6/17/2012 update. Latest rumors say we will have ~25,200 students on campus next fall, that doctoral enrollment is flat at less than 1200 instead of the 1500 in the plan, and that there will be ~30 more tenure-track faculty, for a total of about 725 instead of the ~796 in…
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5/102012: The Emerald editors ask the right questions about athletic department spending. But the sleaze won’t stop up until they go after the people who are benefiting from this and or enabling it, by name: Rob Mullens, Bob Berdahl, Lorraine Davis, Jamie Mofitt, Dave Hubin.
5/9/2012: President Rob Kyr and Interim President Bob Berdahl will speak with the legislative committee on this, 5/10/2012. Agenda and remarks here.
5/9/2012: Here’s the agenda for today’s Senate meeting, 3PM in the Knight Library. With Bob Berdahl we thought we were hiring a caretaker who’d lend a little gravitas to the search for Larivere’s replacement, keep Pernsteiner at bay, and maybe clean up a few of JH’s more obvious problems. I…
Update: Rebecca X gives a student viewpoint on this excess and extravagance, in the OC. 5/8/2012: Sam Stites of the ODE has a great expose of the administration’s Rose Bowl junket. How can 56 people spend $120,000 on airfare to LA? Believe what you want about Duck football attracting students…
5/8/2012: The Eugene city council has just voted to give UO $400,000 a year. How’s that? The upscale downtown Capstone apartments will get a $800,000 annual tax exemption from the city. These are aimed at wealthy out-of-state students, for whom UO competes regionally, nationally and internationally. Parents shop around, looking…
5/8/2012: 15% of Americans now get food stamps. According to this story in the Chronicle, the proportion of people with advanced degrees getting food stamps or other federal assistance has tripled since 2006 – to about 1.5%.
5/6/2012: There’s a report card on the right, the comments here are open for praise, criticism, and suggestions for improvement.
5/4/2012: From UO Journalism Professor Kyu Houm’s great first amendment twitter feed. The Yemen Times story on their brand new FOI law is here. And the email from Hubin explaining how he and Berdahl and Geller are trashing the UO rules is here.
5/4/2012: Back in 2007 President Frohnmayer and Charles Martinez were putting UO through their expensive and pointless “5 Year Diversity Action Plan” mess. Meanwhile a group of 22 other universities started an evidence based program to improve college success among low-income and minority students. Their results have started to come…
5/3/2012: In the Oregonian: Kitzhaber saves Oregon budget and his reputation in health care deal with Obama administration
5/3/2012: Lorraine Davis has caved on her quixotic quest to have it called “subsidized parking”. Yup, better not to open that can of athletic worms. So the Emeritus Policy is now in effect and in the UO policy library, here. Key point: you must have been a full professor for…
gets a shout-out in the ODE. He’s bounced back up from Lariviere’s boot, with tenure and a rather impressive associate professor salary of $153,502. All apparently without an open, affirmative action compliant search. No word on how many other jobs he’s holding down this time. 5/3/2012.
5/2/2012: From the official Oregon Secretary of State website: OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner owns a house in Portland (OUS gives him $26,000 in state funds to help with the mortgage) and he spends most of his working time at his office at PSU. But he votes in Lane County. He’s…
5/2/2012: Last September, after a long series of meetings and after input from the faculty, students, and the press, President Lariviere instituted a simple $200 fee waiver system for public records requests. It worked pretty well. Maybe too well. Yesterday, with no warning or discussion with the Senate Transparency Committee,…