11/10/13, 10:31 PM update: The Wall Street Journal reports that the “fictitious” University Of Nike has moved to Alabama. Ouch. Still no denial from U of Nike spokesperson Jeff Hawkins. Buy on the rumor, sell on the news. T-shirts here. 11/10/2013, 12:31 PM: The Ducks lose a game, and our fickle…
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11/7/2013: Very interesting column in the Chronicle, by a Dean who reports being blind-sided by a faculty vote of no-confidence, which was followed by his firing. UO needs an evaluation system for its senior administrators so they can get useful feedback from the faculty, before things get to this level.…
11/7/2013: We spend 15% of our budget on the jocks, Stanford spends 2%. Altitude thanks to an anon commenter. First inning starts at 6PM, I think they play a full 18 holes. Meanwhile back in Eugene, a professor from UO’s law school, and chair of the Senate committee charged with…
11/7/2013: Letter from President Gottfredson and Interim Provost Coltrane to faculty, on benchmarking and a new academic plan. The links include documents shared with the new UO Board. Presumably they will soon announce efforts to involve the Senate and Union leadership. Dear Colleagues, As a comprehensive research university and a…
11/6/2013: Lauren Messman has the story in the Eugene Weekly, complete with interesting data:
11/5/2013: Whoops sorry. It’s a pair of Duck *players* that were selling basketball shoes. Totally unacceptable for players to earn any money from big-time college sports. That’s for the boosters like Knight, and the coaches like Dana Altman – whose $1.8M contract gives him plenty of shoe money: Jim O’Fallon’s…
11/4/2013: During his first year in office President Gottfredson earned the ire of the Oregon Commentator and the Student Press Law Center by trying to charge hundreds of dollars to see copies of his official calendar – and then not letting students use student funds to pay the bill. In…
11/4/2013: The final contract is now posted on the UAUO website, here.
11/4/2013: Alando Ballantyne has the story, here.
11/4/2013 goat update: “Other professional services.” You gotta love OSU. From their Oregon Transparency expenditure report: 11/3/13: UO Goat Wranglers report – raises and retroactive payments will be in the Nov and Jan paychecks: (from the admin fact-check site): Implementing the salary provisions of the contract is one of the…
11/3/13: Alan Brettman of the Oregonian has the story: The University of Oregon is exploring the creation of a sporting goods product-management program at its Portland campus, addressing what officials believe is a glaring need for the footwear and apparel-dominated local industry. Ellen Schmidt-Devlin, who worked for nearly three decades…
11/2/2013: When the Dalai Lama came to speak at UO this spring, I was told by several Chinese undergraduates that they were afraid to go, because they believed that the Chinese government had informers among the students, who would report them. One said he would go anyway, but only because…
Update: 10/31/13: State auditors ask UO to seek repayment from former Provost Bean, over $244K pay for a job with no job description or AA compliant search. Nah, just kidding. Those rules are for the little people. Former Interim Provost Jim Bean hasn’t had to repay anything – he’s getting more…
10/31/13: Like a fool, I upgraded to Mavericks last week. Lots of problems using apple mail with gmail. I’ve gone through the suggested fixes, still having trouble. If you are having similar problems, I suggest calling UO’s General Counsel Randy Geller‘s helpline at 541-346-3082, since he thinks UO should own everything…
10/29/13: In the Oregonian: I remember walking in from fall camp practice and talking to my teammates about how similar our lives were to the TV series Spartacus. We were slaves. We were paid enough to live, eat, and train… And nothing more. We went out on the field where…