Dear friends, I am writing to introduce myself as the University of Oregon’s new provost and senior vice president. As you may know, President Michael Schill asked me in February to join this outstanding institution and I was delighted to accept. I arrived on campus last week, but I have…
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Saul Hubbard has the good news in the RG today. The ask was for $100M, but the rest will come next biennium or so. These are the kinds of bonds that are repaid by taxpayers – unlike the $235M the state let UO borrow for Knight Arena. Those bonds are…
Not a surprise, given the long string of public relations fiascoes under Pintens. Odd that there didn’t seem to have been an Affirmative Action compliant search notice on the UO jobs website, but the Knoxville News-Sentinel has the report here: Rob Mullens really can’t afford a repeat of this sort of…
7/2/2017: That’s my takeaway from the various sports columnists, e.g. here and here. 7/1/2017: Another of Willie Taggart’s Ducks gets a DUI charge This time it’s one of his players, not one of his coaches, so at least UO won’t have to pay him $60K to leave. Award winning Emerald reporter…
The RG has the news here. Good for the Oregon DMV!
These politicians should spare us their false outrage over Trump’s request for state voter info. Oregon’s Secretary of State (Brown was Secretary of State until Feb 2015) has sold this info online for years. It’s mostly used by political campaigns, such as those of Governor Brown and Senator Wyden, but it’s…
June Update: Sine die is nigh This issue provides an update and summary of some of the major budget decisions affecting Oregon’s public universities. Last week when the Governor and House and Senate leaders announced they could not reach an agreement on revenue reform this session, both chambers started moving…
Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing & Public Relations Craig Pintens has the great news! (Apparently Craig has blocked me on twitter, but that means nothing to google’s searchbots – now if only I could figure out how to turn this one off): Of course this is the NCAA, so…
Any man who is scared of grandmothers has done something very, very bad. He’d better hope they don’t find out what. The NYT has the news here.
Who knows how many millions of dollars and how much damage to UO’s “brand” Dana Altman and his enablers have cost us so far, and how much is still to come. But for now, Dylan Darling has the good news in the RG here: … U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in…
This is old news, but presumably the BBC thinks they might shake up some new sources with a reminder: …Now, the BBC understands, the American authorities – including tax investigators at the IRS – are seeking to investigate if there has been any wrongdoing committed in the US, bringing to…
This is what happens when your city council bans Uber. The RG has the details here.
Stanford economist Paul Milgrom has a good explanation of the theory of the winner’s curse here. Oregonian sports reporter Ken Goe has the latest evidence here. Eugene lost the bid but that was probably a win, considering the cost of winning the bid: USA Track Track & Field has awarded the 2020 Olympic…
Inside Higher Ed reports on the NACUA meeting here: … “We feel as an administration, and particularly Candice and I feel, that it is very, very important to adopt these positions, work these issues through in a collaborative approach with the people out there in the field,” Wheeler said to growing…
Saul Hubbard has the good news in the RG here: For the UO, the extra money for public universities would translate roughly to an extra $10 million in funding over the next two years. That would more than cover the cost of “buying down” the tuition increase by 4 percent…