Someone’s having fun at the legislative session. Courtesy of Hannah Hoffman of the SJ. Never heard of this guy, but from the video, he’s an economist – and he’s got a sense of humor. What are the odds? 3/12/2013.
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This is from the “Financial Transparency Tool” which you can access through duckweb, off the employee tab. If you drill down you’ll see that this growth over the past 5 years for “University Relations” – which amounts to $4 million a year in recurring costs over the 2008 level –…
3/11/2013: Director, Public Affairs & President’s Office Communications Public and Government AffairsCloses: Open until filled; application review begins April 2, 2013Salary: $60,000 to $85,000
3/10/13 update: RG story on a program by CS professor Kiki Prottsman. Here’s a link to her Thinkersmith.org program. … For Prottsman — a computer science professor at the University of Oregon, where she earned her master’s in the same discipline in 2011 — this early exposure to computer science and…
That’s an argument UO’s SAIL program has been making for 7 years now. The NYT reports it is gaining traction, because racial preferences have reduced SES diversity at elite colleges: In fact, race plays a role unlike almost any other factor. An African-American student with a similar application to a…
would he? NYT: Harvard secretly searched the e-mail accounts of several of its staff members last fall, looking for the source of news media leaks about its recent cheating scandal, but did not tell them about the searches for several months, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday. Under…
It seems possible. Now that’s muckraking. 3/9/13.
3/9/2013: You can’t make this shit up. Full announcement here. No details in the docket, of course.
3/8/2013: Back in 2009 the NCAA Committee on Infractions, which includes UO’s Faculty Athletics representative and former Knight law professor Jim O’Fallon, ruled that UConn had paid impermissible benefits to a basketball player, Nate Miles: NCAA enforcer Jim O’Fallon NCAA player Nate Miles INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Committee…
3/8/13: Thanks to the ever curious Nathan Tublitz, here’s the list of UO employees who got free Rose Bowl tickets in 2012. 635 total tickets. (It took 3 months for Dave Hubin’s public records office to release the records.) Street price was about $1700 a pop for last year, according…
From “Around the O”. Redding was the architect of the New Partnership Plan and a very important figure in the independent board proposal going through the legislature now: Michael Redding, vice president of university relations at the University of Oregon, announced today (March 7) that he has accepted a position at…
12/14/12: And what’s it costing us? Long story. The short version, with my opinion? The UO administration’s current lead negotiator, Sharon Rudnick, (from Dave Frohnmayer’s firm, HLGR) was originally hired by Interim UO President Bob Berdahl to fight faculty unionization.(That’s my opinion – under state law UO has to officially…
Postmortem: My take on the pity raise proposal: Bunsis beats Moffitt with a TKO after his simple question got her so flustered she left the room. Good faculty turnout, I got $30 on cover charges so far, thanks. Bunsis presentation slides are here, video soon. Takeaway? OUS says UO should have…
3/6/2013: In June 2009, the news broke in the University of Missouri student newspaper that their faculty were paid the second least in the AAU: A recently released study done by the American Association of University Professors reports MU salaries for ranked professors second to last out of 34 public…
3/6/2013: Lots of talk today about how the faculty should respond to Gottfredson’s 2% merit pay ultimatum. This 2% will be our total merit pay increase for what, the past 5 years, plus the next 2? It’s been so long I’ve forgotten. I think that works out to about $120…