Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 4/2/2013. (No bargaining Th the 4th). Synopsis: The union put its remaining economic proposals on the table. The administration said it needs to cost them out before responding. The union then asked how much UO was prepared to spend on the raises and…
UO Matters
From “Around the O”: University of Oregon student Edith Gomez will join Gov. John Kitzhaber, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and others Tuesday morning (April 2) when the governor signs into law the state’s so-called tuition equity bill. Gomez, a general science major at the UO, testified in favor of…
The Dalai Lama is coming to UO and will give a talk at the Matt Court basketball arena. Diane Dietz of the Register Guard reports that the tickets, which UO sold for $20 on a first-come first-served basis, with all proceeds to go to charity, are worth considerably more: But…
4/1/2013: From an interesting piece by Brent Walth in the Oregon Quarterly in Fall of 2010: The UO board would have the real power—control over tuition and spending, the power to hire and fire the president, and to OK any major initiative or donor-driven project.Lariviere says a local board could…
4/1/2013: From Sports Illustrated: The case, filed by former UCLA basketball star O’Bannon in 2009 and eventually expanded to include high-profile co-plaintiffs like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell, initially focused solely on the use of former athletes’ likeness in products such as EA Sports’ NCAA video games, for which the…
4/1/2013: President Gottfredson’s public records office is trying to hide the details of the negotiations over the UO Board of Trustees from the public and the press. Dave Hubin sat on this public records request from the Register Guard for more than two weeks before even giving out an estimate.…
4/1/2013: Note that this vote is only about their TTF union. From Carl Straumsheim in Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at Montana State University could next month vote to end a four-year experiment with unionization, stripping the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association of a hard-won chapter at a…
The Senate Interim Committee on Education and Workforce Development, consisting of Chair Senator Mark Hass, Vice-Chair Senator Tim Knopp, Senator Lee Beyer, Senator Jeff Kruse, and Senator Arnie Roblan has approved this amended version of SB270, the independent board legislation. They haven’t voted it out of committee yet, but my guess is that will happen pretty…
I think Kim Jong-Un has it right on the subtleties of the civil rights issues. But the Volokh Conspiracy has some interesting reporting on who gets in to hear the arguments. 3/30/2013.
3/29/2013: OUS’s Oregon Administrative Rule 580 exempts a few things from the normal transparent competitive bidding process for state procurement: (k) Goods or services related to intercollegiate athletic programs.(L) Cadavers or cadaveric organs.…(u) Contracts for professional or expert witnesses or consultants to provide services or testimony relating to existing or potential litigation…
3/30/2013. Comments welcome. Between 2008 and 2013: F and A (indirect) from grants increased from $14.7M to $17.2M, or 17%. The VP for Research Office admin salary budget increased from $450K to $1.14M, or 153%. ORSA’s salary budget increased from $787K to $1.7M or 116%. VP for Research Office administrative…
3/28/2013: The NYT editorializes about the economic foundation of US law firms, the billable hour: For partners, billable hours are a key measure of associate and partner productivity. More is better. The resulting culture pushes everyone harder. Meanwhile, each partner strives to maximize individual client billings that he or she…
3/28/2013 update: SB 822, the Democratic response to the PERS cut proposals from Kitzhaber and the Republicans, has passed out of committee on a 3-2 vote. It is the weakest of the 3 proposals, and, according to the fiscal analysis, even it is enough to completely offset the “30% increase”…
3/28/2013: A column by Wicke Sloane, in Insidehighered, on the SEIU staff union’s research reports on conflicts of interest and administrative bloat at public universities: I commend the 5,000 higher education workers of the Massachusetts Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 615. These men and women, led by Massachusetts SEIU…