– but only if that business doesn’t compete with their coach’s income. Steve Berkowitz has the report in USA Today, here. The Daily Show nailed this 2 years ago: This South Park episode is pretty wicked too.
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The September 10th live-blog is here. Live-video feed here. Noah McGraw’s ODE live-blog is here. Board docket is here. Summary of the Th and Fr board meetings: The good: The board is obviously very happy with President Schill, as they should be. There were no sneak attacks on faculty governance…
Economist Susan Dynarski in the NYT, here: And the data suggests that many popular perceptions of student debt are incorrect. The huge run-up in loans and the subsequent spike in defaults have not been driven by $100,000 debts incurred by students at expensive private colleges like N.Y.U. Some students might…
Great news: The staff that keep UO from sinking into the abyss have negotiated a contract with OUS: Dear Friends, We did it! Because higher ed workers have been standing strong together at campuses around the state, our bargaining team has won a contract settlement that features some of the highest…
This is a work in progress. If you see anything interesting in the meeting material please post a comment. Live-blog for Sept 11th here.
Also see Reporter Noah McGraw’s post on the upcoming meetings in the Daily Emerald, here, and check his live-blog here.
Great news! The trustees are now live-streaming their meetings, here. Now if Kevin Reed will just fix the public records office, I can finally end this damn blog.
Highlights from Sept 10th:
As of 10:30, not much. The Exec committee agreed to tone down their counter-attack on free-speech on cheerleaders.
Slusher talks about Mariota center. Board tries to connect this to research, Slusher doesn’t bite – it’s about applying existing knowledge to winning games.
No serious questions about Hayward field tart-up.
OUS settles with SEIU, and Moffitt presents budget for 2015-16. Turns out she did have the money for faculty raises after all. What a surprise. She’s worried about 2016-17. What a surprise.
1:00PM, full board meeting. They’ve rearranged the room so as to keep the unwashed as far back as possible.
In public comments, students not excited about tuition guarantee idea.
More on how to deal with HECC, faculty hiring plans at bottom.
Page down for schedule and live-blog.
OK, I’ll just say it: Maybe Chuck Lillis and Connie Ballmer were right all along. I’m very happy to say the story below is about the University of Iowa, not about UO. The events challenge some of my beliefs about open searches, maybe they will challenge yours. The gist is that…
Diane Dietz has the very informative story here. As the article explains, the main effect of this is to encourage 4 year graduation, because after 4 years the tuition bumps up by the full amount of the past 4 years of increases. On-time graduation rates are heavily weighted in the US News…
The NYT magazine has a fascinating story about price discrimination, spillover benefits, the returns to college and how to increase completion rates. By Adam Davidson, here: But probably the single most important factor behind the rise in tuition is one that few other businesses share: Students are not just customers;…
Reporter Noah McGraw has an excellent one in the Daily Emerald, here.
Felix Salmon has the story here: The best piece of in-depth investigative reporting you’re likely to read this week comes not from any journalist, but rather from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general. His 55-page report into what went wrong at Cooper Union should be required, and…
Colleen Flaherty has the story in InsideHigherEd, here: Facing what is sure to be a difficult retention season, given this year’s battles over the future of higher education funding and tenure in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is today announcing the results of a massive donation-matching campaign aimed…
9/7/2015: Silly question. He’s paid to be the athletic department’s sacrificial anode. It took the UO Public Records Office a month to provide his resume and the justification for changing the job from Associate VP to VP. They claim they didn’t have to provide his resume, but only did it because he agreed…
What an impressive letter, here. Thanks to the economists at marginalrevolution.com for the link, from a reporter’s FOIA request for her mom’s emails: I love how she puts the important parts in bold. She must know that her parents skim. My dad used to send me letters with footnotes, since he knew how…
RG columnist Don Kahle is no economist, so he usually makes sense. Here’s his modest proposal on what to do about UO’s Duck problem – spin them off as an entertainment LLC. We trust unfettered economics to produce outcomes that are optimized. We want nothing more for our Ducks than optimized outcomes.…
I haven’t had time to dig through all the dockets, links below. If you see anything interesting please post a comment. Executive and Audit Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Finance and Facilities Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Academic and Student Affairs Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Meeting of…