5/19/2015 update: Ed Russo has the story in the RG, here: In a shock to Eugene’s civic leaders, the University of Oregon Foundation has dropped out as master developer for the Eugene Water & Electric Board riverfront property. A foundation board on Monday unanimously instructed foundation staff to stop pursuing acquisition…
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on what the NY Times calls “Oregon’s Jock Box”. RG photographer Chris Pietsch catches him in the act, here. Does this mean that the big donation is coming soon? Will it just be for Hayward field and other 2021 Track Championship construction, or will new President Michael Schill insist that Knight…
I’m trying to compile a list of UO’s academic and athletic donors – work in progress, these are mostly guesses, please post corrections in the comments. ACADEMICS: Lorry Lokey: See below for a long list. Total = $140M. Phil Knight: ~$10M towards $27M Knight Library renovation,~$15M towards $36M Knight Law School, ~$30M…
5/16/2015 update: Two new stories to add to the three printed Saturday in the Register Guard about UO’s branding efforts. These are all online now, new ones in print Sunday. I’ve posted extracts with a few comments for all five stories below. Follow the links to the stories, and please…
That would be Bob Keefer of Eugene Art Talk, here. His amputated foot post is here. Shop online here.
Interesting article in InsideHigherEd, here.
The letters are nominally from Scott Coltrane, but the metadata says they were written by AVP for Collaboration Chuck Triplett, complete with some interesting grammatical errors. I’ll post more on these in the next few days. From the president.uoregon.edu website: Presidential responses to Senate actions Interim President Scott Coltrane issued the following responses…
Cocktail party version of today’s Senate meeting: Old president Scott Coltrane said no, no, no, no, no, to the Senate legislation on sexual violence prevention and athletics. New President Michael Schill talked to the Senate and answered questions for a good 30 minutes, and didn’t say “Go Ducks” once. He’d been misinformed about…
In the RG here. I think it makes more sense to judge these presidents by what they do than by what they say, but this statement about the AAU has some people worried: Schill said it’s not fruitful for the UO to worry about whether it will be asked to…
An out of control athletic department that is not the Ducks? Joe Nocera has the report in the NYT. Tyler Kingkade has the $65.5M news from LSU: LSU Faces Dramatic Budget Cuts While It Builds An Expensive Lounging Pool. And you thought Robin Holmes was out of control? Thanks to my vigilant and ever-optimistic readers…
Plenty of money for the Duck football coaches though:
This Thursday, Room 142 in the Law School. From “Around the 0”: Brenda Tracy, an emerging national speaker on campus sexual assault, will give a talk on the UO campus this Thursday, May 14. Sponsored by the UO Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, the event takes place at 3:30 p.m. in…
Finally. This will save UO a lot of money: From: James Bean Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 1:00 PM To: LCB Faculty; LCB Staff Subject: New Adventures Colleagues: I have accepted an offer to become provost of Northeastern University in Boston beginning July 1, 2015. Northeastern presents a great opportunity…
UO Matters’ operatives have obtained a secret video of Doug Park and the Johnson Hall Executive Leadership Team briefing Schill on the current UO situation, here. Around the 0 has the rest of the story: Incoming UO President Michael Schill will return to campus this week for the first of a couple…