In 2006 UO Provost John Moseley retired and was given a 1/2 time $124,000 a year sinecure as Director of UO’s Bend Programs. He wanted this because it allowed him to pad his PERS account and because he has a vacation home on the Deschutes. It turns out he’s been…
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PRESS CLIPPINGS: Margaret Soltan, a frequent commenter on academic issues and a contributor to InsideHigherEd.com writes about us on her blog today: The pun in the blog’s title points to matters of importance on campus (an overpaid president, too many administrators, a sports obsession, a budget crisis, anti-intellectualism, etc.) and…
Back in 2007 University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer’s friends on the Oregon University System Board wanted to give him a raise. So they hired Ray Cotton of the higher ed consulting firm ML Strategies to prepare a report comparing Frohnmayer’s pay with that of his peers. The report is…
Quoting from an email we received from an anonymous reader, regarding a student asking about doing their midterm while traveling to an away game: The team will have to win two matches this weekend tocontinue in the tournament. I’d like to plan as if they will do so. We have…
This March 2008 story in the Oregonian describes how UO administrators have been taking advantage of a tenure reduction program that was originally set up to ease older teaching faculty into voluntary retirement. Several administrators have been able to use the program to take home annual payments in the $300,000…
For discussions regarding the proposed faculty/instructor/administrator union. Our previous union posts are here. The union organizing committee site is here.
For comments regarding general UO Matters: parking, misfeasance, malfeasance, sustainability, diversity, and architecture.
(From May 2009) MEMORANDUMTo: Units receiving ICC beginning budget allocationsFrom: Rich LintonSubject: ICC Beginning Budget Allocations- FY10 ICC- FY10 Beginning Budget The ICC beginning budget for FY10 will be posted in the coming days, and I write to communicate two key decisions regarding the overall allocations effective July 1, 2009.…
ADMIN TEAM DELAYS BARGAINING UNTIL 1PM TODAY, TUESDAY. GLEASON DRIVES OFF, TOLD TO CHECK FOOTBALL PALACE CUSHIONS FOR LOOSE CHANGE: CECIL RALLIES FACULTY FOR 14.5%, OR STRIKE: Bargaining: Tuesday 9/3/2013, 1pm-4pm(?), Room 122 or 101 Knight Library.9:00 AM: Gottfredson meeting with his $100K a month bargaining team: The most recent admin…
Comparator compensation, using equivalent definitions, is roughly $520,000 or $480,000 if you use “all public and private PhD granting”. The President of UC-Berkeley is paid $467,556 plus a house.Dave Frohnmayer gets $662,764 plus a house. $195,208 more than the President of Berkeley? Update 5/14/2009: At yesterday’s Senate meeting Provost Bean…
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-37-Separability.pdf
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-38-Jury-Duty.pdf
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-39-Distribution-of-the-Agreement.pdf
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-36-Strike-Lockout.pdf
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-34-Facilities-and-Support.pdf