8/5/2013 update: Word around the faculty club poker table is that Gottfredson has doubled down on his Espy bet. Should I call or raise?7/12/2013 update: Sorry, very sorry. Alabama has just announced the search failed, and they’re keeping their interim Provost on for another 18-24 months instead. Maybe Nebraska will take…
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8/15/2013: Refreshingly open, transparent, and even updated in real-time: Oh wait, sorry, that’s for Oregon State. If you’re curious about research activity at UO, you’ll have to wade through a bunch of outdated pdf’s, here. Or you could make a public records request to UO for emails on our AAU…
8/14/2013 update: Oregon’s public record situation is also worse than Lousiana’s: A Louisiana university was found in contempt of court Wednesday for its failure to produce records related to its recent presidential search. The order of contempt — and $500 per day fine that accompanied it — is the latest in a…
8/14/2013: I will be very surprised if Oregon’s public records law actually allows UO to completely redact the job assignment for an employee receiving an $192,278 salary, at an 0.55 FTE: Full pdf here. While “The University” refuses to give faculty modest child-care allowances for attending talks and dinners with…
8/14/2013 update: Finally got one page from Geller’s office on HLGR billing issues, in which Rudnick’s firm promises to be more vigilant in the future. 6/23/2013. Surely someone in Randy Geller’s GC office has responsibility for looking over the billable hours, checking productivity, asking questions about the inevitable little mistakes…
8/13/2013: Priceless. Watch Rob Mullens’s “Duck, Duck, Money” video interview with CNBC here.
8/13/2013: Just kidding, that’s how much Athletic Director Rob Mullens is paying the Nicholls State University Colonels football team to show up in Autzen and lose to the Ducks, 4 weeks before the UO students even show up for classes. Vegas has Oregon by 51 points. College sports at its…
Senior Scientist – Economics Pandora – Oakland (San Francisco Bay Area) Job Description At Pandora we have a single mission: To play only the music you’ll love. (Okay, we’ve added comedy as well – so we’re also up for playing some jokes you’ll love). … Requirements Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline…
8/12/2013 update: The Daily Emerald is trying to use Dave Hubin’s public records office to get to the bottom of things: Strategic Communication emails Requester: Crump, JakeOrganization: Oregon Daily EmeraldInitial Request Date: 08/12/2013 Status: Requesting/Reviewing Records To view any and all emails dated Aug. 1 through Aug. 11, between UO…
8/11/2013: Knight’s embarrassingly gaudy tax-deductible football “Sweat Shop” has become an instant national joke. The letters and comments in the local papers are also running heavily in the “WTF?” direction. Today RG columnist Bob Welch tries to make some sense of it: … Allow me, then, amid flashing light sabers,…
8/9/2013: From an extensive interview with Larry Scott by former UO student Allie Grasgreen, in IHE: There’s obviously already a big concern, especially among the academics we write for, about the escalation of spending and the so-called arms race, and Oregon’s new football building is a good example of that.…
8/9/2013: In the NYT. The Opry never let her sing the 1972 song she really earned it for – here’s a version from 1995:
8/8/2013: Colleagues: It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Terry L. Hunt as Dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. Terry comes to us from Hawaii, where he served as the Director of the University of Hawai`i Honors Program with responsibility…
8/7/2013: From Reuters: … It said it was charged “arbitrary and excessive” fees to find the records and told further fees would be assessed for lawyers to review and segregate the records before release, the union said in a statement on Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed on July 25 in Multnomah County…
8/7/2013: Want to get a copy of the Duck game contracts? Less than 24 hours turnaround, and no fee: Nicholls State Game ContractRequester: Stites, SamOrganization: Register GuardInitial Request Date: 08/06/2013Status: Records ProvidedRequest Completion Date: 08/06/2013a request for the “football game contract” or other similar document or documents between the University…