3/6/2011: POCATELLO —One of Idaho State University’s major financial donors has some harsh words for both ISU President Arthur Vailas and the State Board of Education about the escalating turmoil on campus. “The president is not there to be supported entirely by students and by faculty,” said James E.…
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3/5/2011: The editorial board’s endorsement is, unfortunately, anything but unqualified: The UO plan is an essential acknowledgment that if Oregon is to have any chance of achieving its ambitious higher education goals, it must get more — much more — private support for its public system. We know the UO…
3/5/2011: The academic side pays $2 million for the Jock Box tutoring, and millions more for other athletic subsidies. Including the $250,000 for our suddenly very busy Public Records Officer, Liz Denecke. But hey – look what the Ducks do for our national reputation! Two mentions in the NY Times…
3/4/2011: I’m as shocked as you to see those words appear together. But it seems Chip Kelly and Rob Mullens Mike Bellotti or Lorraine Davis paid $25,000 in state money to some guy for his help in getting running back Lache Seastrunk to sign with UO. The NCAA is or…
3/4/2011: State energy official Mark Long was accused of helping Cylvia Hayes, Kitzhaber’s girlfriend, get a chunk of a federal grant. If I read this story right, Long’s attorneys Dave Frohnmayer and Bill Gary have now leaked a bunch of documents to the Oregonian, and are now threatening Sean Riddell,…
3/4/2011: From Mark Costigan in the ODE, attacking his lack of transparency: Transparency has been a problem in political and educational administrations nationwide, but Lariviere has demonstrated he has little to no intentions of changing that trend. As we move out of the public sector, this could pose a serious…
3/3/2011: In Indiana. He’s the secretary of state. Turns out this is a felony in Oregon too.
3/3/2011: ORI needs a new building. Fail. UO’s Riverfront Research Park needs to fill one of its many empty sites. Fail. Eugene’s environmentalists need to lose their reputation for ensuring nothing ever gets built here. Fail. UO needs to lose its reputation for sleazy real estate deals. Fail. President Lariviere…
3/2/2011: In testimony at the legislature yesterday President Lariviere raised the stakes and then called Pernsteiner’s bluff, adding a 5% in-state tuition cap to his new partnership plan. He can do this because his plan includes a fixed state contribution, large new private donations, and a workable strategy for getting…
3/1/2011: Somehow it’s not surprising to learn that he’s got yet another career. The manatee bit though – OK, that was totally unexpected. But how many are we talking: 10? A hundred? 10 thousand?
3/1/2011: The alumni foundation has a pretty slick website as well. From Inside Oregon: According to the poll’s results, 70 percent of respondents support the creation of dedicated, locally-based governing boards for each of the state’s public universities, as proposed in Senate Bill 559. Also, 71 percent favored allowing universities…
3/1/2011: In response to a comment. Student numbers are up 10% since 2005. The Public Safety budget has doubled. (Ignore the parking component, it includes revenues.) Now they want a dog, too.
2/28/2011: Doug Kelderman of Insidehighered.com has a long story on the debate there, which involves many of the same issues as in Oregon. Including two competing legislative proposals, one from the state higher ed system, one from UW-Madison.
The payout from their $410 million endowment is 3% a year, or about $12 million. Here’s where a bunch of it goes. They’ve got more recent data on their new president Paul Weinhold’s salary – but he won’t release it. I’m guessing $350,000, $380,000 with benefits.
2/28/2010: Bill Graves has a piece in the Oregonian, raising more questions about Pernsteiner and Treetops – but focusing on consolidating OUS into one location. Pernsteiner still isn’t letting anyone inside to take photos. But he is now admitting he spends “a little less” time at Treetops than at his…