3/1/2011: In response to a comment. Student numbers are up 10% since 2005. The Public Safety budget has doubled. (Ignore the parking component, it includes revenues.) Now they want a dog, too.
UO Matters
2/28/2011: Doug Kelderman of Insidehighered.com has a long story on the debate there, which involves many of the same issues as in Oregon. Including two competing legislative proposals, one from the state higher ed system, one from UW-Madison.
The payout from their $410 million endowment is 3% a year, or about $12 million. Here’s where a bunch of it goes. They’ve got more recent data on their new president Paul Weinhold’s salary – but he won’t release it. I’m guessing $350,000, $380,000 with benefits.
2/28/2010: Bill Graves has a piece in the Oregonian, raising more questions about Pernsteiner and Treetops – but focusing on consolidating OUS into one location. Pernsteiner still isn’t letting anyone inside to take photos. But he is now admitting he spends “a little less” time at Treetops than at his…
2/26/2011: Rachel Bachman has a piece in the Oregonian today on UO’s athletic budget: also up 60% since 2005. 2/25/2011: UO’s top administrators love to listen to themselves tell the faculty that it’s not “us versus you” and that we are all working together to improve teaching and research at…
2/26/2011: Oregonians believe crime is on the rise when, in fact, it’s at record-low levels, a Portland State University survey finds Story here, from Katy Muldoon in the Oregonian. Mat Wolf has a story in the ODE, repeating Doug Tripp and Frances Dykes tired arguments for this change – which…
OHSU, PSU, and OSU have set up a group to push Pernsteiner’s higher ed reform proposal, and presumably fight Lariviere’s. They’ve even got a website. From Nigel Jaquiss at wweek.com.
2/25/2011: From Insidehighered.com: Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, is trying to end the newly gained right of faculty members at the University of Wisconsin System to unionize. But faculty members at the university’s La Crosse campus voted this week to unionize, following similar votes by professors at the…
2/25/2011: Experiences of a student, soliciting donations for UO academics: My biggest pet peeves are three-fold: getting hung up on in the middle of a call, being told that you only support the Duck Athletic Fund so you can get access to better football tickets, or worse, being sworn at.…
http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2009/11/17/david-frohnmayer-loves-the-oregon-commentator/ I’ll say this for Dave, he wasn’t afraid to talk to the press. Probably because he had no qualms about lying his ass off.
2/24/2011: Last June Melinda Grier’s husband Jerry Lidz resigned as Oregon Solicitor General over the AG’s investigation of his wife, which concluded she’d provided UO with “deficient legal representation”. Guess I’m not the only one who thinks she took the fall for Frohnmayer. Kitzhaber has now put Lidz back on…
2/24/2011: and more transparency from the UO Foundation, here: Donations to the University’s athletic department in the form of outright gifts has increased by more than 200 percent in the last 10 years, while outright gifts to academics have remained stagnant, according to a recent Emerald article (“Athletic hype draws…
and this is way off topic, but this sort of thing really boils my blood. For those who aren’t bothered to read the article, a woman in India is blasting many modern farming practices and is pushing for organic farms in India. What I don’t think she understands is that…
2/22/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE has the most complete description of Kitzhaber’s education reform plan I’ve seen yet. Springfield Schools superintendent Nancy Golden is his adviser: How the governor’s plan will affect the host of higher education bills currently moving through the state legislature has yet to be determined.…
2/21/2011 update. President Lariviere and Provost Bean must have got an earful about Frances Dyke’s announcement that she would stay on until summer 2012. Today Bean announces the search will get underway within a few weeks, and she will be replaced as soon as we can hire someone else. Of…