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Nostalgic?

10/11/2011: I didn’t think so. The low point for UO was the April 2009 “Furlough Town Hall” where President Dave Frohnmayer, Provost Jim Bean, General Counsel Melinda Grier, and VPFA Frances Dyke tried to trick the faculty into agreeing to 5% pay reductions. Frohnmayer had just taken a $100,000 raise…

Rumor control

has it that Jamie Moffitt, currently Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration, will replace Frances Dyke as (interim) UO Vice President for Finance and Obfuscation, effective soon 1/1/2012.  Now verified, with an email from President Lariviere: Colleagues, I am announcing the reassignment of Jamie Moffitt as the…

Chump change

10/9/2011: Moira Kiltie of the VP for Research and Faculty Development office announces UO’s 2012 Summer research award program: The purpose of the SRA program is to stimulate research by providingfaculty with sustained time for scholarly and academic endeavor.Proposals may be submitted by faculty who meet the eligibility criteria.Up to…

PERS payment public

10/9/2011: Editor Peter Bhatia of the Oregonian has a long thoughtful editorial on their successful battle to make PERS payouts public: Our interest, going into this process, was examining PERS recipients who retired at pensions higher than their salaries (some receiving more than $100,000 annually from PERS). And we are…

Lariviere hires Berdahl

10/7/2011: From Greg Bolt in the RG: Robert Berdahl will work just under half time, about two days a week, on a variety of efforts, such as helping align the state’s ongoing restructuring of higher education with Lariviere’s proposals for how the higher education system should be run and funded.…

Double secret redactions

10/5/2011: Want to know what the NCAA’s cleaner Michael Glazier is doing in exchange for the $150,000 UO is paying him? Good luck – here’s what the August invoice looks like, after the UO Public Records office is done with it: The UO administration has no problem making the academic…

concussions and obesity

10/5/2011: From Frank Deford at NPR: All the worse, the current national model has it that some impoverished kid from the inner city risks concussions and obesity to play football in order to pay for the scholarship of a javelin thrower and the salary of an assistant swimming coach and…