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…
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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…
6/4/2010: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a new story on the latest sports facility craziness here. This seems to be another “gift that keeps on taking,” like the Jock Box: But Phit’s gift does not come without costs. The license agreement requires the university to employ a facilities manager,…
6/3/2010: The OUS Board typically has one faculty member. The new appointment is Lynda Ciuffetti, Botany and Plant Pathology at OSU. Her research “…is in the area of host-pathogen interactions, specifically, interactions involving fungal pathogens.” That should give her a lot of extra insight into the OUS Chancellor and Board’s…
6/2/2010: Greg Bolt of the RG has a story on the Jerry Lidz resignation, here, suggesting Frohnmayer deserved more of the blame for the Bellotti payoff than he got. Which was none. Meanwhile the lawyers are in an uproar over Lidz – this is the third of AG Kroger’s top…
6/1/2010: This is stunning news from Nigel Jaquiss at Willamette Week. (Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has more here.) Oregon Solicitor General General Jerry Lidz has given AG John Kroger two weeks notice. This is fallout from Lariviere’s firing of Melinda Grier: Lidz is her husband. After the Bellotti verbal…
5/30/2010: over public records. UO has a press release here: A new Office of Public Records will be established at the University of Oregon June 1, in a key step toward fulfilling President Richard Lariviere’s pledge to make the university as responsive, open and transparent as possible. Brian Smith, the…
5/30/2010: Alan Scher Zagier of the AP writes on what happens to NCAA division I scholarship players if the coach decides he/she wants them off the team. They lose all their funding, and if they want to finish their degree and are out of state, they pay out of state…