The RG has the story here. Here’s the softball cash flow: $135K in tickets, ~$700K on salaries, and $624K on “miscellaneous”:
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All sessions in the Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom. The BOT’s hard to navigate website is here. Livecast here. Here’s what you need to know, with handy links. Live-blog if I have time. THURSDAY: 8AM: Academic and Student Affairs Committee Materials. 1.School and College Finances: Allocation Redesign, Provost Hiring Initiative, and Existing Gap Analyses:Scott Coltrane, Senior Vice President and Provost; Brad Shelton, Senior Vice Provost for Budget and Strategic Planning; Christoph Lindner, Dean, College of Design 2. Student Health Insurance – Model and Practices: Roger Thompson, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management, and LeAnn Gutierrez, Executive Director of the University Health Center 10AM: Finance and Facilities Committee…
That would be in Australia, from the (London) Times. For a cogent explanation of how higher education has been one of the U.S.’s most successful export industries – and I know how painful it must be for some of our Trustees to admit that professors have done better than timber…
InsideHigherEd, here: I moved into an apartment in a University of Southern California undergraduate residence hall as an assistant professor in the summer of 1989. … Over the years, I’ve watched the USC student affairs function and staff professionalize, just as they have at most other institutions. Positions that were…
It’s a common conundrum – how do you get rid of a bad administrator? Fire them, or help them move on to another university by writing a good letter? The UF Dean of Students took the later approach with her Title IX Coordinator – and it ended with both of them…
Jock has developed quite a following among those at UO who are interested in what’s happening in Salem, given that UO’s own State Affairs Office has a hard time rounding up 5 votes in the HECC. His latest: From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]> Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] May Update: Revenue issues, upcoming deadlines, and…
That would be at Evergreen State, a public university in Washington. Scott Jaschik of InsideHigherEd has the story here. Comments comparing this to UO’s reaction to the “Halloween Incident” are welcome, but I’m enforcing Euler’s Rule with vigor.
Here. Good luck with that – although at least the subsidies haven’t increased under Schill, and the rumors about the end of baseball are a promising sign.
Reporter Max Thornberry in the Emerald, here: …Current ASUO leadership disagrees with its predecessors. External Vice President Vickie Gimm told the Emerald that Haaga and Fisher did not represent her because they are graduating seniors who “should not be speaking on behalf of the students who will be affected by…
One of the dead was an Army veteran with 23 years of service, the other was a 23-year-old Reed economics graduate. The wounded man was a PSU student and poet. The Oregonian has continuing coverage.
Former Duck AD and booster Pat Kilkenny hired baseball coach Greg Horton back in 2010, and he is now 100% behind renewing his good friend’s $600K a year contract, despite the millions Horton has lost for UO. Kenny Jacoby has the red ink in the Emerald: Steve Mims has the quotes in the RG:…
This may be a first. Past Chronicle stories about UO have focused on such negatives as Bob Berdhahl’s double dipping, Richard Lariviere’s firing, Mike Gottfredson’s efforts to subvert academic freedom, Randy Geller’s attempt to convince the Trustees to destroy the UO Senate, the hilariously over the top Duck athletic spending, and…
And thanks to the HECC’s recent change of heart on tuition increases, we won’t have to cut this program. In yellow, you can see that the 4-year graduation rate for Pell eligible (i.e. low income, often minority/first generation) UO undergrads has gone from 36.8% for the 2003 cohort to 47.1%…
It’s official:
Dear University of Oregon community members,
Today the Higher Education Coordinating Commission reconsidered and approved the University of Oregon’s resident undergraduate tuition plan for the 2017-18 academic year. This decision allows the university to move forward with certainty and a well-thought-out plan for managing our finances.
I am extremely grateful to the commissioners for reversing their initial decision on our tuition plan. We appreciate that they were willing to reassess information about our tuition-setting process, our engagement with students and other campus stakeholders, and the untenable cuts to programs and student services we would have had to make without this source of funding. I am already actively working to improve these outreach and collaboration processes with various campus constituencies for next year, although we hope not to be faced with the same financial choices as this year.
As I have said many times, no one wants to increase tuition. The unfortunate fact is that decades of declining state support, coupled with increased expenses, has left us with very little choice. Even with the HECC’s approval of our plan, we have many difficult decisions ahead. The university has already identified $4.5 million in cuts, and an ad hoc advisory budget committee will be identifying another approximately $4 million in reductions or new revenue sources to close our funding gap.
I want to thank the many people who participated in this tuition setting process. These are challenging financial times for the university and the state. But we cannot be deterred. These constraints challenge us to find better ways to meet our educational mission and deliver outstanding student experiences. We must focus and think strategically about our priorities, and ensure that we efficiently and carefully spend every precious dollar we receive from students and their families, tax payers, and our donors.
We are up to the challenge, and I remain ever focused on making the University of Oregon the very best it can be.
Sincerely,
Michael Schill
President and Professor of Law
May 25 update: From the RG’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/registerguard
I think PSU passed unanimously, and UO was 7-1. The opposing HECC member seemed to be concerned about a perceived lack of racial and ethnic diversity at UO.
May 15 2017: OSU reveals UO’s next steps on OSA/HECC’s rejection of tuition increase
Here’s the latest from UO’s government and community relation’s office, courtesy of “Around the O”:
Cute, but not very informative and way out-of-date. If you’re looking for substance on what UO will do next, try OSU:
From: “Mills, Jock” <[email protected]>
Subject: [Government_Relations_Update] May Salem Update
Date: May 15, 2017 at 4:28:05 PM PDT
To: “‘[email protected]‘” <[email protected]>
… Last week, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) approved requests for resident, undergraduate tuition increases above 5% for Western Oregon University, Oregon Tech, and Southern Oregon University. HECC did not approve requests from Portland State University and the University of Oregon. Those universities are in conversation with HECC staff and the Commission about reconsidering the votes by which HECC denied those requests. If at least five of the voting Commissioners agree to provide approval, the HECC will convene a meeting within the next two weeks to reconsider the votes. The Oregon Student Association (OSA) had a strong presence at the HECC meeting and disrupted the meeting briefly during Commission deliberations. OSA has signaled that it would continue to oppose requests for tuition increases but that their focus will generally shift to the Legislature and the need for increased revenue. To that end, OSA is planning on phone banking on May 17 and holding lobby days on May 24 and June 6 with SEIU and other partners. …
Full report below the break:
The RG’s Saul Hubbard has the report here: The push for a new gross receipts tax received a momentum boost this week when a group of businesses, for the first time, publicly expressed some level of support for the effort. That coalition, which includes heavyweight Oregon companies such as Nike…