7/20/2013 update: Are UO’s new armed police more likely to save lives or cost lives – by accident, “suicide by cop” or over-response? One of DPS’s previous directors was hired by former UO VPFA Frances Dyke, after a bungled attempt to stop underaged drinking at football games at his previous…
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7/20/2013: Brent Hunsberger writes an excellent personal finance column for the Oregonian. His take on the impact of the SB 822 PERS COLA cuts is here.7/3/2013: That was quick. From the law offices of BENNETT HARTMAN MORRIS & KAPLAN, full pdf here. For someone retiring with a $60K per year…
7/19/2013: Mark Johnson of the RG sports desk gets another dump of Kelly/Lyles docs from UO – 3 months after he made the public records request. UO NCAA Rep and former law professor Jim O’Fallon used to argue that these sorts of records were top secret, despite the DOJ ruling below,…
7/19/2013: And more from Lariviere, on the need for additional faculty raises – written *after* he implemented the equity raises that helped get him fired: Frankly, the single most important action the UO could take to ensure its long-term success is to finish the faculty salary equity project during FY12…
7/19/2013: Clearly state your assumptions and provide appropriate figures and explanations: 1) From the NYT today: Should the bankrupt city of Detroit sell its $2 billion art collection to help pay its $18 billion in debt? 2) From the NYT yesterday: A Romanian mother burned ~$250 million worth of stolen impressionist…
7/19/2013: UO is under-administrated? Our academic accreditors, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, require that 2.A.11 The institution employs a sufficient number of qualified administrators who provide effective leadership and management for the institution’s major support and operational functions and work collaboratively across institutional functions and units to foster fulfillment of the…
7/18/2013: No, of course this is not from Journalism Dean Tim Gleason at UO, he’s busy thinking up reasons to hide public records from UO’s student journalists. It’s from the storied University of Missouri School of Journalism. I’d suggest you donate, but 2 days into it they’re already well over their…
7/18/2013: I asked a few of the legislators who voted against SB 270 if they would send a statement explaining the reasons for their vote, to post on UO Matters. Here are the replies I received. Comments welcome: Senator Floyd Prozanski (Eugene): As much as I support individual governing boards,…
7/18/2013: SB 270 gives Kitzhaber a month to appoint the UO Board Trustees. They don’t have any real authority until 7/1/2014, but for better or worse their names will be indelibly associated with the faculty union bargaining agreement, the lack of transparency in JH, and other big UO announcements such…
7/17/2013: The economic news for UO couldn’t be better. UO got all its expected state funding, the tuition increase, and permission to let Moffitt keep accumulating reserves above the normal 15% ceiling. She’s up to 17% now, OSU has something like 8%. The legislature even kicked in more money to…
7/17/2013: Jeff Wright has the story in the RG. 6 hours a day practice time. I always feel for these guys, must be tough getting in study time too, and he’s an econ major. But at least they get paid well for their work. Oh wait, this is for playing…
Galvan confirmed as permanent Ambassador to Gabon, Freinkel as VP for UGS. Nothing yet on HC Dean. 7-17-13 Interim Provost’s Message July 17, 2013 • PROVOST’S WEBSITE • FORWARD THIS EMAIL Scott Coltrane Colleagues, As I step into my new role as Interim Senior Vice President and Provost, I am delighted to announce…
7/16/2013: Nigel Jaquiss and Alex Blum have the scoop in WWeek, based on public records requests, including Crew’s official calendar: Records obtained by WW under the state’s public records law suggest the governor and the Oregon Education Investment Board left Crew unsupervised in his high-profile job. He spent much of…
7/16/2013: From Teri Figueroa in the San Diego UT: A former Cal State San Marcos student who rigged a campus election by stealing nearly 750 student passwords to cast votes for himself and friends was sentenced Monday in federal court to a year in prison…. On Weaver’s computer, authorities found…
7/15/2013: Which is worse? Jim Bean’s $200K sabbatical and the $320K administrative sinecure President Gottfredson gave him to write the bylaws for the UO Trustees, or the latest General Petraeus scandal over a $200K teaching gig at CUNY, reported in the NY Times here?