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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…
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…
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…
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(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…