Can UO stay in the AAU? Should we?

8/3/2010:  The 19 AAU schools with the lowest federal research funding, out of the 63 members:

And we already know full prof salaries are 84% of our peers. So where does UO excel?

In the percentage of our budget that goes to Central Administration. They cost us 96% of the average public research university, on a per student basis. Our research expenditures are 63%.

Still no word on faculty raises.  Still no slowdown in hiring of more administrators. Sun still continues to set in the west.