5/23/2011: According to all the data, what UO needs most to keep our AAU status is more GTF/GRA positions. But instead we are going to spend the money on another administrator. I love the responsibilities part. “Develop a strategic communications plan.” What the fuck does this have to do with…
UO Matters
5/19/2011: Here’s a bit of highly relevant news for the UO faculty union movement, from Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago filed for union recognition last month — moving to become one of a small number of research universities to seek collective bargaining for professors, and…
5/19/2011: In case you were wondering what UO’s best paid professor is up to now. Jeff Manning in the Oregonian: Two influential Oregon lawyers have accused the current top criminal lawyer in the state Justice Department of lying to suspects to intimidate them, which they claim violates Oregon State Bar…
5/19/2011: Or the usual recession result? Don’t expect the NY Times to actually do any analysis. A quotefest from Catherine Rampell in the NY Times: The median starting salary for students graduating from four-year colleges in 2009 and 2010 was $27,000, down from $30,000 for those who entered the work…
5/17/2011: The UO Foundation has finally submitted its 2009 IRS 990 form. This covers the FY from July 1 2009 to June 30 2010. That’s right, the most recent data the foundation will release is almost a year old. Download here. The IRS reporting requirements are tightening though, and this…
5/13/2011: There are some intermittent problems with posting, comments, and with the polls (the n seems to have doubled overnight). This has happened before, blogger.com usually fixes it in a day or two.
At Duke, that is. From Libby Sander in the Chronicle, 5/12/2011: Deborah Jakubs, vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, was at a dean’s retreat one Saturday in February when she fell into conversation with the university’s athletic director, Kevin White. The two agreed that they should find a…
5/11/2011: The ivory tower has never been exactly snowy white, but here is an example of a particularly egregious case, the Koch gifts to fund chairs in Free Market Economics at Florida State. Fascinating gift letter/contract here, news story from Kris Hundley of the St. Petersburg Times (that’s Florida, not…
5/11/2011: Two interesting stories in the ODE. Nora Simon has a retrospective on UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz’s term: Shared governance means the Senate and the administration have joint power to make decisions that affect the University, according to the University’s charter, and Tublitz has fought to keep that relationship…
6/9/2011: Over the last decade UO’s research ranking dropped by 4, to #128. From the Chronicle of Higher Ed report issued yesterday, based on “federally financed research funding”. One possible reason for the fall is our minuscule “institutionally financed research expenditure” In theory, these funds can act as seed money…
5/8/2011: Greg Bolt has dual front page stories on the UO administration’s complicity in subsidizing UO athletics with state tax revenue and regular student tuition, in today’s Register Guard. The first compares the dismal support services for regular students with what the athletes get at what the NY Times calls…
5/8/2011: In 2009 OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner, PhD appointed Dave Frohnmayer as UO President Emeritus for Life, with this sweetheart contract. Now it looks like the UO Senate is going to take that title away from him: It’s a tough world: last summer Russ Tomlin cut Frohnmayer’s pay to $201,208…
5/7/2011: The Oregon Daily Emerald has some great photos of the Friday night concert, outdoors at the EMU. By photogs Ivar Vong and Aaron Marineau. Check out the link, you will wish you were not so old.
5/7/2011: In the Austin Statesman, via bojack.org. The UT system compiled a data set on faculty productivity, then squelched it, then fired the guy who told the press they’d squelched it. Jack wonders if the recent SOS audit was motivated by questions from an Oregon legislator. Probably, Oregon HB 3118…
College Republicans, FIRE, Zoo
5/17/2011: Two posts from the OC: College Republican BBQ is Saturday at 1PM, organized by Zach Webb. Art Robinson will speak. Vegetarian option available. Lyzi Diamond writes on FIRE and how they would run the zoo.