7/10/2010: The OUS Board met Friday. They haven’t followed the state rules about posting minutes of their meetings since December 2005, but a summary is here, and a Bill Graves report in the Oregonian here. Some excerpts from the summary: Biennial Budget Request… The General Fund request for the CSL…
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7/9/2010: Here‘s an interesting NY Times story related to a SUNY restructuring plan that the NY Governor has proposed, and a $150 million gift from a donor, contingent on the state accepting the plan: “We’re not prepared at the moment to state any particular number, but it will be an…
7/9/2010: What do undergraduates do? Economists report that average study time per week fell from 24 hours in 1961 to 14 in 2003. (Babcock has a bunch of other interesting looking papers.) Here’s a breakdown by major: My understanding is that students should have about 2 hours of assigned work…
7/6/2010: Stefan Verbano of the Daily Emerald has a story on a new UO parking lot. Enjoy: In addition to boosting parking spaces in the area, the new lot will also indirectly benefit the surrounding community by incorporating permeable asphalt paving and a large drainage course called a bioswale to help…
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them …. I particularly like how the bongo drummer stands at attention.
7/2/2010: Rich Linton is a finalist for the VP for Research job at PSU. Thanks to a reader for the tip. Their admirably transparent search info is here. His cover letter says: If there is any concern about my changing allegiances within the State of Oregon, I will speak most…
6/29/2010: Here’s a little more info on parking revenues. My understanding is that this is before the new 33% increase in faculty/staff fees, from $300 to $400, which takes effect in the 2010-2011 FY. I’ve been here for long enough that average nominal faculty compensation has almost doubled. Parking fees…
6/30/2010: From KVAL. Seems minor but classes are moved for smoke damage.
6/30/2010: At Xavier, from Insidehighered.com: Two decades ago, Xavier University could only count on three of every four freshmen returning for sophomore year. Even fewer made it to graduation. Today, though, close to 9 of every 10 students who start freshman year at the Jesuit university in Cincinnati make it…
6/29/2010: UO’s 2010 parking plan is here, a summary is posted here. Some abstracts: The East Campus Residence Hall project is the most recent project that will affect the parking supply east of campus. It will displace roughly 300 parking spaces in the Bean Hall parking lot (large parking lot…
6/29/2010: A helpful reader sent some actual data on the costs of the underground arena parking and how they will split between the athletic department and the academic side. Not sure if this is current. (Click to enlarge.) 6/22/2010: The latest increase in faculty/staff parking fees (from $300 to $400,…
6/26/2010: Les Zaitz has a long story in the Oregonian today about AG John Kroger. Very mixed reviews, mostly involving his political ambitions. This part struck home: … he also has refused to release the record of his agency’s examination of Mike Bellotti’s unwritten employment deal as the University of…
6/28/2010: From Bill Graves in the Oregonian, last week: Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s order for state budget cuts this week puts Oregon in jeopardy of losing a half billion dollars in federal stimulus money for education. State leaders say they will make sure that doesn’t happen. But that means they either…
6/25/2010: From Dana Tims in the Oregonian: A sagging national economy, paired with distributors’ moves to drop even established Oregon wine accounts, means all of the new wine coming into the pipeline now must be sold in-state — an unlikely prospect given that the number of Oregon wineries has roughly…
6/25/2010: The OUS Board’s Governance and Policy Committee met yesterday to consider increasing the independence of the institutions by appointing university specific boards and ceding power to them. This is a key compenent of Pres Lariviere’s restructuring plan. Their meeting materials are here. Presumably this committee will make a report…