7/1/2011: From Yahoo Sports: In a wide-ranging, multi-day interview, Lyles said Kelly “scrambled” in late February and asked Lyles to submit retroactive player profiles to justify the $25,000 payment to his company, just days before the transaction was revealed in a March 3 Yahoo! Sports report. … “I look back…
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7/1/2010: Over the last several years UO has raised parking fees by hundreds of dollars, to subsidize construction of the Matt Court garage and the Jock Box athlete-only lot. Today they announced they are lowering the faculty/staff fee from $400 to $384. Big whoop.
7/1/2011: It’s getting harder and harder for the NCAA to enforce their rule that only white people get to make money off college sports. Bill Rhoden says in the NYT, about Ohio State: This violated N.C.A.A. rules. But the biggest rule it violated was an unwritten one: that the only…
6/30/2011: Today the SEIU staff union hold a lunchtime rally about their bargaining situation. UO is flush with money – read the Bunsis report for details. The state is broke. Unfortunately, the UO staff union bargains with the state, not with UO. So the contract they get is very likely…
6/29/2011: (revised, corrected to note existence of the old rules and the fact that they are also illegal) At some universities it’s automatic. At the University of Montana, it’s apparently subject to the petty whims of the faculty. The UO Senate approved new rules in 2010, but the entire package…
6/29/2011: Sending popular Portland blogger bojack.org this takedown notice was not the brightest move.
6/29/2011: Just after Kitzhaber signs SB909, Harry Esteve reports Nancy Golden is leaving as Kitzhaber’s education advisor. It was a temporary job from the beginning, so it’s a little odd he doesn’t have an immediate replacement in mind.
6/28/2011: From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian: The Oregon Legislature has dealt a serious blow to plans for building a world class “sustainability center” at Portland State University. … “There are a multitude of concerns,” said House co-Speaker Bruce Hanna, R-Roseburg. Top among them, he said, is that the building…
6/28/2011: From the Voice of America. I didn’t realize they had survived the end of the cold war. The videos are just fascinating, and not simple. Great questions, some plausible answers, tough followups. Impressive on both sides. A lesson for US reporters. But keep thinking about his $140 million Paris…
6/28/2011: UO’s Athletic Director Rob Mullens claims the Ducks are self supporting and don’t take any money from the state or the academic general fund. USA Today got the spending data from most Division I schools via public records requests. They report the Ducks took $2.6 million last year, up…
6/28/2011: The Koch Foundation’s academic grants – which come with many strings – are in the news again, Dan Berrett has an excellent piece in Insidehighered.comhttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/06/28: It concludes with this: The best way to safeguard a university’s interests and commitment to academic freedom is to be clear about expectations up…
6/27/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a good story with some analysis. Saul Hubbard of the RG has some good quotes here. You can get a pdf of SB909 here, and of SB242 here. (In these pdf’s the bold parts are new law, the italic parts are deletions of…
6/27/2011: From the David Leonhart NYT piece (thanks to marginalrevolution.com). Presumably the increasing payoffs to college arise from the fact that the economic payoff to being able to explain the difference between correlation and causation to your boss peaks at age 50.
6/26/2011: The Oregon Daily Emerald editors shred President Lariviere’s proposal to give Jefferson HS students free tuition: Though we appreciate the effort and applaud the attempt to aid in Oregon’s ailing public education system, there are significant problems with the proposal and certain planks of it make for a sad…
but instead our administration is spending the tuition increase on the new UO Police force: John Hawley, Director of Administrative Services in the Department of Public Safety (DPS), wishes to announce an interim appointment within the Administrative Services unit of DPS. The Campus Policing Initiative has been passed by the…