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.…
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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…
Why is this Blog anonymous? Because people who speak up at UO get hammered down. Bang, bang, bang and bang. So post all your comments and news tips here – they are completely anonymous, even to us. Please post all your comments at the link at the bottom. Comments don’t…
At the furlough meeting Provost Bean told us that UO’s administrative expense ratio was 38% of peers. See his reply to the question at 50:20 in the video. This number was repeated in Greg Bolt’s RG story about the meeting. This issue matters because the admin need to have some…
Senior administrators at UO earn 100% of their comparators.President Frphnmayer earns $150,000 more than his comparators.UO Faculty earn 83% of their comparators.We’ve taken voluntary cuts for years. When Frohnmayer and the VPs have given back enough salary to get down to 83% like us, we should have a serious conversation.
In theory it’s easy to get public records from UO. Public records includes every paper or electronic record – including emails – produced with university resources. State law is very clear: these are public property and are to be given to anyone who cares to see them, though agencies can…
6/5/2009 update: The Union effort seems to be gaining momentum. They have hired additional organizers and that suggests they believe they have the potential to win an election. During Frohnmayer’s years faculty salaries have gone nowhere, while administrative salaries, spending, and distractions like athletics, Bend, Portland, and so on have…