6/25/2013: Sam Stites has the story in the RG: Earlier this month, the UO’s office of marketing and brand management sent out a request for proposals for anyone seeking to manufacture Ducks apparel, requiring a guarantee starting July 1 of a least $500,000 a year in royalties to be paid…
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6/23/2013: That would be the AFT, suing the president of the Marshall University in West Virginia. More here. UO uses similar strategies to stall and prevent release of records, but usually goes for smaller estimates. Unless you’re Nathan Tublitz, and you ask for the records showing how JH administrators justified…
6/24/2013: My original post on my ethics complaint regarding Rudnick, Gary, and Geller here. Some excerpts from the brief submitted by the Oregon DOJ to the Court of Appeals last Monday, arguing for a substantial reduction in HLGR’s $562K legal fees. Big pdf here.
6/24/2013: Or maybe the preferred nomenclature should be “BMW administrative costs”. Thanks to a reader for the link. More here, this data is from IPEDS and does not count the last year or two of new UO administrative excesses. The last column gives “Institutional support” per student FTE. That is the IPEDS category…
6/24/2013: UO is trying to charge UO’s student journalists $240 for a copy of his official calendar, claiming that student names are protected under FERPA as “student records” and they have to pay for Lisa Thornton to go through it and redact them. I’m guessing it’s about 10 names. But…
6/24/2013: Work in progress, suggestions and corrections welcome. UO won’t release the long-term financial projections on which Jamie Moffitt is basing her claims that they can’t afford the union salary proposals, this is my stab at figuring out the situation. Summary: Tuition and fees up $32M for this next year: 2010…
6/23/2013: The faculty union has released the dates that the admin is willing to meet over the summer to get this contract wrapped up. I’m going to miss a few sessions, but I’ll post summaries of all. And of course you can always check out Barbara Altman’s site for the…
6/24/2013: Diane Dietz of the RG had a good story on the Eugene student rental market last year, suggesting overbuilding and falling rents for students. (I’d linked to a plagiarized version of this story earlier. Sorry!) 6/23/2013: It’s an open question as to how necessary they were, but the city of Eugene…
6/22/2013: A small step for the faculty. Very small. Why does the UO Senate Coordinator report to Dave Hubin? Job ad here: Title: Executive Coordinator for the Statutory Faculty and University Senate Department: President’s Office Reports to: Sr. Assistant to the President and the Senate President Salary Range: $38,000 to…
6/22/2013: Two stories from Eder Campuzano in the ODE: Guns … Tuition. How much will the conversion to an armed UOPD cost overall? Frances Dyke told the legislature it would be something like $66K. At one point she told the students and faculty it would save $76K. Jamie Moffitt won’t explain…
6/21/2013: UO’s email servers have been blacklisted because someone was sending spam. As usual, The King has the best explanation of the technical details, or see http://pages.uoregon.edu/status/reports.cgi for the layman’s version, which says you should have got a bounce message if any messages you sent were “returned to sender”. Apparently you can…
6/20/2013: Louise Bishop, English and HC and co-chair of the FAC this past year, defends Gottfredson in an op-ed in the RG here, in reaction Gordon Sayre. 6/13/2013: An Op-Ed in the RG by prof of English and former senate president Gordon Sayre: … We may never know why Lariviere was…
6/21/2013. Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE. Last I looked UO paid the public safety chief more than the City of Eugene paid their police chief. They’re going to get guns too, big surprise. Still no accounting for the explosion in their budget, two years after we were…
6/20/2013: Eder Campuzano has the story in the ODE. Gleason will stay on while they try again.
6/20/2013: “Around the O” has an obituary of Cathleen Leue, longtime UO economics professor and CASIT director, and a wonderful person.