They had skis and explosives and a destination … From the NYT, 12/9/2012.
UO Matters
By popular request. Submit your guesses for what’s behind UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s redactions to Sharon Rudnick’s most recent invoice. Prizes for the most and least accurate answers! (For more serious info on the petition to the Lane County DA for unredacted invoices, see here.) Any prize disputes to…
It’s the last day of finals week, I’m sitting here proctoring my last exam, and Johnson Hall is still trying to figure out how many faculty UO has. You’ll be shocked to hear that the numbers Interim Provost Bean presented to the Senate on Wed. are wrong: On FridayDec 7,…
Passenger to Conductor: “So, you got somebody up there watching the tracks as we go along?” Conductor: “Yup, the Engineer sits up there, keeping an eye on things.” Passenger: “So that’s his job, huh?” Conductor: “Yup. Well, that’s her job, actually.”
Posted on their website, here. Merit: In the bargaining process, we will be introducing an integrated and robust set of salary proposals for all faculty at the University of Oregon. These include multi-year efforts to systematically correct the salary differential with our AAU comparators, correct inversion and compression, create transparent…
12/5/2012 Update: Thanks to the UO Matters governmental affairs correspondent for the following unauthorized Senate minutes: Pres G reads from hand written notes again. He could not have shown more enthusiasm that the faculty union bargaining has started: “We are committed to the same things…. It is going very well……
Kelly Ardis reports in the RG that Duck fans are not snapping up Felony Bowl tickets at the expected pace. But presumably our administrators have their UO paid junkets all worked out – much easier when you are spending other people’s money. How many are going, and what excuse will they…
to study the problems in his Johnson Hall administration. About time. Ad posting here: The ideal candidates will have a demonstrated record of past scholarly success and experience in developing and applying quantitative approaches to the analysis of complex data sets, to address problems that are computationally challenging and data…
12/4/2012: It takes a heavy hand to enforce the NCAA’s rules against letting college football players get any of the fruits of their labor. UO’s Faculty Athletics Representative Jim O’Fallon sits on the NCAA Infractions Committee that wields the lash – and he was lucky he recused himself from this particular case. The…
Originally posted Dec 4th, 2012: All hail the glorious new five year plans! CAS Dean Scott Coltrane is ignoring Interim Provost Bean’s silly threats to start a blog to help him rewrite UO’s Academic Plan. If Bean ever does follow through on this, everyone will ignore it and Bean will…
12/3/2012: Dash Paulson has a well balanced article in the ODE. Meanwhile Rob Mullens still won’t produce the Robin Jaqua gift letter, which he claims allows the athletic side to keep all the proceeds from her $5 million gift for Jock Box tutoring. And check out this story on how the University…
Last year was the best ever for Duck football. Perfect regular season, second in the BCS. So good that AD Rob Mullens and Interim President Bob Berdahl argued that it was time to expand Autzen, and that if we did the athletic department might finally be able to follow through…
I try to keep this blog focused on sleazy administrators, football scams, and transparency. But every now and then something a bit more consequential comes up. From the comments on a UO Gabon post: Citoyen Libre Gabon Sunday, 02 December, 2012 University of Oregon just accepted a gift of $20M from…
at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville: After Tennessee fired its coach last week, the university’s chancellor said the athletic department would forgo $18 million in contributions it was to make to the university over the next three years for academic scholarships and fellowship programs.Instead, some of the money will…
12/1/2012: That’s the rumor from the coaches’ hot tub. If true, Kelly’s contract requires him to pay UO $2.5 million. VPFA Jamie Moffitt will make sure this goes directly to the academic side, to cover the AD’s 3 years of overhead underpayments, and reimburse our students for half this year’s Jock…