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PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL info from UO Foundation reveals huge raises for CEO Paul Weinhold, CFO Kelly Bosch

By UO Matters on 07/10/2024

Thanks to an anonymous UOF Board member for suggesting I post this info.

From 2022 to 2023, UO Foundation CEO Paul (Ronald) Weinhold’s pay increased 23%, to $642,673. CFO Kelly Bosch’s pay increased $54%, to $317,846.

From 2013 to 2023, Weinhold’s pay increased by 101%. The pay for the average UO faculty member increased from $89,900 to $122,900, or 35%.

This money comes from an annual tax that the Foundation charges on the value of endowment gifts.

Weinhold also has a second job as Chairman of the Board at Summit Bank, where he recently appointed UO’s VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt as a board member. Summit is privately held, so no info on how much they make from these second jobs.

This of course is not “PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL” information, despite the Foundation’s scary words below. It comes from the IRS 990 forms that the Foundation is required to provide to anyone who asks, and which Propublico eventually posts here. Many not-for-profits post these on their websites, but not Weinhold and Bosch – who also run out the allowable extensions, so that the numbers for the fiscal year that ended June 30 will not be public until May 15 2015. I’ve posted the 2023 reports here and here.

From: “Kelly Bosch (UO Foundation Accounting Department)” <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: IRS 990 request [Request updated: #80355]
Date: July 9, 2024 at 7:51:58 AM PDT
To: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]>
Reply-To: UO Foundation Accounting Department <[email protected]>
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Papers I wish I’d written:

By UO Matters on 07/06/2024

The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India

  • Eyal Frank
  • Anant Sudarshan
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (FORTHCOMING)

Abstract

Scientific evidence has documented that we are undergoing a mass extinction of species, caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to scarce evidence on damages from losing individual species. This paper studies the collapse of vultures in India, triggered by the expiry of a patent on a painkiller. Our results suggest the functional extinction of vultures—efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from the environment—increased human mortality by over 4% because of a large negative shock to sanitation. We quantify damages at $69.4 billion per year. These results suggest high returns to conserving keystone species such as vultures.

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A letter from UO Law Professor Ofer Raban on the Administration’s agreement with the UO Palestine group

By uomatters on 06/09/2024

To the Law Faculty, the UO President, and the General Counsel, posted by request of Professor Raban: On May 23, UO President Karl Scholz announced that the university has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with UO Palestine—a coalition of four student organizations that demonstrated on campus for almost a month. The agreement includes, among…

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UO Board chair Steve Holwerda excited to hear a speaker demand that his Board do something that they can actually do

By UO Matters on 06/04/2024

Peace in the Middle East is so hard they give out Nobel peace prizes for participation. In comparison getting UO faculty pay back on the path to average just requires that President Scholz make the easy call to fire a few AVP’s and Ass Deans of this-and-that to cut administrative bloat back to its pre-covid level.

Here Math Prof Chris Sinclair explains to the UO Trustees why he thinks the faculty will strike if the Board and President Scholz continue to blow us off. Click the image for video:

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Scholz administration to pursue criminal charges against investiture protestors?

By UO Matters on 06/03/2024

It’s like when the road rash you got in that bike crash is mostly healed over but now you’ve got an itch you just gotta scratch, even though you know it’s gonna start bleeding again:

Reporter has the story here: 

In a conversation with the Daily Emerald, University of Oregon spokesperson Eric Howald confirmed that the university is considering a criminal investigation into pro-Palestine protesters interrupting UO President John Karl Scholz’ investiture ceremony at Matthew Knight Arena on May 30.

Protestors further vandalized campus property, which Howald said that UO is reviewing photo and video footage from this and the protestors’ actions at the ceremony. Howald confirmed that the school is using the documentation to pursue both criminal and academic charges against student protestors.

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Daily Emerald on how badly UO pays female faculty, with salary lookup

By UO Matters on 06/03/2024

Reporter Alicia Santiago has the well-researched report here, covering the successful discrimination lawsuit by Prof Jennifer Freyd (Psychology), as well as new complaints by Patricia Lambert (PPPM) and Margaret Sereno (Psychology. The Emerald has also posted a convenient database of salaries here, from UO’s IR pdfs – which used to…

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