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UO Trustees hold emergency meeting to double Coach Horton’s pay

Just kidding, that was for Athletic Director Rob Mullens and football coach Matt Helfrich. There’s no evidence Chuck Lillis is going to fall for Rob’s shit again. They’ll give the money to some new baseball coach: 3/1/2015: In February the UO Board of Trustees gave big raises to Duck AD Rob Mullens and…

Secretive UO Foundation releases stale, minimally required IRS data

Update: Court rules university foundations subject to state public records law

That would be in Illinois. The Student Press Law Association has the news here. An increasing number of state AG’s, courts, and laws now require the same – but not Oregon.

5/16/2017: They are just now releasing data from the FY that ended June 30, 2016. Donations fell from $136M to $103M. CEO Paul Weinhold’s compensation increased from $417K to $444K, overall compensation for the top 5 “key employees” has increased by about 30%. (The individual pay reported in the full 990 below is for the calendar year 2014-15, while the overall number is for the 2015-16 FY – meaning that Weinhold’s pay is probably actually up 30% or so over last year. )

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They report spending only $10K on lobbying (presumably for the IAAF) and lump academic and non-academic (sports) expenditures together.

President Schill’s office is telling the Emerald they do not have records on expenditures of foundation funds by his office:

The full IRS 990 for 2015-16 is here: http://www.uofoundation.org/s/1540/images/editor_documents/form_990/university_of_oregon_foundation_2015_990_public_disclosure_copy_website.pdf

For comparison, the 2014-15 990 is here: https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/uof_2014_public_disclosure_copy_combined_website.pdf

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Dysfunctional HECC now wants UO & PSU to beg for tuition increases

Update: OPB’s Rob Manning reports on the latest from the HECC, here: … HECC commissioners were critical of the large universities, suggesting they had not done enough outreach to affected groups, like students. One commissioner also suggested that by rejecting tuition hikes it would send a message to state lawmakers that more funding is…

Professor resigns after discipline threat for criticizing diversity training

In the Chronicle here: … The emails leaked to The American Conservative document a conflict that began in February, when Mr. Griffiths responded to a colleague’s email urging Divinity School faculty members to participate in voluntary diversity training with his own email urging them to skip it as a waste of…