10/20/2011: From Tamar Lewin in today’s times, story here: “This case presents the increasingly familiar tale of a public university that, embarrassed by its own wrongdoing, cries ‘student privacy’ in an attempt to frustrate public disclosure of information reflecting unflatteringly on the conduct of the university’s administrators,” the brief said.…
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10/20/2011: VPFA Frances Dyke told the UO faculty, students, OUS – and perhaps also State Senator Floyd Prozanski and the state legislature – that conversion of DPS to a sworn, potentially armed UO campus police force was only going to cost $76,000. She told the ODE it might save $73,000.…
10/20/2011: Institutional Research reports that last year the UO Foundation spent ~$6 million on Academic, merit, and need scholarships. Puts that $3.2 million overhead subsidy for athletics into perspective. Oh yeah, the Foundation spent almost $9 million on athletic scholarships. And of course the athletic department spent $2 million of…
10/19/2011: I’m still getting the runaround on how the athletic department’s overhead assessment got cut from 8% to 3%. Jamie Moffitt, Frances Dyke, Brad Shelton, and Laura Hubbard are all claiming they have no documentation on what was supposed to be an “Auditable” process. Actually, Moffitt is being a little…
Sorry for the late posting: To: UO Deans and Directors From: Robert Kyr President, University Senate Re: First Provost’s ForumThis Wednesday, October 19, 20114:00-6:00 pm, Beall Concert HallUniversity of Oregon School of Music & Dance (Please see the map attached.) As President as the University Senate, I am writing to…
10/18/2011: Big news politically. Cites health concerns. I hope he will make part of his political legacy for his last year a toughening up on his interpretation of Oregon public records law. More here.
10/18/2011: I’m tired of this too, but there’s big money at stake: About $3.2 million a year. More than the $2.8 million faculty raises will cost, more than the $2.4 million Frances Dyke spent remodeling Johnson Hall, more than the $2 million we spend on the Jock Box, more than…
10/17/2011: (revised) Two weeks ago we wrote how Duck athletics pays just half what other UO units pay towards UO’s administrative costs. How did this happen? In late 2007 a UO task force chaired by AVP Laura Hubbard recommended all “Auxiliary” units (a term which is explicitly defined to include…
10/15/2011: The ad for a replacement for Jamie Moffitt’s ESAADFAA job is already posted. Funny title. Looks like they’ve hired Parker Search, the same firm that brought us Rob Mullens, for $75,000.
10/15/2011: Dennis Richardson, probably the most conservative, balanced budget, family values representative in the state legislature, speaks out on federal meddling in Oregon’s largest agricultural success story: During a tour Thursday of a medical marijuana farm outside Jacksonville, Republican Rep. Dennis Richardson said some growers are abusing Oregon’s medical marijuana…
10/14/2011: De gustibus non est disputandum. Or so the Nobel Prize winning economists say. But the rest of us might wonder why the UO development office didn’t try, or couldn’t succeed, at redirecting this generous couple’s tax deductible gift toward some purpose more important than a concert hall that will…
10/14/2011: From an editorial in the Corvallis paper: Corvallis Gazette-Times, Oct. 11, on raises for university faculty: Say what you will about University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere – and the man has picked up something of a maverick label during his term at the Eugene campus – he might…
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10/14/2011: A New York Times article explains how competitive Indian universities have become, and how more students are coming to the US, instead of the UK. These are top students and it would be good networking for our Oregon students. Indian enrollment is still very low here. President Lariviere is…
in Wisconsin, that is. Here in Oregon this would just be normal everyday corrupt cronyism. Scams like this have been a part of the standard retirement packages for top administrators ever since Dave Frohnmayer wrote special deals for Dan Williams, Lorraine Davis, and John Moseley. We’ve spent millions of student…