Gottfredson’s General Counsel’s office hides Rudnick and Frohnmayer’s HLGR bills under “Misc services and supplies”. That $462K does not include the most recent invoices. What’s that $65K under “other professional services”? Hmm, good question. From what I can tell that was in March, as was about $60K of “Misc”. Aprils…
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Voting closes today, you can vote using duckweb. If you want to think first, the list of nominees is on the Senate website, here.
Word from inside JH is that the funds will come from cutting “bowl game junket benefits” for Lorraine Davis, Robin Holmes, Tim Gleason, and of course Randy Geller: Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce our plan to enact new and expanded benefits for unrepresented faculty members and officers of administration, effective…
That would be in Saskatchewan. The Chronicle has the story: Provost told Deans they couldn’t criticize his hare-brained restructuring scheme, a Dean wrote a public letter criticizing it, Provost fired the Dean. Story went public, and now the Dean has his job back and the Provost has “resigned.” Meanwhile, back…
That’s the word from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. And he is offering to use his office’s considerable authority to make them stop hiding. The Student Press Law Center has the story: Department of Education secretary says agency is happy to assist reporters when schools mistakenly cite FERPA Earlier today, Education…
I’m shocked. Insidehighered.com has the report – written by the University of Nebraska’s Faculty Athletics Representative. Meanwhile here at UO President Gottfredson is trying to marginalize that very job.
5/19/2014 update: Exactly how much will UO pay Gottfredson to leave? He can be dismissed for cause, or without cause with 30 days notice. For cause is a lot cheaper, but if he fights it the legal bills, and mutual embarrassment, increase substantially. I’m no economist, but it’s basically a…
From the NY Times: At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington…
That was at Providence College. Very detailed story in the Providence Journal, here. (A VP then weakened the disciplinary board’s decision.) Meanwhile, at UO? The Duck cover-up continues. The day after UO President Mike Gottfredson got the EPD investigation report – 52 days after the alleged assault – he gave…
5/18/2014: No, it’s still not about the one that happened March 8th-9th. But it’s a start:
5/17/2014: On Wednesday President Gottfredson told the UO Senate we were to blame for the delays in fixing the student conduct code, and Margie Paris backed his story.
But Carl Yeh, Gottfredson’s Director of Student Conduct, told UO he was leaving for OSU in August 2013, and he left at the end of the month. The UO administration did not get a new Director until March 31st 2014. Job ad here. The new Director is Sandy Weintraub. The Director is an ex-officio administrative appointment to the Student Conduct Code committee. Sort of hard to hold a productive meeting without a Director, given that he’s the convenor. And at least from the committee’s website, there is no sign that they have met this year. [Update: They met on April 10 and May 1 – they just didn’t announce it, or post an agenda or minutes, yet.]
5/14/2014: The US Civil Rights Office proposed revisions to Student Conduct codes in 2011. But VPSA Robin Holmes dropped the ball. She was too busy going on bowl game junkets, and spending $25K in student money on consultants to manipulate the students into voting to pay for EMU renovation fees.
So this evening Professor John Bonine (Law) went down to the weekly ASUO meeting, and asked the students to get involved in changing their Student Conduct Code to address the sort of sexual violence that happened with the basketball players on March 9th. Here’s the student live-blog report:
Recent UO M daily page-views peaked with Rob Illig (Law) and his “I’m worth $1 Million so tough luck, law students” emails. That was driven by the links to UO M from posts on the ABA website, Gawker, etc. For the latest Duck athletics scandal, page-views come mostly from Twitter…
NBC sports story on Altman here. I’m thinking Dane Altman is blaming Mike Gottfredson, for botching the rape allegation cover-up. And Gottfredson is probably blaming Altman for the fact that *his* career is in ruins. Meanwhile, Lorraine Davis was probably the one who should have vetted Brandon Austin, but for some reason…
5/15/2014: Steve Duin in the Oregonian: When Freyd’s research indicated that 46 percent of the women dealing with unwanted sexual experiences felt betrayed, and further traumatized, by the institution where those incidents occurred, she said, “I felt it was my duty to go to the president and say, ‘We have a problem.'”…
Andrew Greif has the latest in the Oregonian, here. Question #1? Did he let Lorraine Davis approve the Austin special admit? Athletics Chair Rob Illig (Law) President Mike Gottfredson (Criminology)