Reporter James Crepea here, with a simple recitation of the facts and numbers: EUGENE — Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens and UO president Michael Schill are among a group of the university’s top administrators taking voluntary pay cuts for at least the next six months — and possibly through the…
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Or, in the parlance of our times, 1.3 Jumbotrons:
I wonder how much Johnson Hall paid the consultant who told them it would be a good idea to have a $150K PR flack moderate this. It seems Moffitt refused to participate, or was disinvited. Her substitutes were not up to the job. The Emerald has some damning quotes here.…
Update 4/2/2020: People have been asking about the voluntary furlough program from 2009. Here is the video of that Town Hall, with my post from back then below. Update 5/11/2009: Nearly a month later, this furlough program seems to have vanished. A few hundred people signed up – many pressured…
The cost of a year of contract extension for these faculty would be roughly $16M, or to put it in terms our Board of Trustees can understand, 1.3 Jumbotrons: Proposal for Career Faculty Job Security Dear Colleague, Earlier this morning, the leadership of United Academics sent the letter below to…
While UO faculty and staff need a hall pass from the dean to visit their office for 30 minutes, egofice construction continues. Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek, here: Oregon’s Construction Industry Is Chugging Along Like It’s Still 2019. Some Workers Say That’s Dangerous. Gov. Kate Brown’s March 23 order did not…
For as far back as I can tell UO and the Duck Athletic Department have split licensing revenues down the middle. It’s *college athletics*. No college, no money for the coaches, and vice versa. So it’s 50/50. (Nothing for the athletes of course, it’s an NCAA rule). This is why…
No one takes the job of Dean without getting some promises from the Provost about money and hiring, in writing. What sort of deals? Let’s find out: From: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]> Subject: Public records request, MOU’s with Deans Date: April 1, 2020 at 12:43:49 AM PDT To: Lisa Thornton <[email protected]>…
Today at 2:30: https://president.uoregon.edu/virtual-town-hall: Submit your questions for UO leadership now using an anonymous webform or emailing [email protected]. You can also submit questions during the live event by emailing [email protected]. Expectations are high: Meanwhile in bathrooms across Eugene, faculty begin their remote lectures with the tools they have on hand:
From the UO Foundation’s IRS 990 form, here: Where does their pay come from? When you give to UO to support our students, the money goes through the Foundation. They take 5% off the top. Do they charge Phil Knight the same percentage for the ~$250M Hayward Field? For the…
No, this is not the one where boomers yell at people running in circles at Hayward Field. This is serious. The RG has the story:
John Canzano has another story about the failure of their Board (consisting of the president’s of the 12 universities) to control the PAC-12’s spending on itself. [CEO Larry Scott, ~$5M a year] directed Gary Stevenson to negotiate an 11-year lease with Kilroy Realty Corporation to secure two floors and 113,000…
An announcement from the OA Council. In case you’re new, the OAs are the people who keep the University from collapsing into chaos: From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: oanews: OA Council COVID-19 updates & outreach Good afternoon, The…
Dear University of Oregon faculty, I wanted to update you with the very latest information about some changes to the grading options for undergraduate courses for spring term 2020, given that the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted our university to a system of remote learning. These are unprecedented times for our…