And he keeps the two houses, maid service, croissants etc: I’m sure there’s plenty more scandal in these OUS board minutes. And they’ve got another meeting coming up on Friday. One agenda item? Approve Robin Holmes’s EMU renovations. Another? A new code of ethics. You can’t make this shit up. 1/9/2013
UO Matters
Friday at 12. Kitzhaber’s hire as education czar. He can’t be as bad as Pernsteiner, right?
1/7/2013: If you believe the WSJ on these things, de Kluyver’s decision to increase UO’s MBA tuition by 50% may not have been totally prescient. 9/4/2012: Diane Dietz of the RG has a comprehensive story on UO’s MBA programs, with many interesting quotes from LCB Dean Kees de Kluyver, here: They [University…
Internet chatter has it he’s a finalist for the president’s job at a midwestern engineering college. Div III, so it seems like a good outcome for all concerned. 1/7/13.
Room 450 Lillis. I plan to live-blog. 1/7/13.
RG editors call for UO to follow state law on search for new football coach: Turns out that promoting Helfrich without interviewing a qualified minority candidate — or at least making a good-faith attempt to find such a candidate — would violate Oregon law. Three years ago, the Oregon Legislature…
From the official organ of the Communist Party of China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-12/31/c_132074418.htm BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Former NBA player Marcus Williams has been tested positive for marijuana to record the first doping case in China’s professional basketball league, the national basketball governing body announced on Monday.Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) said in…
Update: Thompson has posted slightly less embarrassing video and still photos here, presumably in an attempt to document the junket if the IRS starts poking around. 1/3/13: This video is as sad as higher education can possibly get. This event was set up to justify bowl game junkets for our UO administrators, and…
The latest rumors, from the faculty club hookah room: UO is now on an unofficial AAU watch list for underperformance – not enough federal grants or grad students. Johnson Hall is going to try and hang our expulsion on the faculty, or the union, or the weather, but we all…
We’re the 4th highest of 72 public “high research category” universities in the percentage of total spending that goes to administration. See the data here, story here. “Administrative spending includes management of the university including human resources, legal, financial, purchasing and marketing operations, among others.” UO spends 12% on this, the median university…
Emily Schiola and Dashiell Paulson have the story in the ODE. There are no Eugene or Lane County representatives on the House Higher Ed Committee: NE Portland: Michael Dembrow, Co-ChairHood River: Mark Johnson, Co-ChairNW Portland: Mitch Greenlick, Co-Vice ChairSweet Home: Sherrie Sprenger, Co-Vice ChairBeaverton: Chris HarkerClackamas County: Dave HuntHillsboro: Shawn…
Update, from the comments: One of the groups leading the attack against the restructuring is the Oregon Indian Education Association. Their president is Alison Ball. http://02af27e.netsolhost.com/OIEA/welcome-to-oiea/board-of-directors/ She is the wife of Tom Ball, one of the 3 AVP’s that was just reassigned: http://diversity.uoregon.edu/dr-tom-ball-assistant-vice-president I haven’t seen any acknowledgement of this rather…
For me the Duck’s fast moving violations of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are the most exciting part of the game. But every now and then I check out FishDuck.com to try and understand what’s happening on the field. This latest analysis by Josh Schlichter clarifies what are clearly some pretty complicated…
No, not to me. For now I’ll fight with Dave Hubin for public records the hard way. Give to poor people. Give Directly identifies needy Kenyan families based on the quality of their housing – i.e. mud vs cinderblocks, thatched roof versus tin. Then they transfer money to them directly, via…