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…
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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…
6/24/2010: From the union website: United academics of the UO in the pursuit of forming a union for campus faculty have hired new staff to accelerate and capitalize on the growing support on the campus. David Cecil has been hired at United Academics as the lead organizer. Cecil has been…
6/22/2010: UO has posted a job ad for Dean of the Law School. I hadn’t heard anything about Margie Paris leaving. She was appointed as interim Dean after a 2006 search gone bad, but I thought it became a permanent position for her in 2008. Does anyone know what’s up?…
6/22/2010: In the NYTimes, Stanley Fish is outraged over what’s happening in Texas: Now an entire state is on the brink of implementing just that bite-sized style of teaching under the rubric of “customer satisfaction.” … the plan calls for college and university teachers to contract with their customers —…
6/21/2010: Ever since Kilkenny dropped wrestling for cheerleading, it’s been obvious that the courts would have to decide this issue someday. Insidehighered.com links to this story, arguments begin today in US District Court in CT: A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a…
6/21/2010: This has nothing to do with UO, but how often do you get to hyperlink to a newspaper called The Log Cabin Democrat? University of Central Arkansas faculty and non-classified employees will not see the pay increase of 2.2 percent originally pledged to them at a May meeting of…
6/20/2010: The PAC-n expansion is way outside my area of expertise. You’d need a PhD in economics to understand if there’s even a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium to this game. Rob Moseley has a good piece in today’s RG. Maybe it’s sour grapes, but the quotes from former UO AD…