Gary Gray has held the job for years. They’ve just posted an ad for a replacement. Meanwhile, still no news on the Kelly/Lyles penalties, or who will pay them. 5/6/2013.
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5/6/2013: President Michael Gottfredson invites UO faculty and staff to join him for an informal gathering and discussion of the University of Oregon’s governance structure as a public university within the state of Oregon. University officials who have helped shape pending legislation that would authorize institutional boards, and who have…
I didn’t think he could do it. He does sneak in a little twitter though. 5/5/2013.
5/4/2013: The university has successfully concluded an open national search for a new VP for Finance and Administration. The president reports to the faculty: “Our former VPFA did an exemplary job of helping keeping the university on a sound financial footing in a difficult economic environment and doing so in a…
5/3/2013: UO tuition increases. Diane Dietz reports in the RG on UO’s proposed 6% tuition and fee increase. That’s at least $15M in new tuition revenue on top of the the $29M or so from last year. The union wage proposal costs about $25M, but not until 2014-15. From OUS: And…
5/2/2013: Sad finale: Harris arrested again, with more pot and a gun, and is cut from the NY Jets. 22 years old. Presumably Mullens thinks his new random pot testing rule will prevent this from happening again at UO. Or, according to columnist John Canzano, give him cover to claim he…
5/2/2013: That’s the question UO’s feckless administrative bargaining team has raised at the table. As it happens there’s a new paper on college admissions from Doug Chung at the HBS, coming out in Management Science, that is relevant. Quick version? I further find that when a school goes from being mediocre…
5/1/13, Some good news. Here’s hoping he got some commitments from Gottfredson on reforms as part of the deal. For the nostalgic, here are the FIVE BIG IDEAS, here’s Lorraine Davis’s To Do list for Bean when he returned from sabbatical last May, and from July 2012, here’s Bean’s promise to get…
From Nigel Jaquiss in Willamette Week, On HB 3524, introduced in the Oregon House today by Democrat Brent Barton: Provides that a coach at public university who intentionally or recklessly commits or causes to be committed major violation of rules of National Collegiate Athletic Association is liable for university’s actual…
Call me old-fashioned. I thought it was a trifle déclassé for our athletic department to sell Duck women’s soccer shorts on the internet – complete with a certificate of authenticity. But it must have helped cover Kelly’s bonuses. Now they’re selling tickets to the cheerleader tryouts for $5: I guess this is safe for…
4/30/2013: Recently in the ODE, Sami Edge on Sharon Rudnick’s exuberant legal billings: According to a billing statement revealed last Thursday on the UO Matters blog, the university has paid more than $300,000 to the Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C. law firm in legal fees over the last year. Sharon…
Sharon Rudnick, when delivering the administration’s counter-offer last week: “You can argue whatever you want. This is what it is. This is our best offer. You can make all the accusations you want.” The union’s slightly more temperate response: Our proposal would redirect 2% of the university’s total operating budget by…
4/29/2013: That’s my read of this AP story: … The school had previously insisted it would continue to pursue acrobatics and tumbling despite the ruling. But on Friday, it backed away from that position. “The court has ruled that acrobatics and tumbling is not in their view an approved NCAA…
4/28/2013: Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian reports on the tradeoff: Oregon operates the second-most-expensive public preschools in the nation, at a cost of more than $8,500 per child for a half-day, Head Start-like program, according to a study released Sunday night. Partly because of the high costs, the state has to…
From the NYT: … consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with income of $15,000. These incomes are at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the income distribution nationally, meaning that 10 percent of children today grow up in families with…