Meeting of the Board — 1:45PM December 1-2, 2016 [Materials] The 2015-16 audited financial statements are finally posted here, with past statements here. Spending on Instruction is up 9% over 3 years, spending on research is down, spending on Institutional Support (i.e. administration) is up 17%. Despite previous requests from the…
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Breaking news: Governor to cut real Higher Ed operating budget, won’t give HECC their requested extra $100M, will fund construction, will blow $35M on “free” community college. In the Oregonian: Gov. Kate Brown is proposing a roughly equal combination of new revenues and program cuts to close a looming $1.7 billion…
These are not easy to find on the Board’s website, so I’ve put them here. Schedule and links. Each link below takes you to a post with the respective committee agenda, documents, summary and sometimes some commentary. The full board agenda and materials and some live-blogging are at the bottom.…
Executive and Audit Committee —1:15 pm – September 8, 2016 Ford Alumni Center, Giustina Ballroom [Materials] Whoops, that’s from OSU. Also see their detailed work plan posted by their Board’s Executive and Audit Committee. Compare with the minimalist info the UO Board is willing to share: UO: Convene – Call to order, roll call – Approval…
Elevator version: Moffitt says the academic budget is sort of OK. Meanwhile Mullens is raking in the dough, and spending it just as quickly on whatever he wants. No talk of the long overdue Athletics Department contributions to UO’s academic mission. Finance and Facilities Committee — September 8, 2016 10:00 am…
These are not easy to find on the Board’s website, so I’ve put them here. Elevator version: A long rambling report from Coltrane on academic program assessment, followed by a substantive report on UO’s new student success initiatives, with Schill’s new hire Doneka Scott and Bramhall and Freinkel. The trustees…
They want more diversity on the board, more info on finances and audits, more time to interact with students, faculty, deans, and ask questions and have discussions, and less emphasis on one-sided presentations: Just kidding, that’s the OSU Board of Trustees. Full 7 page evaluation here. I have no idea…
The UO BOT does not post videos of the board meetings – so UO Matters operatives will do it for them. More to come. (Links fixed, thanks.) Randy Sullivan’s farewell speech to the Board: “Six Myths the UO Trustees believe about the University Senate” starts at https://youtu.be/qn1T21TlS_0?t=2h8m2s Faculty Union President Michael Dreiling…
The morning committee meetings are here. Live video here. Some live blogging below. Usual disclaimer: my opinion of what people said, should have said, meant, or should have meant. Highlights (to be updated): Strong public comments from the the Divest UO students, who describe the contempt they’ve received from the…
These are the morning committee meetings. The afternoon full board meeting is here. Live video here. Some live blogging below. Usual disclaimer: my opinion of what people said, should have said, meant, or should have meant. Highlights (to be updated): Still no information from Trustee Susan Gary on the secret…
Back in 1987 the OUS Board established several policies establishing their control over intercollegiate athletics. These became UO policies in 2014. Tomorrow at 10AM in the JH Conference room, UO Board of Trustees Secretary Angela Wilhelms is going to try and persuade the Policy Advisory Committee to recommend that two of the three policies…
The tit-for-tat from the Duck boosters who wanted the state to give them a Board they could control was their promise that private donations would soar. They haven’t – except of course for sports facilities like the Mariota worship center, the new softball egofice, and the Hayward Field tart-up. The state, on the other hand, has…
3/4/2016: Diane Dietz has the latest on this increasingly interesting debate, in the RG here: … Eminent black scholar Edwin Coleman said it would be a “disgrace” to remove the name of Matthew Deady from the oldest hall on the University of Oregon’s campus to mollify students who condemn Deady’s racist…
Update: Diane Dietz reports that the Trustees voted 11-3 to raise tuition – here: … The trustees voted 11-3 in favor of Schill’s proposal for a higher-level of tuition. The students stood, yelled and stomped out of the room. Trustees Willcox, Ann Curry and student trustee William Paustain voted against…
Diane Dietz is here, so expect some good RG reporting. I’ll blog what I can. 9AM: Finance and Facilities Committee — March 3, 2016 [Materials] 1PM: Academic and Student Affairs Committee — March 3, 2016 [Materials] (Page way down). Tomorrow: Meeting of the Board — March 4, 2016 [Materials] FFC: Convene – Call to…