Point. They contract to state agencies, including OUS, to allow employees to make anonymous reports about financial improprieties. I’ve used this with mixed success. The reports are forwarded to OUS auditor Pat Snopkowski, but she often sits on them…
3/10/2011: That’s progress. The tuition cap helped. They are still very suspicious of Lariviere. But their reporters have to deal with Liz Denecke and a press office that limits who will talk to them about what, so no wonder.
3/9/2011: This Colton Totland story in the ODE was news to me: For the first time in state history, a handful of concerned Oregon state representatives are sponsoring two bills aimed at limiting campaign contributions. Last year, Oregon spent more per person on political campaigns than any other state except…
3/9/2011: The ASUO Senate did not come up with the 2/3 vote margin to defeat the veto by Amelie Rousseau of a budget w/o OSPIRG funding. As I understand it they will now try and renegotiate their subsidies to the athletic department and LTD to come up with the OSPIRG…
3/9/2011: Comments are heavily in favor of the surplus office and some obscure but important sounding A/R thing. Also support for a dedicated staff training room. Makes sense. Then for video conferencing for central admin – doesn’t everyone use skype for that? Here’s one on the Diversity police academy idea:…
3/8/2011: The RG has an editorial that reads like a wake for the New Partnership plan: President Richard Lariviere’s proposal to fund the University of Oregon’s operations with a public-private endowment is going nowhere in Salem, even after he offered to include a cap on tuition increases as part of…
3/8/2011: I’ve been trying to figure out Chancellor Pernsteiner’s OUS contract. Not the $70K a year Treetops mansion and additional $26K housing allowance – that’s just stupidity and greed, respectively. But what about the $23,320 for “Professional expenses”? Is it possible this is for tuition payments, so he can finally…
3/7/2011: This will apparently hit the papers tomorrow.
3/7/2011: I’m guessing Liz Denecke and UO’s $250,000 a year public records office – paid for by the academic side – is going to be busy.
3/7/2011: Two significant things have been happening in student government. First despite a lot of pressure, and support from ASUO Pres Amelie Rousseau, they have refused to resume funding for OSPIRG. This has been a student government fight for years. The basic argument is that it sent too much money…
3/7/2011: From Doug Lederman and Scott Jaschik at Insidehighered.com. Apparently this is a trend: Other signs are also apparent in the survey results of a growing distance between faculty members and presidents. Asked which groups of campus constituents have been most helpful in confronting the economic challenges of the last…
3/7/2011: This Insidehighered.com survey of the literature finds the only noticeable impact is on adjuncts – it’s large – and at 2-year colleges.
3/8/2011 update: Richard Read of the Oregonian gets some amazing quotes on this, from the PSU CI head. 3/6/2011: The London School of Economics has thoroughly embarrassed itself with its ties to the Gaddafi regime. The world now knows you can buy an LSE PhD and whatever that brings in…
3/6/2011: The only regular professor on the search committee for the Frances Dyke replacement is Phil Romero. Phil was the B-school dean before Jim Bean, left for a job at CSU – Los Angeles, but is now apparently back teaching business classes at UO. There is no one else among…