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Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 15
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Update on 2/26/2026: I retired about two years ago, as explained below. It turns out retirement is a full time job and posting has been...
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UO investigator concludes no reasonable person could agree with Dean Adrian Parr Zaretsky
By uomatters
The latest on the meltdown of UO's leadership, from the Eugene Weekly. This is about the Dean who accused a sophomore of harassment, over an...
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Cowardly Trustees throw President under the bus
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The Northwestern University board will sleep well, knowing that a longer fight would have been even worse for their university. Schill will get a buyout...
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Provost Long blames leaks – not firings – for faculty/staff angst
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From the Trustees meeting on 8/27/2025: Q for ChatGPT: Is the Provost really blaming the angst on the leaks, and not the fact people will...
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UO Administrators up 18%, tenure track faculty up 2%
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Those are the numbers from UO's official IR page here, from 2017 to 2024. They've removed the earlier data they used to show, sorry. Measured...
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Dear Colleagues …
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Dear CAS colleagues, As President Scholz and Provost Long indicated in their memo yesterday, UO schools and colleges are in the process of finalizing their...
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Oregon Rising: Pres Scholz to fire tenured faculty, close programs
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Those are the rumors. The union's message is here. Here's all Scholz is willing to say publicly: Dear colleagues, At the end of last academic...
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President Scholz loses control of another Dean
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In a nutshell, an undergrad said some sophmoric things about CoD Dean Adrian Parr Zaretsky in an art exhibit. So the dean - by outward...
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President Scholz fires J-School Dean Juan-Carlos Molleda after UO auditors catch him padding his expense accounts
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Just kidding. UO has no effective internal audit operation and is no longer subject to state audits. Our administrators can do whatever they want. It...
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What does a professor have to do to get their obit in the NYT?
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I only know of two UO professors who've made the cut: Economics Professor Ray Mikesell, who died in 2006 at 93, and now Biology Professor...
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Parker Executive Search execs Wilder & Williams to answer questions

By uomatters on 02/09/2015

2/9/2015 reminder: Two of the Parker principals, Laurie C. Wilder, President, and Porsha L. Williams, Vice President, will be on campus Wednesday to answer questions about the Presidential Search:

9-10 in the Law School’s 4th floor Lewis Lounge room, then 3-4 at the Senate meeting.

Lewis Lounge holds about 40, so if you get there early please save me a seat.

This search has been in trouble since the day Chuck Lillis and Angela Wilhelms snuck a motion by the board giving Lillis sole authority to pick one finalist. We’ll see if Parker can explain the plan to save it.

2/6/2014: The New York Times has a story on a problematic previous search by this firm, for Rutgers, here.

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Coltrane stalling on sexual violence reforms?

By uomatters on 02/09/2015

With the lawsuit over the alleged basketball rapes picking up steam, Johnson Hall is in a dicey situation regarding allegations they’ve been mishandling sexual assaults. Changes in procedures might imply that there was something wrong with the old procedures and increase liability. Sure enough, it seems like not much is changing. From Scott Greenstone and…

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UO Board to give Rob Mullens or Mark Helfrich another raise?

By uomatters on 02/07/2015

“The materials for this portion of the agenda are not yet complete”. The meeting is Monday at 3PM, Room 402 in the Alumni Center. BOT Secretary Angela Wilhelms has done her best to evade the intent of public meetings law a few times before, this is getting pretty shameless. Coltrane…

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If ASUO can’t break tie, Duck Athletics will get $0 from students.

By uomatters on 02/07/2015

2/7/2014 update: It turns out the ASUO committee tie-breaker vote reported below was disallowed. They are going to meet again Tuesday 8AM (in the Rogue River room, I think) to try again. Presumably AAD Eric Roedl will be there, hat in hand. If the committee can’t come to an agreement,…

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Gov Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes caught in Gross National Happiness scam

By uomatters on 02/06/2015

Seriously? Oregon has managed to corrupt the idea of a Gross National Happiness measure? Why can’t our politicians stick to sleazy construction deals and garbage contracts, like the rest of the world does? The Oregonian reports that state bureaucrats are now releasing incriminating public records with abandon, trying to save…

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Duck PR flack writes an entire story on UO finances without linking to a single document

By uomatters on 02/06/2015

That would be Tobin Klinger, of course. Today in “Around the 0”. Don’t bother to google it, waste of time. He doesn’t mention GradGate either. When is the administration going to hire someone competent to put out some actual information?

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LibraryGate: What did Doug Park hire Hershner Hunter to investigate?

By uomatters on 02/06/2015

Dave Hubin’s Public Records Office doesn’t seem to want to make that public. So I’ve cced Doug Park on the followup. We’ll see if he’ll oblige. Surely Doug Park and Doug Blandy were careful to put the terms for an important investigation like this in writing. Right? Or were they so afraid that…

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GradGate: Senate to investigate graduate fellowship cuts, missing $11M

By uomatters on 02/05/2015

2/5/2015 update: A reader passes along this Brad Shelton powerpoint, which among other things documents the $1.5M Moffitt to Moffitt transfer: The bottom line though, is that there’s plenty of water in the well. Or at least that’s what Brad Shelton was telling UO’s academic deans in September: I wonder…

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UO hires new Chief Human RO, Nancy Resnick from Humboldt State

By uomatters on 02/05/2015

I went to a couple of the finalist interviews and looked through the resumes. I thought Ms Resnick was the best candidate, and I think this hire is good news for UO: Date: February 5, 2015 at 4:29:40 PM PST From: “Human Resources” <jlgates@uoregon.edu> Subject: Personnel Announcement from Jamie Moffitt,…

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Bargaining Session II: Th, Feb 5.

By uomatters on 02/04/2015

Tobin Klinger, UO’s $115K Deputy Strategic Communicator, has a rather saccharine-sweet report on Session I in “Around the 0”: Maybe the rest of Mr. Klinger’s post has content. I wouldn’t know, I barely made it to the toilet. Jennifer Winters’ report on last week’s Senate meeting is even worse. Some might…

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UO professor goes rogue, posts confidential presidential archives on internet

By uomatters on 02/03/2015

Alea iacta est. I’m posting it all, despite the threats from VPAA Doug Blandy and Barbara Altmann, the claim of Interim President Scott Coltrane that this is unlawful, and the protests of Interim Provost Frances Bronet that it is immoral. I am not saying how I got these archives, and…

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GateGate: Athletic Department to recycle historic WPA faculty gate

By uomatters on 02/02/2015

to make room for yet another Duck sports egofice: The new facility will be named the Jane Sanders Stadium after a UO cheerleader who attended the university in the late 1940s. Diane Dietz has the story in the RG, here. It touches on a lot of interesting UO history. I…

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“What If” UO Public Records released contract showing we blew $1M on 160over90 branders?

By uomatters on 02/02/2015

They won’t of course. The first rule of Dave Hubin’s Public Records office is to delay, redact, and charge out the butt for anything that might conceivably embarrass the Johnson Hall administration, or even just help the public understand what the hell is going on at Oregon’s flagship public university.…

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Dahlia Bazzaz and Alexandra Wallachy podcast LibraryGate – and more

By uomatters on 02/01/2015

A podcast for The Oregon Daily Emerald, here: Emerald reporters Dahlia Bazzaz and Alexandra Wallachy discuss news events from week 4 at the University of Oregon and beyond, including: a leak of 22,000 UO admin. records, … It starts with an excellent summary of the UO presidential archive release. About 7 minutes…

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Digital archivist goes rogue, and wins big in court

By uomatters on 01/30/2015

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has the news: A federal judge today handed open-records activist Carl Malamud a victory in his battle to get the Internal Revenue Service to release Form 990 tax returns in a format that can be read by computers, thus making information about nonprofit operations far more…

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Dave on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1503/06/2026
I retired a few years ago and now live at the base of Mt Shasta. 25 years at UO. Go!…
Jon Boeckenstedt on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1503/05/2026
Best wishes, Bill. I always loved keeping up on the real inside workings of UO while I was at OSU.…
Jeremy Bentham on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1503/03/2026
Can you do the last top 10 posts blog post as a video? I think the kids call them vlogs.…
Cheyney Ryan on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1503/01/2026
Dear Bill, Your Blog has been the U of O's "Democracy Wall", for which we all have been grateful to…
Jennifer Freyd on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1503/01/2026
Dear Bill, Thank you for your service to the UO and higher education more broadly. Your courage, integrity, and persistence…
Mike Haley on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1502/28/2026
Bill, Thank you! You did UO a great service over the years, despite the $h!t the admins put you and…
Bob Keefer on Update: Professor Bill Harbaugh, a.k.a. UO Matters, to retire from UO on March 1502/27/2026
Bill: Congratulations! And welcome to life after journalism. We'll all miss your skeptical attitude toward the University of Nike and…
Boyne on PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL info from UO Foundation reveals huge raises for CEO Paul Weinhold, CFO Kelly Bosch01/07/2026
New financials. New person for a few months and then gone...but paid a lot 150k. Ain't life grrand
DuckDuckGo on PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL info from UO Foundation reveals huge raises for CEO Paul Weinhold, CFO Kelly Bosch12/14/2025
Looks like the fiscal year investment returns were posted, and the foundation came in below the peer group median return…
Boyne on UO Administrators up 18%, tenure track faculty up 2%11/24/2025
UO Foundation just posted thhe tax form. All good news salary wise there.
Where are you? on UO investigator concludes no reasonable person could agree with Dean Adrian Parr Zaretsky11/23/2025
If you're thinking about winding the site down (or even if you're not) I would love to read a retrospective…
Fishwrapper on UO investigator concludes no reasonable person could agree with Dean Adrian Parr Zaretsky11/17/2025
You got out alive, and found a way to thrive. Five and a half years to go for me...