10/12/2011: From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian. Bojack has one interesting explanation.
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10/11/2011: Currently the DOJ handles litigation and many other matters for UO and the OUS system. SB 242 devolves responsibility that to OUS and the universities. UO General Counsel Randy Geller wants to subcontract a chunk of this work out. His request for proposals was augmented by an amendment from…
10/11/2011: That’s the word from Greg Bolt’s RG article today. Seems more than a bit high for an internal hire with no direct experience in the job. Plus we’ll have to keep paying Dyke to job shadow for 6 months. The Chronicle database reports the median salary for CFO’s at…
10/10/2011: So did the DOJ. Bojack.org has the story. Meanwhile Bill Graves tries to dig up some quotes complaining about the UO raises, from PSU and other OUS professors. He can’t find much, but the online comments are interesting – many support the UO raises. The Croissant Chancellor’s lowest common…
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…
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…
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…
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…
10/8/2011: Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian has written a long string of fascinating articles on the business of college athletics. The UO athletics department has been very, very good for her: two weeks ago the Wall Street Journal hired her for their national desk. On her way to NYC she…
10/8/2011: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian, on the recent court ruling that people with a concealed carry permit can bring their piece to campus: Portland State University President Wim Wiewel said the universities should take administrative measures immediately, such as requiring students to sign contracts and not to carry…
10/8/2011: Nathan Tublitz has just been elected chair of the IAC for 2011-2012. This is great news for everyone who wants the athletic department to come clean about the financial subsidies they receive from the academic side, and who believes that the faculty should have a serious role in oversight…
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.…
pays half what other UO activities pay towards UO’s administrative costs: Guess who has to pay the rest of these costs for them. And what do they do with this ~$3 million subsidy? First thing, everybody gets a car! Then more fat raises. 10/6/2011. As someone pointed out, the…
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…
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…