10/20/13: Thanks to a curious janitor for the file. The office cleaning schedule for UO’s top administrators? The 8×10 faculty offices? Once a week: Whatever, it’s mostly just empty cups from Cafe Roma. But the day care center? Just on Wednesdays: Now that’s a bit scary.
Posts tagged as “administrative bloat”
10/16/2013: News here. Not clear if that will get him another bowl game junket. Our President’s Org Chart is getting crowded.7/3/2013: Lorraine Davis is Coltrane’s special assistant? Geller still in the game, Bean is gone, his gig writing the UO Board’s bylaws doesn’t merit a box:
That would be Duck President Mike Gottfredson, in dollars of pay per $1M of university revenue, compared to Husky President Mike Young: The Husky faculty, on the other hand, took the Ducks by 13 points:
9/25/2013 update: A simple request like this used to take a few days. Almost 2 weeks, and still no response.9/16/2013 update: Another year, and a few more boxes and arrows. The new and improved org chart is here. Dave Hubin has said “If we get a request for a contract,…
9/10/2013: The latest US News rankings are great news for UO’s finances: The University of Oregon moved up in the rankings — jumping six rungs to No. 109 on the list of about 1,376 colleges nationally. And Christian Whithol of the RG reports on still more good financial news for UO: Eugene’s latest…
9/5/2013 update: The data I just bought from President Gottfredson’s public records office includes salary, but not extra stipends taken as salary or other compensation. These are reported every three months in the quarterly reports on UO’s Institutional Research page here. (Stipends that faculty use to support research and teaching…
Page down for live-blog, 9/3/2013. Next session Friday, I think 9AM – 4PM. Be there. Wrap-up: UO’s faculty union bargaining team has played President Gottfredson’s lead negotiator Sharon Rudnick like a screechy fiddle. She has insisted since March that there was no more money, beyond her initial 10.5% offer. The union…
9/2/2013: Another UO alum’s letter, with response from President Gottfredson – a month later. Note this predates the “University of Nike” piece in the NYT. I’m happy to post more of these, just email them to uomatters at gmail.com. From: [ ]Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:01 PMTo: President GottfredsonSubject: Trash…
7/29/2013: Great news. The university has finally published a comprehensible budget, a strategic plan, and information on future spending priorities. 114 pages, starting with a fact-filled letter from the President, followed with detailed reports on what has been achieved and what remains to be achieved from the 2009 academic plan. There’s…
7/19/2013: UO is under-administrated? Our academic accreditors, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, require that 2.A.11 The institution employs a sufficient number of qualified administrators who provide effective leadership and management for the institution’s major support and operational functions and work collaboratively across institutional functions and units to foster fulfillment of the…
6/30/2013: The new academic year starts July 1, which means it’s time to make public records requests for the contracts President Gottfredson has given our administrative leaders. Under Lariviere I could get these in a few days at no charge, but I’m expecting this year Gottfredson and Hubin will use…
between the students and the faculty union on tuition increases seems to have failed. 6/3/2013 update: Here’s the mic check video, from a helpful commenter. The guy in the middle is Frog, or maybe Bean, after an administrative sabbatical paid for with student tuition increases. Say, what is Bean going…
5/24/2013: The OUS F&A committee has unanimously voted to endorse the tuition increase proposals and send them to the full OUS board for approval in June. Meanwhile Zillow has just increased it’s estimate of the market value of Pernsteiner’s soon to be vacant Treetops mansion to $1.3M. No word on recent…
Sharon Rudnick, when delivering the administration’s counter-offer last week: “You can argue whatever you want. This is what it is. This is our best offer. You can make all the accusations you want.” The union’s slightly more temperate response: Our proposal would redirect 2% of the university’s total operating budget by…
3/28/2013: A column by Wicke Sloane, in Insidehighered, on the SEIU staff union’s research reports on conflicts of interest and administrative bloat at public universities: I commend the 5,000 higher education workers of the Massachusetts Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 615. These men and women, led by Massachusetts SEIU…