We gave a 3-hour presentation on this at the AAUP Summer Institute in Portland last month. It was lots of fun seeing Mike Mauer again. Mike helped Dave Cecil and the faculty union bargain our first contract, and it seems the AAUP liked what we had to say. The $350 goat bonus was a particular…
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Patrick Hruby has the latest on the NCAA’s plantation economics, here. I wonder how much Olympic cash the Duck Olympians that UO’s homepage has been hyping were allowed to keep, in contrast to Duck football and basketball players, whom the NCAA’s infractions committee will hound over cream cheese on a bagel.…
This is a long detailed report by David Pluviose, with many interesting quotes from the students and UO administrators. Thanks to a reader for the link.
The Portland Tribune has the story here: Written by Kira Hoffelmeyer and Russell Wilson Two weeks ago, the state’s top lawyer revealed how she wants to fix what she calls a “car wreck” — Oregon’s troubled public records law. That’s how Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum described the law when…
Today’s editorial here: … A visible effort by the UO to bring costs under tighter control, however, would influence lawmakers and donors alike. Such an effort could begin by restraining both the number and the salaries of university administrators, which have expanded in tandem over the past decade. No potential…
The Docket is here.Walkup’s website is here. Pavel is represented by Marianne Dugan. Amanda Walkup is one of the many lawyers Doug Park and Scott Coltrane hired to investigate me and the UO archivists over the Presidential Archives release. Walkup seemed pretty efficient and interested in getting at the truth. While she wouldn’t…
With the Ducks now well overdue for the next devastating scandal, The Oregonian has the news here: The NCAA estimated it will cost more than $38 million to finish the early-detection system and create a public alert, which would “give administrators a precious few seconds” to help prepare the cover-up “before the sports reporters start filing public records…
I can only imagine why the Dean of Students is trying to fill this job before our students get back on campus and can participate in the interview process. Orwell fans need not apply: Director, ASUO Men’s Center Office of the Dean of Students Salary Range: $44,000-47,000 for twelve months. [i.e. 4 full tuition…
8/15/2016: Brett Harris, university ombudsperson, recently joined the University of Oregon after serving as the ombudsperson at the University of Mississippi. Brett holds a B.A. in American Studies from Idaho State University and a J.D. from the University of Idaho College of Law with a degree emphasis in Native American…
Update: A helpful commenter has pointed out to me that there is no short term deterioration in UO’s financial position. (The PERS threat on the other hand is real). The $17.5M shortfall claimed in the RG story for this year was already dealt with by the university administration, by this year’s tuition…
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…
“Two oak trees removed Wednesday to be repurposed” I’m no tree hugger, but let’s call a chainsaw a chainsaw.
The RG’s Diane Dietz has the news on the report from Mike Schill’s denaming historians. This story concentrates on former UO Professor and KKK Exalted Cyclops Frederick Dunn: He was the exalted cyclops of the Eugene chapter of the Ku Klux Klan — “one of the most successful (KKK) klaverns in Oregon” —…
While the once mighty Duck sports enterprise has been reduced to using UO Foundation money to lobby Oregon’s politicians for a million in lottery money here, $25M in lodging taxes there, the University of Oregon’s librarians, led by Dean Adrienne Lim, have brought in $36M in voluntary charitable contributions to pay…
The full docket is here, courtesy of Carl Malamud’s RecapTheLaw. The RG’s Alisha Roemeling has a report here. The intro: The University of Oregon went to federal court Tuesday to argue that lawsuits filed by three former UO basketball players against the university should be thrown out. After a three-hour hearing, U.S. District…