Elevator version: John Bonine and Kevin Reed and the Senate had a civil, collaborative, and productive session on the counseling confidentiality motion and the GCO amendment. Many interesting issues came out, thanks to the full engagement of the Senate. Some issues were dealt with expeditiously with new amendments, generally unanimously. Given the April…
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An Op-Ed in the RG today, full text here: During February’s legislative session, the University of Oregon’s top lobbying priority was to increase the state hotel tax to get $25 million to subsidize TrackTown USA’s 2021 championship games. There were no visible efforts to work for new funding to improve…
Diane Dietz has a thorough report on the student-led effort to get the UO Foundation to divest from fossil-fuel stocks, here. The students have been pushing this for years. Last year the students persuaded the UO Senate to unanimously endorse divestment – I think I was the last Senator to switch to…
At UO, as at most research universities, many undergrad courses are taught by graduate students who are in the process of getting PhDs. The grad student teaching frees up faculty to teach graduate level classes and supervise the research of the PhD students. Are the undergrads getting a good education?…
and finds nought but a “scattered assortment of spreadsheets”, here. Not to mention the $10M side payment to her husband’s law school. $2.4 million a year for the Duck athletic department’s Jock Box – her former employer. $2M in legal fees and damages for the behavior of UOPD Police Chief Carolyn McDermed,…
Update: A retired NCC professor has more in the RG, here. 1) Ben Franklin (Penn): “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” 2) Ben Hansen (UO) quoted in a well researched Daily Emerald article by Forrest Welk, which also quotes President Schill etc: Vickie Gimm, a UO student, took…
3/7/2016: And another raise. Mediation starts April 27, meanwhile the legal bills pile up. All paid from the academic budget, of course. 2/07/2016: What’s it about this time? Duck bowl games. Back in 2012 Duck Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Eric Roedl got a call from some insurance salesman, and…
Surveys much be completed by 5:00, Wednesday, March 9.
Candidate A: February 23-24, 2016 – Roger Cone
Candidate B: February 25-26, 2016 – David Conover
Candidate C: March 1-2, 2016 – Patricia Bauer
Candidate D: March 3-4, 2016 – Edmund Seebauer
From the Iowa Political Markets. The vertical axis is the market price of a contract that pays $1 if the event occurs. (Strictly speaking this price is not a probability estimate, but close enough for economists. See Predictwise for more.) Presidential winner:
3/5/2016: Just kidding, UO is laying off the faculty who find themselves in this situation. The bonus is for basketball coach Dana Altman, after his unpaid student-athletes came in first in the PAC-12 season. He’ll get another $110K if they win the PAC-12 tournament for him, etc. Meanwhile he can barely fill half of Knight…
3/5/2015: No, of course I’m not talking about the $30K that UO administrators get each year as part of the lousy apparel contract they signed with Nike. That seems like an interesting potential conflict of interest, but I’m sure UO’s Office of Internal Audit has carefully vetted it, just as they must have…
3/4/2016: Diane Dietz has the latest on this increasingly interesting debate, in the RG here: … Eminent black scholar Edwin Coleman said it would be a “disgrace” to remove the name of Matthew Deady from the oldest hall on the University of Oregon’s campus to mollify students who condemn Deady’s racist…
Update: Diane Dietz reports that the Trustees voted 11-3 to raise tuition – here: … The trustees voted 11-3 in favor of Schill’s proposal for a higher-level of tuition. The students stood, yelled and stomped out of the room. Trustees Willcox, Ann Curry and student trustee William Paustain voted against…
Just kidding, the RG reports he’s considering selling some land, but unfortunately it’s not PK Park. To bad, because baseball is a money pit. It’s the English Department of the Duck Athletic enterprise. The Ducks make a lot of money on football, break even on basketball, and lose money on everything…
$0 for academics. Saul Hubbard has the news in the RG, here: With two narrow, last-minute votes, lawmakers on Thursday boosted the state’s tax on hotel stays, a Eugene-driven proposal that took a tortuous path in the short legislative session. House Bill 4146 would likely pave the way for a…