6/12/2010: There is an article on the latest shifts in athletic conferences in USA Today here, and another on the PAC-16 specifically here. My takeaway is that college football is getting even more profitable, and that players and academics will continue to get nothing from it – so, uh, who…
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6/13/2010: Steve Duin of the Oregonian on the PAC-16: In the Pacific-10’s imminent decision to expand to 16 teams, we have the triumph of gluttony over moderation, crass over class, John Calipari over John Wooden. What’s more, we might have our final proof that the university presidents who have sanctioned…
6/11/2010: Two weeks ago VP for Research Rich Linton was told he would get a terminal contract. Today, rumor has it that Associate Vice President of Research and Director of ORSA Paula Roberts was fired by Provost Jim Bean, and that this was the direct result of pressure from “irate”…
6/9/2010: In November, UO VP for Finance Frances Dyke signed a secret contract with labor relations consultant Stan McKnight for $25,000 to develop UO’s website responding to a faculty unionization effort from the AAUP/AFT. UO kept the contract secret until May, when the GTTF union found out about it. At…
6/11/2010: Larry Galizio was an Oregon state representative who retired mid term 2009 and was given a OUS job by Governor Kulongoski. Harry Esteve of the Oregonian called it payback for supporting a pet Kulongoski bill to stop a development project near some supporters’s vacation homes. Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek…
6/9/2010: I thought Masoli had been kicked off the team after the laptop theft, but I can’t keep them straight anymore. Not sure if possession really should count, but it looks like this will move the Ducks up in the Fulmer Cup rankings. Does Kelly’s contract have a penalty for…
6/9/2010: The Louisiana Higher Ed commissioner has resigned after the Times Picayune caught her in a retirement scam involving double dipping. Legal but sleazy, and she didn’t tell the board what she was going to do. In Oregon, her boss would have helped her set up the scheme and written…
6/9/2010: Still no job ad for a new General Counsel, but Lariviere has followed through on his promise to remove authority for public records requests from the GC’s office and there is an ad for the new job here. The new position will report directly to Lariviere. No salary is…
6/8/2010: This is rumor but we hear President Lariviere is still going to push to raise faculty pay. For full prof’s this is the lowest in the AAU by 10% and is currently at 84% of our “peer institutions.” Most of the raises will go to the full’s as a…
6/6/2010: Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney told the OUS Board the universities can keep the money they have raised from higher enrollments and tuition, but not to expect more autonomy from the state, particularly regarding tuition. More state money is a non-starter. Report by David Sarasohn in the Oregonian. No…
6/6/2010: UO Economist Tim Duy has a sobering Op-Ed in the Oregonian on the state’s budget: … Another lesser known trend is battering the state — the steady decline in average wages relative to the rest of the nation. From 1987 to 1997, average wages increased from 88.9 percent to…
6/5/2010: I have no idea who Duck Soup is, but I agree with him/her: … Briefly, UO is a very low-budget place, an overachiever, but starved too long to have avoided academic decay. However, UO could have reached its supposed faculty salary goals of a decade ago if it had…
6/5/2010: The UO faculty/OA union organizers now have a facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126059310737990 UO Matters is jealous: we have a site too, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126059310737990#!/group.php?gid=123723880990459&v=wall&ref=ts but we can’t figure out how to get it to update automatically from this blog feed.
6/5/2010: The OUS press report on increased tuition and approval of the latest sports project from Phil Knight here. Bill Graves on the tuition increases is here. The Oregonian story by Rachel Bachman on the sports construction is here: As the clock ticked on Friday’s meeting of the State Board…
6/4/2010: Margie Paris hasn’t posted an ad for the General Counsel job yet – 6 weeks after Melinda was fired. And Lariviere is still thinking about who should be on the search committee for the Martinez replacement. But Robin Holmes is making progress on the AD hire: Campus Colleagues: What’s…