9/9/2013 update: Note that I am not requesting attorney notes, just transcripts taken by a UO non-attorney stenographer: Summarizing, I am requesting that the District Attorney order UO to release what I believe are transcripts, or very close to transcripts, taken by a university employed non-attorney, of meetings that were…
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9/9/2013: An adamant state judge sternly warned the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors on Monday that it faces possible imprisonment if it does not immediately comply with her more than four-month-old order to make public the records of its secret presidential search…. Clark ruled Aug. 14 that the board…
Negotiations between the union and the administration resume at 1PM Tuesday, Room 122 or 101 in the library. If you care about this stuff, I suggest you show up. 9/9/2013 update #2: The take from the administration’s bargaining update pages? Article 52: Outside ActivitiesWe presented the Union with a counterproposal…
9/9/2013: Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer’s 2009 termination contract guaranteed him a number of interesting perks, including: That “graduate assistant” is pretty well paid: More history here.
I’ll try and remember to keep this updated as the football season progresses. Next game is the Tennessee Volunteers. Faculty salary averages for fall 2012, from the Chronicle/AAUP data:
9/6/2013: Looks like Jamie Moffitt is still hiding the subsidies for the underground Matt Court Arena garage and the athlete-only lot in the parking fees for faculty and staff: $384 for 12 months. Too rich for your blood? A commenter suggests an alternative:
Friday 9AM – 4PM, 9/6/2013 122 Knight Library. SRO, but maybe not enough to force Rudnick to allow a move to the nicer 101 room. Live Blog disclaimer: These are my opinions of what people said or meant or should have said. Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. If you don’t…
9/5/2013: President Gottfredson has a nice full professor’s salary to fall back, just in case his president gig at $540K doesn’t work out. His $360K fallback is about 250% of the AAU public average for sociology full professors: The rest of UO’s full professors are currently at 82% of the…
9/5/2013: At the Tuesday bargaining session I publicly ridiculed Journalism Tim Gleason, VP for Academic Affairs Doug Blandy, and former tobacco attorney, now lead administration negotiator Sharon Rudnick and their proposal to give every faculty member $350 as a contract signing bonus. I said this was enough money to buy…
9/5/2013 update: The data I just bought from President Gottfredson’s public records office includes salary, but not extra stipends taken as salary or other compensation. These are reported every three months in the quarterly reports on UO’s Institutional Research page here. (Stipends that faculty use to support research and teaching…
9/4/2013: Excellent report in Insidehigered.com, from former ODE reporter Allie Grasgreen, on the latest effort to pressure university presidents to take control back from athletics departments. Also check out the Ry Rivard story on lack of confidence by presidents in their boards: Only 20 percent of public four-year college presidents…
Page down for live-blog, 9/3/2013. Next session Friday, I think 9AM – 4PM. Be there. Wrap-up: UO’s faculty union bargaining team has played President Gottfredson’s lead negotiator Sharon Rudnick like a screechy fiddle. She has insisted since March that there was no more money, beyond her initial 10.5% offer. The union…
9/3/2013: Randy Geller is only now releasing the tapes, in response to a public records request. You bet I’ve got another ethics complaint brewing. It seems there’s been a lot of questionable behavior inside the President’s office, and the secret football recruiting video will raise many new questions with Jim…
9/2/2013: Another UO alum’s letter, with response from President Gottfredson – a month later. Note this predates the “University of Nike” piece in the NYT. I’m happy to post more of these, just email them to uomatters at gmail.com. From: [ ]Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:01 PMTo: President GottfredsonSubject: Trash…
9/2/2013: I did not know that.