Updated: Here’s the list of people on the search committee for the new UO Police Chief: Andre LeDuc, Chair Donna Laue Greg Rikhoff Margaret Paris Mike Eyster Nick McCain Pete Kerns more on this search here. That’s my take from this appropriately skeptical Colton Totland story in the ODE. 2/4/2013. Jamie…
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2/3/2013 update. Former UO President Frohnmayer sends the email below, correcting several points on the post below, and giving his opinion on others. The last email I got from Frohnmayer also vaguely threatened a defamation lawsuit, but he dropped that after the state Audits Division told him he really was under investigation.…
Some great ODE photos here, by Nate Barrett, Michael Arellano, and Mason Trinca. Also – did anyone know UO has a hockey team? And has anyone been paying attention to how badly Paul Westhead is doing as Women’s BB coach? Announced attendance for Friday’s loss to Stanford was 1,812. But like…
2/1/13: I don’t know why, but the search to replace SOJC dean Tim Gleason has failed to produce an acceptable candidate. UO ad here. The search was led by the outside search firm Isaacson Miller – apparently Bob Berdahl’s choice. Next steps presumably include reaching farther down the list or appointing an interim. 1/13/13: Journalism…
That’s the latest from the sham course scandal at UNC. The NCAA Infractions Committee decided it was an academic scandal, not an athletics one, and washed their hands of it. So did an investigation opened at request of the UNC president, and overseen by the Baker Tilly accounting firm. But…
2/1/2013: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education helped the student pursue the case: A federal jury today found former Valdosta State University (VSU) President Ronald M. Zaccari personally liable for $50,000 for violating the due process rights of former student Hayden Barnes in the case of Barnes v. Zaccari.…
Student government has cut $25K from their $150K subsidy of the marching band budget, contingent on Director Dr. Eric Wiltshire getting the money from other sources, presumably the AD. It will be interesting to read about his good faith efforts to do that. Ian Campbell of the ODE has the…
Resources Officer. Associate VP for HR Linda King is retiring. Ad here, with new title: The University of Oregon seeks an innovative and strategic leader for the position of Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Using a search firm for this. King was paid $161K. Looks like her #2, Randy Wardlow, has…
Ad here. Anyone know who’s on this search committee? The inside candidate is Pete Deshpande. Ms Moffitt’s non-explanation of why she suddenly fired Public Safety Director Doug Tripp is here. Tripp apparently has a new job in Florida, which will should save us $90K or so on the year’s severance pay. And…
That would be the Governor of Connecticut, talking about UConn and, mostly, STEM. Not clear but the financing seems to involve bond sales, a la Richard Lariviere: Increase faculty in science, technology and engineering by 258 at the three campuses, in addition to 290 new faculty the university is in…
The NYT has an excellent story with plenty of explanations, consequences, and proposed reform proposals. I don’t know how this is affecting the UO Law School. 1/31/2013.
A third of Oregon’s HS students do not graduate on time. Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian has the latest data: Oregon high schools’ on-time graduation rate remained mired at 68 percent for the class of 2012, the same as the year before, when Oregon ranked fourth worst in the nation.…
Hannah Hoffman of the SJ has a good explanation of how future reductions in payouts from a COLA cap will save the state $400 million a year immediately. From what I can tell this will also mean a large immediate decrease in what the state pays for people in the…
The lottery subsidies to the athletics department are for 2009-2011, a holdover from some long-forgotten failed scheme to allow lottery gambling on college football games. Kitzhaber’s budget takes the money away from OUS and gives it to educational purposes: More from the remarkably transparent, and appropriately garish Oregon Lottery site, here:…
Early days on this, but it certainly seems to threaten the current business model for big-time college sports, where all the profits go to the coach and athletic director – and where university administrators can charge off hundreds of thousands of dollars in bowl game junket expenses, while it’s an…