Those “special admit” athletes that Helfrich and Altman bring to campus to pay their salaries may be dragging down UO’s SAT scores (~420), but they could sure teach those math nerds at Reed College (~720) a few things about pummeling the faculty with snow. As this RG report explains, two…
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Coltrane is scheduled for a public meeting about the academic plan at 8:30 AM, Friday 2/14, Gehrlinger. From: “President Michael Gottfredson” Subject: Senior vice president and provost announcement Date: February 13, 2014 at 1:27:21 PM PST Reply-To: [email protected] Dear Campus Community, I am pleased to announce that our colleague Scott…
The UO student press has the scoop, here. I’ve raised questions about how the department’s budget ballooned from $3M to $5M in a few years. Frances Dyke, Jamie Moffitt’s predecessor as VPFA, had told UO that guns don’t cost money, guns save money. This awesome investigative story has the answers.
Post meeting synopsis: Agenda here, video in a few days. It was a very well run, productive, and well attended meeting. Nothing brings out UO’s administrators like an attempt to take away athletic subsidies, except a bowl game junket. Lorraine Davis even showed up – perhaps it’s part of her…
So guess which money pile President Gottfredson proposes to use to offset UO’s athletic subsidies? From reporter Ken Goe in the Oregonian, here: Guess how much money Oregon and Oregon State made from the Pac-12 Networks last year. The answer is … none, as in zero. Zilch. Oregon isn’t projecting any revenue…
UO’s VP for Development Mike Andreasen has been dropping the ball on a lot of potential academic donations. As the Register Guard explains here, the Duck fundraisers are picking up his fumbles. The ODE has the story on the latest, here. President Gottfredson will explain this all to the UO…
I’m guessing there are a lot more emails like this going around, please forward them. My response to Kees is below: From: [Business school Dean] Kees de Kluyver Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:09 AM To: LCB Faculty; LCB Staff; LCB OA’s Cc: Scott Coltrane Subject: Important matters on agenda…
From: “President’s Office” <[email protected]> Subject: Bruce MacAllister to join UO as university ombudsperson Date: February 10, 2014 at 2:55:26 PM PST Reply-To: [email protected] Dear Campus Community, I am pleased to announce that Bruce MacAllister will join the University of Oregon as university ombudsperson. MacAllister comes to the university from Santa…
If you’re a coach like Chip Kelly who gets caught promising a “street agent” like Willie Lyles $50,000 to help recruit football players, UO General Counsel Randy Geller will spend $150K on outside lawyers, and then pay the NCAA fine for you. But if you’re a UO faculty member like…
Diane Dietz has a comprehensive report in the RG, here: The businesses that depend on higher education spending may not feel the moderation right away because the University of Oregon, the county’s economic behemoth, is still playing catch up for enrollment growth from half a dozen years ago. The UO…
Ryan Kang has the details and many wonderful and sad photos of fallen trees, in the ODE:
2/5/2014: The Chronicle story is here, and the Delta Cost report here. Our administration has not posted the 2013 data yet, but casual empiricism suggests continued bloat under President Gottfredson, particularly at the higher levels, e.g. RIGE, the General Counsel’s office, “strategic communications”, and his own byzantine org chart. Keep in…
That would be President Steven Leath at Iowa State. From the Des Moines Register: Iowa State University is the only school in the country to increase hiring of full-time faculty and slash staffing in all other areas over the past decade, a new report finds. Between 2004 and 2012, ISU…
UOAlert!: Friday classes and events cancelled February 7th, 2014 UOAlert!: Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 — 9:15 a.m. The University of Oregon has cancelled classes and events for the remainder of the day (until 6 p.m.) The status of evening events will be posted by 3 p.m. From the ODE: