8/3/2010: From the Volokh Conspiracy, word on a potentially important circuit court decision imposing strict limits on when universities can charge controversial speakers for security. I don’t know if this will affect what UO does, e.g. with Pacifica Forum.
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8/3/2010: The 19 AAU schools with the lowest federal research funding, out of the 63 members: And we already know full prof salaries are 84% of our peers. So where does UO excel? In the percentage of our budget that goes to Central Administration. They cost us 96% of the…
8/2/2010: Update from Emily Gillespie in the RG: One of the most contentious issues is health care coverage. In previous contracts, the University has covered 100 percent of teaching fellows’ health insurance. This time, the university is asking fellows to pay 10 percent of those costs, citing the rising costs…
8/2/2010: The details of the OUS system’s proposed restructuring plan are becoming clearer. From their Governance and Policy Planning Committee website. They are not proposing to give up much control to UO!: …3. Board will seek new legal status with state that differs from that of a state agency.…9. Tuition…
8/2/2010: If we are reading the report right, Academic Affairs has actually managed to shrink it’s administrative budget, from $1.15M in 2008 to $1.05M in 2010. Congratulations!
8/1/2010: The job ad says apply by 7/8 for full consideration, but there’s still no sign that UO has managed to find a taker for the General Counsel position. It’s now more than three months since Melinda Grier was fired. Meanwhile Doug Park is getting a $1400 stipend tacked onto…
7/30/2010: More from “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS. Looking at UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. We spend: $2,347 on Central administration. 96% of the average…
7/29/2010: Stefan Verbano has a piece in the ODE on the new 153 slot parking lot UO will build to replace the space athletics took for the Jock Box. The city has decided to extend the public comment period another week: The Campus Planning and Real Estate website lists the…
7/29/2010: UO’s research expenditures are 63% of the nat’l public research U average. And our true spending priorities are revealed once more: We’ve written once or twice before about how Charles Martinez can’t find time to do his job as UO’s Diversity Vice President. Because he’s got another job on…
7/28/2010: The OUS Governance and policy committee takes up several issues at its meeting tomorrow, including more discussion on competing restructuring proposals (they call theirs “the compact”), and also “IMD Changes Stemming from Athletics Issues”. The link includes minutes from last month, with a long discussion on the proposals, quite…
7/28/2010: Ryan Buckley had a story on the end of Bend a few days back, that I missed. He managed to get both current Provost Jim Bean and former Provost John Moseley to speak on the record: “The statements that some faculty have made that the program was ‘costing UO…
7/27/2010: From former SUNY Provost Peter Salins: … This bill would allow the state’s two public university systems, the City University of New York and the State University of New York, to set their own tuition rates and give them the freedom to raise additional revenue to compensate for the…
7/27/2010: With some help we are now digging into “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs” data mentioned earlier. The comparisons between UO and other schools are pretty shocking. This is not just a case of too little money – it’s what we spend the money on. Hint: it’s not…
7/26/2010: A commenter points us to “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS. Here’s one quick cut: UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. (See below for category definitions…
7/26/2010: Sure enough, Nike folds and pays the back wages themselves, according to Steven Greenhouse in the NY Times. Though they can’t quite bring themselves to admit that: A Nike spokeswoman, Kate Meyers, said Monday that the $1.5 million was for “a worker relief fund” and was not for severance.…