Just kidding, coach wants that $1.7M. UO is planning to raise student fees to pay for the new health center and keep the ticket subsidy for athletics. Diane Dietz has the story here.
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Ryan Thorburn has his contract details in the RG. $3.2M a year for him, $4M for the players. Just kidding, this is the NCAA. The $4M is for his assistant coaches. He played football for uncle Jack, and coached with cousin Jim. But economics has no mercy. While Duck AD…
10AM in the JH Conference Room. I assume meetings on restricting the time, place and manner of free speech are open to the public. The Senate website has more here. I’ll be conducting the traditional JH lobby sit-in from 9:45 until the meeting starts, wearing a black shirt in protest.
In the NYT, of course: Yale Sets Policy That Could Allow Renaming of Calhoun College … “This isn’t about symbolic politics, but about the mission of the university,” said John Fabian Witt, a historian at Yale Law School and the chairman of the committee. Fostering an inclusive campus, he said,…
Colleen Flaherty has an interesting summary of the discussion in InsideHigherEd here: Point and counterpoint is the rhythm of academic life, but some ideas elicit more of a response than others. Case in point: scholars and other intellectuals have spent the past couple of weeks debating “The End of Identity…
I have no idea. The cousins aren’t talking. FishDuck.com thinks it’s a good idea, so sure. Yes, the NCAA graduation rates for WKU and FSU fell after Taggart took over, but whatever, he’s family:
Greg Schiano, a former Penn State assistant now at Ohio State, is a prospect for a Duck football coaching job, according to the RG’s Austin Meek: “The way I can describe Rutgers and (working under) Greg Schiano is ‘I came to Rutgers as a boy and left a man,’” Fleck told NJ.com. “I went…
(As updated with additional information from OSU.) This is considerably more useful than the brief report sent out by UO’s Hans Bernard today, and which I’ve posted in the UO BOT live blog below. You can get still more info on OSU’s excellent government affairs blog. In comparison UO’s website is here – brief…
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…
Max Thornberry has the news here: “The matter is not one within the purview of the Senate, but President Schill always welcomes the advice and helpful assistance of the Senate Chair and Vice Chair,” Tobin Klinger, university communications officer said in an email to the Emerald. “He has asked the…
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…
Will Campbell has the report on today’s Senate meeting, in the Daily Emerald here: My amendment to keep the IAC in reserve failed narrowly, and I then voted with the ayes to replace the Senate Intercollegiate Athletics Committee with a purely advisory IAAC. I regard the agreement as symbolic of the desire of…
The Senate meets today. Lots of interesting stuff on the Senate website at senate.uoregon.edu. Please comment there not here. The Faculty Club will be open 5-8 Wed and Thu this week. Remember, faculty can bring a guest. Rumor is that the suggestion box will be open, in case anyone has recommendations for an…
11/29/2016 update: The RG’s Ryan Thornburn has the shocking details here.
Or at least I think it was the basketball coach – he’s about to drop out of the rankings too. But maybe his buyout is next year.
Meanwhile, Mullens, Altman, Helfrich and the other well-paid Athletic Department employees haven’t been giving much to the University’s Charitable Fund Drive for state and community charities:
11/28/2016 update: Matt Helfrich wins excellent $9.4M buyout with lousy 34-44 Civil War loss
Why does it always have to be a 5-year plan? It’s simple. The Nazi’s gave the 4-year plan a bad name. The Poles tried a 6-year plan, but gave up after 5. Jesuits do 7-year plans, but they’ve got eternity on their side. So while the inventor of the 5-year plan was not exactly a saint, 5…