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It’s easy pickings

searching through the UO accounts for expenses for our “self-supporting” athletic department that are actually paid by the academic side. The $2 million in general funds for the Jock Box tutoring is just one example. Here’s another – our NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative:

I’d never even heard of this position before. Despite the title, it is an administrative appointment. Surprise. Here’s a description of responsibilities from the FAR Association’s website. More here. An example:

3.         The faculty athletics representative should be responsible, either directly or indirectly, for institutional compliance activities or responsibilities, which involve campus entities outside the athletics department.  Such entities include, but are not limited to, the following:  (a) office of student financial aid, (b) office of undergraduate admissions, (c) office of the registrar and (d) offices of the academic vice-president and the deans of several colleges.  The faculty athletics representative should work in concert with the director of athletics to ensure a comprehensive and effective rules education and compliance program on the campus.

OK, maybe that’s worth 0.5 FTE at $187,729 plus staff and expenses – but shouldn’t the AD pay it?

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