10/7/2019 update: That’s the rumor from a generally well-informed source. Meanwhile Muenzer and Alex-Assensoh are still short three thought partners. Maybe they should try sharing more of their money? Just a thought. 9/11/2019: Search committees, meet your mandatory new admin “thought partners”: Budget crisis? Not in our bloated Provost’s office,…
Posts tagged as “2019 budget apocalypse”
10/2/2019: Anna Matson has the story in the Emerald here. If you can see an increase that justifies President Schill’s decision to exempt the UOPD from the budget crisis cuts you’re a more creative econometrician than I am: 4/15/2019: Some data on west of campus crime trends, relevant to budget…
Budget crisis? That’s just for the academic side. The heavily subsidized Duck athletic program is paying Nevada $650K. From the USAToday database here.
Thanks to an anonymous correspondent for compiling these from official data sources: INFLATION Western States Consumer Price Index: 3.1% HIGHER ED FUNDING State Funding (PUSF): +16.3% UO Student Tuition: +7.1% GTFF Graduate Employees Average Salary: $16,000 (based on 9-month .49FTE) Mgt Proposed Cost of Living Adjustment: 1.85% (~$296/yr) Union ask:…
Budget Crisis? Not at UO’s very charitable foundation: $453K Paul Weinhold $469K Jay Namyet Back in 2015 the UO Foundation was paying Foundation CEO Paul Weinhold $345K and CIO Jay Namyet $340K. Three years later Weinhold is making $453K, and Namyet $469K.\ By my math that’s a 35% increase, or…
No details, or any effort to explain why he is maintaining the subsidies for Duck Athletics and the law school. Link here: University administrators have completed the process of identifying $11.6 million in budget reductions to the University of Oregon’s education and general fund. President Michael H. Schill asked university…
The VP for Enrollment is forecasting a decline in in-state enrollment and an increase in new out-of-state students, which however will barely offset the decline from graduating students. It seems not every parent wants to send their child to Rob Mullens’s Duck branded big-time sports party school, especially one that…
While President Schill is cutting $9M from the academic budget, and about to propose 10% plus tuition increases. You can’t make this shit up. From reporter James Crepea at the Oregonian: “(The speakers) did not pop,” Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said. “What happened was there was a technical difficulty…
That would be UO President Paul Olum, in 1981: Thanks to an anonymous reader for the link.
The RG’s Christian Hill has the story on the $26M redo of the EWEB steam plant, here: … With a mix of commercial debt, equity from investors and tax credits, the team estimates a $4.1 million funding gap and likely would seek public dollars for the project… A project like…
DRAFT. Location: EMU 145 & 146 (Crater Lake rooms) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. All times are estimates. 3:00 P.M. Call to order University update; Provost Banavar Introductory Remarks; Senate Pres Harbaugh Senate committee review report; Senate VP Skowron 3:30 PM Approval of Minutes February 13, 2019 and April 10, 2019 3:31…
RG reporter Jordyn Brown has the story here: … Additionally, UO refused requests for interviews with representatives of the Oregon Bach Festival, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Labor Education and Research Center about the budget cuts. … This is what we…
Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to ask that you join me in signing a petition in support of the UO´s crucial Labor Education and Research Center. Many of you are longtime friends and supporters of LERC; others have collaborated with LERC faculty and know how the UO benefits from having a…
Update: RG photographer Chris Pietsch has taken many wonderful photos over the years and he is one of the reasons we still subscribe. And this may be his best: Story here. A little lite live-blogging. Usual disclaimer: Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. Two TV cameras, about 200 town hallers.…