President Gottfredson has passed the public records buck to Dave Hubin, who has passed it to a committee. It’s a mixed bag of appointees, mostly administrators, ranging from apathetic to obviously conflicted to excellent. None have recent experience making public records requests to UO. Their charge – or at least the…
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11/1/2012: They’ve just posted an ad for a new McMorran house event manager, focusing on development. Nothing about scotch for the faculty. 10/23/2012. Me neither. Don’t take it personally, Gottfredson is obviously not interested in social networking with the UO faculty, and apparently has even laid off the staffer in charge…
11/1/2012: Former UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz has sent me a copy of this motion which he intends to introduce in the Senate in November, for debate in January: MOTION TITLE: Performance Review of Provost James C Bean Sponsor: N. Tublitz, Professor of Biology MOTION: The Senate requests President Gottfredson…
That would be Graham Spanier, former Penn State President, for perjury and obstruction of justice. Spanier had testified in the legislature in 2007 against transparency and public records access for Penn State – after he knew about Sandusky. What are the chances this will encourage UO President Gottfredson to start forcing…
11/1/2012: The US still has a comparative advantage in higher education. But if we keep going down this road it’s just going to be in football. From Insidehighered.com: Education officials from Taiwan traveled to California last week to recruit students, The Los Angeles Times reported. About 1,000 people — many…
Spellman college has just done it. Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has the story. 11/1/2012.
10/31/2012: Today’s message from our interim provost – presumably sent with Gottfredson’s blessing – represents some serious backtracking regarding Brad Shelton’s 2009 “New Budget Model”, of which Shelton wrote: What is RCM? In most modern American universities, authority is highly decentralized, but responsibility (specifically financial responsibility) is held centrally. This decoupling of authority…
The Daily Emerald reports their audit of UO public records requests finds significant problems with the UO General Counsel’s compliance with the law. But the president is denying anything is wrong: “If there were a persistent violator or you had the door slammed in your face, that would indicate training…
Last I heard was this story from John Canzano in July 2011. Lyles was working for $8 an hour in a Houston grocery store, and still trying to get the second $25,000 that he says Chip Kelly, currently earning $2,000 an hour, had promised him.
Update: See the comments for this correction, from Ms Emeldi’s lawyer, David Force, making clear that the Emeldi case is against UO, not against Prof Horner: There is not now and never has been a lawsuit by her against Dr. Horner. The sole defendant in the case is the University…
The American Council on Education is offering classes on how to be a Provost – only $3,850. 10/29/2012.
10/29/2012: Johnson Hall *really* doesn’t give a shit what the faculty think, so they simply opted out of the OUS survey on faculty satisfaction: And they honestly wonder why “their faculty colleagues” voted to unionize? Later in the docket for the Nov 1 meeting the issue of evaluations of university presidents comes…
10/29/2012: The University of Iowa Law School was sued in 2009 for failing to hire a conservative instructor. The ruling just came out, and is described by Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle: In a case in which the University of Iowa College of Law stood accused of political bias for…
10/27/2012: That’s the rumor down at the faculty club. No details yet. An honorable outcome, particularly if it’s quick and cheap. Update: A reader points out that Lariviere gave Bean a 3 year contract renewal in May 2011, which Berdahl reapproved after the sabbatical – i.e. until July 2014. This doesn’t prevent Gottfredson…
Last fall the OUS board published this breakdown of Duck athletic finances: SUMMARYThe UO Athletics working capital as of June 30, 2011 was a negative $2.6 million, a decrease of $1.1 million from the prior year. The UO Athletics ended FY2011 with negative working capital and is not in compliance with the…