VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt has already spent all the money that the jocks didn’t get propping up her husband’s law school, but if you really want to suffer through another pointless strategic planning meeting, show up at 9:00 AM Friday in the EMU Walnut Room for coffee and a…
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Is Mr. Gary actually representing Interim President Coltrane, or has he gone rogue? My post and Mr. Gary’s defamation lawsuit threat here. Potential conflict of interest for Mr. Gary’s representation of UO in this matter here. So let’s find out if Bill Gary is really representing Scott Coltrane in this threat to sue…
A report by Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle, here: The former assistant professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor says he had no idea what he was walking into when two administrators there summoned him to a meeting. An email from the two mentioned only concerns about his…
Walth was a Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter at the Oregonian, and more recently an editor at Willamette Week. He’s the author of Fire at Eden’s Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story, a fascinating biography of the former Oregon governor (1967-75), environmentalist, and journalist. My father gave it to me to read when…
As of March 10th. All but $5K was paid by UO’s insurance company. No answers from Dave Hubin’s PR team on the other questions at bottom, but somehow they think this is fully responsive. Here’s the 2011 Miller Nash bid to provide legal services to UO. A long post on…
As might be expected, the Society of American Archivists has compiled a thorough bibliography of news stories about the UO archives release, here. I’m still waiting to see if UO Library Dean Adriene Lim will waive the $210.63 public records fee and show what she and external reviewers had said…
Apparently UO’s alumni donors are not exactly leaping at the chance to give their hard earned money to build fancier offices for the CAS administration. So UO is going to try and hit up the taxpayers. Tran Nguyen has the story in the Emerald, here.
On Interim Provost Bronet’s website, here. I haven’t heard much about Kees since the Songways branding debacle. Petty change in retrospect, compared to 160over90’s boondoggle. There’s also an update about the strategic planning process – but so far as I can see no discussion of budgeting or Brad Shelton’s budget…
The Oregon state bar incorporates model language from the ABA in its “Rules of Professional Conduct“: RULE 1.7 CONFLICT OF INTEREST: CURRENT CLIENTS (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a lawyer shall not represent a client if the representation involves a current conflict of interest. A current conflict of…
Update: UO Matters’s operatives uncover plot by Beaver fanatics to stack Altman’s jury pool with stealth Oregon State supporters: 3/28/2015: The civil trial is estimated to take 10 days. From the docket, here: MINUTES of Proceedings: Rule 16 Conference held. Estimated 10 day Jury Trial is set for 5/16/2016 at…
I know, you think I must be kidding. Of course I’m not talking about Bronet and Coltrane’s AVP for Collaboration Chuck Triplett, whom UO was apparently forced to take off Pernsteiner’s hands as part of the deal for an independent board. UO hired him at $130K – a $58K raise…
3/27/2015: Just kidding. Gleason doesn’t think bloggers are journalists, and while he ran the process he wasn’t a judge. The real award announcement is here.
The post below describes a 2013 panel at the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists with myself and former Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, who has actively worked to make it more difficult for journalists to get public records from UO. The comments to this post are pretty interesting, including an exchange between myself and UO professor of advertising Deb Morrison, who tried to come to Gleason’s defense. Here’s a summary: