The Oregon faculty, on the other hand, get edged out by FSU: The UO BOT is currently considering adding another $200K or so to the salary of the next UO President, and bargaining between Coltrane and the UAUO union over faculty salaries starts in late January. Zillow reports the average…
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1/1/2015 junket update: It’s good to see he’s found some honest work as a limo driver. Meanwhile our Chief Strategic Communicator’s team is churning out the traditional “Around the 0” stories on the obligatory charity and student recruiting events: 12/27/2014: Johnson Hall admins take off for semi-final bowl game junkets Last…
12/31/2014 update: The PBS News Hour uses the Frohnmayer family tragedy with Fanconi’s Anemia and the UO/FSU Rose Bowl game as a hook to examine the larger issue of research on rare diseases, here: HARI SREENIVASAN: Dr. Summar, that attention, focus, there are 7,000-plus rare genetic disorders out there. And I’m going to feel a little…
I’ve put together a simple alternative UO homepage with useful UO links and no 160over90 branding crap, here. 12/31/2014 update: We’re on the hook for 4 more years? Wed., Dec. 31, 2014 University of Oregon Kicks Off Branding Push By Kevin McCauley The University of Oregon will use its Jan.…
12/30/2014 update:
Bloomberg reports that Duck football players have $1.38 million in bonuses riding on bowl games, in the Oregonian here. Oh, wait, this is the NCAA, so it’s all for the coaches. About half of that is already due. Plus the Johnson Hall junkets, of course. I wonder where our AD Rob Mullens will get the money? Oh, right …
12/1/2014: Ticket revenue flat, so Ducks hit up students for more ASUO money
Short version: The Ducks have hit price resistance from their regular fans, so they want to raise the fee to student government to $90 per student, to provide “free” tickets.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for the clipping. Apparently the original Free Press front page had the wrong Harbaugh.
In the Oregonian, here, with a link to his previous investigative reports on the alleged 1998 gang rape by members of the OSU football team: … The Benton County District Attorney’s office and the blossoming enterprise that was the Beavers’ athletic department had a close working relationship, according to Sandrock.…
From what I can tell this ghost written Op-Ed is the last official statement from the UO administration on how Johnson Hall handled the basketball rape allegations. There is no sign that there will ever been any kind of investigation, much less one that will be publicly released. Gottfredson’s self-appointed…
12/24/2014: Every year the state of Oregon runs a Charitable Fund Drive for employees. You know the drill. You get a few emails asking you to sign up for payroll deductions to support community groups like the United Way, the local food bank, and so on. This year’s drive is…
Presumably our colleagues in the Johnson Hall administration will still get their free junkets, courtesy of UO’s “general fund”. But it sounds like the UO undergrads whose tuition pays for those Pasadena trips are getting a little restless. Twitter feed here:
We’ve now got two PR machines fighting to get out different messages about UO. On the one hand there’s the “Go Ducks” brand, encouraging students to come to a party school with football-fueled binge drinking. Add to that the basketball rape allegations and the mismanaged administrative cover-up, and we’re really not delivering the…
12/18/2014: And people at UO flip out over a few picketing grad students? Last I heard the status of the $15M endowment payment to the UO Foundation was still up in the air. I can’t imagine $60 oil is going to increase the chances it will happen. 6/18/2014 update: Trouble in…
This kind of money would buy a lot of FMRI scans and hormone assays.
They’ve been hoping that opinions issued by Lane County DA Alex Gardner and Associate DA Patty Perlow would allow them to redact UO documents en masse, instead of having to explain what they were hiding. But the Oregon Court of Appeals has just rejected that Gardner and Perlow interpretation of…
Rumor down at the faculty club snookers table is that Duck athletic director Rob Mullens is entertaining an offer from high roller Gordon Gee, currently president at West Virginia University. It seems unlikely Mullens would seriously consider a step down like that, even if he is an alumnus. But maybe he can…