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Posts tagged as “Research money”

follow-up on Huron report

4/8/2011: Date: April 8, 2011 5:31:06 PM PDTTo: Elizabeth Denecke , Public Records Requests Cc: Frances Dyke , …Subject: public records request, Huron report Hi Liz – The last amendment to the Huron contracts you sent me earlier this week says: A. The second to the last bullet point in…

NRC Graduate Rankings

9/28/2010: The NRC graduate rankings are out, Chronicle.com has a spiffy interactive tool, probably only accessible from campus. Many UO programs do very well – even without adjusting for shitty faculty pay and the fact that UO research support is 63% of average. The new quantitative methodology adopted by NRC…

bloat balloons

7/30/2010: More from “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS.  Looking at UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. We spend: $2,347 on Central administration. 96% of the average…

ORSA Questions

7/15/2010: We’ve written before about the chaos at ORSA. Paula Roberts is now gone, and apparently ORSA is now being run by Moira Kiltie and 2 consultants from Huron Consulting: Tim Patterson and Marisa Zuskar. On the ORSA staff website here. Rumor is Frances Dyke is paying Huron $250 an…

regarding Rich Linton:

update from Anonymous: It is a sad day at the University of Oregon when an administrator with the integrity and character of Rich Linton decides it’s time to leave.   As Roast Duck says, he is a classy guy.   While significantly elevating the profile of research, Rich always worked toward the…