9/20/2017: Around the O has the puff piece here, from PR flack Tobin Klinger. You’d think UO’s $475K budget for “Executive Communications” would buy a few more facts – maybe even a link to the letters from the Senate and Union, which McIntyre got by making a public records request to…
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The “Art of the Athlete” course was one of the more hilarious scams set up by the Duck Athletic department, presumably with the help of their academic liaison Lorraine Davis, although it’s often hard to get the administration to reveal exactly what it is that Ms Davis does: The Art…
8/23/2017: The RG’s Austin Meek’s report on this porkfest is unusually incurious. In fact this new contract is not a pay cut as Meek suggests, it’s a $50K raise for Horton to $500K a year, plus some new and remarkable bonuses. Although the old contract did guarantee him $90K for…
Thanks to the Emerald for sharing this with UOM. So far as I am aware previous UO administrations have never been willing to share this sort of information with the Senate – but maybe that will change, and the day will come when shared governance will no longer have to…
Use a cutesy cartoon figure to remind them of your bloated, scandal ridden big-time athletic program:
Ryan Thorburn has the data on pathetic Duck ticket sales in the RG here; According to data provided by the athletic department, the average renewal price of a season ticket is down by 3.9 percent, with 65 percent of seats decreasing in price and the other 35 percent remaining flat at…
Nick Budnick reports in the Portland Tribune. Sort of reminds me of former UO VPSA Robin Holmes’s attempt to manipulate UO student voters, here.
Around the O has info here. Yes the VPAA reports to the EVPAA, and yes we know that’s a violation of the normal rule that the longer your title the less important your job.
Seems like an excellent choice. Around the O has the details.
8/3/2017 update: That’s not a rumor, it’s a fact. Meanwhile, reports from staff survivors are that the inside temperature hit 92 an hour ago. Here’s the report from last year: 8/19/2016: Faculty Union to sue university over cruel and inhumane lack of AC in PLC The NYT has the story here. Just kidding about…
8/3/2017 update: No charges filed against former Dana Altman player Dylan Darling has the latest in the RG here: Police at a small college in Wyoming have closed a sexual assault case involving a member of the University of Oregon’s Final Four basketball team and no charges will be filed.…
We can only hope so. Under the porky contract that AD Rob Mullens negotiated, and Chuck Lillis and the UO Board of Trustees Executive Committee approved in Feb 2015, UO is still on the hook for $10M or so in salary payments to Helfrich, even though Mullens fired him last…
I wonder how long before one of Rob Mullens’ unpaid student-athletes stands up to the system. Probably a while. They are pretty scared, and with good reason. The Washington Post explains: … The NCAA released a statement of its own, saying the kickoff specialist could have kept making the YouTube…
Seems he’s pretty well qualified: Around the O has more here: Wineland in the news A Nobel for Teasing Out the Secret Life of Atoms (The New York Times) Quantum Computing Wins a Nobel (The New Yorker) Scientists are close to building a quantum computer that can beat a conventional one(Science Magazine)…
Gosh, I wonder whose idea this was. Faculty with 9 month contracts start on Sept 15. Classes start Sept 25th. And the UO Board of Trustees meets Sept 7-8. But at least the Board’s December meeting will be at a time when our Trustees can expect to have a chance…