5/8/2009: Note: on 5/26/2009 we got this comment on this post and it sounds pretty knowledgeable. We’ve left the original post up, but take it with a grain of salt. “This is a very carefully sliced history. A more balanced view with a baseline from a few years ago: We…
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From: “Leith David” [email protected]: May 11, 2009 9:15:32 PDTTo: Professor XSubject: RE: Professor X, I want to provide a clear statement of what we are willing to do. I hope this will minimize the possibility of misunderstanding or surprise, and that it will give you the information you need to…
WWeek, Frohnmayer rogue of week for hiding public recordshttp://wweek.com/editorial/2008/04/23/dave-frohnmayer/
Rachel Bachman at the Oregonian does a good job getting the facts out: 5/9/2009: End of Kilkenny Era Someone should start filing some public records requests on this stuff – starting with the highly unlikely claim that the Athletic Department’s books are balanced. It would be a simple matter to…
The UO Foundation is a non-profit established to raise and manage money for UO. Non-profit status means it must report some information to the IRS. Here are copies of the UO Foundation’s IRS 990 forms. These explain assets, administrative salaries, and give some hints about how the Foundation spends money.…
UO’s new President Richard Lariviere takes office 7/1. We hear very good things about him from people we trust. He has a few less than two a months to decide how to fix UO. Don’t let him get all his information from the usual suspects. Email him at [email protected], and…
posted 5/3/09 Federal regulations require UO to prepare and update it’s Affirmative Action plan every year. At UO, AAEO Director Penny Daugherty never does this and President Frohnmayer then backdates the plans to make it look like we are in compliance. If you are filing an AA complaint, this is…
Update 5/31/2009: Greg Bolt has an article in the RG on overcomittment problems at UO. Diversity VP Charles Martinez comes in for special attention. Martinez’s off campus job is at the Oregon Social Learning Center. By running his NIDA grants through OSLC he has been able to do an end-run…
5/14/09 Update: Nathan Tublitz’s UO Senate motion for a bit of financial transparency passed on an unanimous voice vote with a few minor amendments. The argument was over when a Senator said to Frohnmayer: “You are asking us to give up our pay to help out UO. We deserve to…
At Oregon State there are none. OSU’s VP for Finance Mark McCambridge has posted all financial information to the web – every single transaction. See https://bfpsystems.oregonstate.edu/webreporting/ (10/7/2009: now apparently restricted to OSU IP addresses.) Quoting from the Inside Higher Ed news story: Since the university already maintained a central database…
The question on the table is should you take the furlough? The senior administrators who are pushing the furlough earn 100% of their peers and recently spent $2.4 million remodeling their own offices. Our president who just got a $150,000 raise, has signed up his retiring VP’s for golden parachute…
Update: 5/14/2009 : Provost Bean’s claims on Bend have morphed from “we are slightly in the black” when asking the faculty for furlough contributions to “we’ve lost millions but we will almost break even next year – if no one notices we are keeping everything possible including Moseley’s salary off…
UPDATE: As of 5/15/2009, no response from Provost Bean on this:Sent to Provost Bean 4/19/2009: Dear Provost Bean: At the Furlough town hall you asked faculty to email this address if they had questions. This one regards the budget for UO-Portland. At the meeting you explained that much of the…