Just in time for tomorrow’s Senate meeting. The final draft is here and the signed copy should be on the policy website soon. It takes effect in September. Mandatory reporting is increasingly under attack. UO’s new policy, which requires faculty to respect student wishes rather than report what they say to the administration, will…
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I don’t know why the Office of Equity and Inclusion can’t fund the Diversity Action Plans out of their large and growing budget. But it seems like the colleges are going to have to pay, and in CAS that’s going to mean the departments:
NOTE: Candidate #1 has withdrawn and the Monday sessions are cancelled: Campus Visits and Public Presentations Candidates for the AAEO Director position are scheduled for onsite interviews. The campus community is invited to attend the public presentation of each candidate on the dates provided below. Presentation Topic: Building and maintaining campus…
That would be Wright State University.
ELECTIONS Spring 2017 Senate and Committee Elections are open! Please login to your Duckweb account to access the ballot. You will see candidate options based on your rank/classification, i.e. tenure-track teaching faculty in College of Arts & Sciences-Natural Sciences, Officer of Administration, Classified Staff and so on. The list of…
Details after the break. But don’t panic, it’s not as threatening as it sounds.
It was “Madame Curie”. Great turnout. One of the most successful events so far. I even saw a few humanities profs. The club will be open again Thursday, 5-8 PM. Go in through the Art Museum’s front door.
on transparency, he’s actually called a town-hall meeting to discuss his school’s budget issues and how he plans to deal with them. And he even emailed his students an invitation with the details.
Just kidding, that was for Athletic Director Rob Mullens and football coach Matt Helfrich. There’s no evidence Chuck Lillis is going to fall for Rob’s shit again. They’ll give the money to some new baseball coach: 3/1/2015: In February the UO Board of Trustees gave big raises to Duck AD Rob Mullens and…
Uh, maybe s/he didn’t get the message from AD Rob Mullens on how now was the time to help out our students with some money for academic scholarships? Or maybe there was no such message. Channel 12 news:
Update: Court rules university foundations subject to state public records law
That would be in Illinois. The Student Press Law Association has the news here. An increasing number of state AG’s, courts, and laws now require the same – but not Oregon.
5/16/2017: They are just now releasing data from the FY that ended June 30, 2016. Donations fell from $136M to $103M. CEO Paul Weinhold’s compensation increased from $417K to $444K, overall compensation for the top 5 “key employees” has increased by about 30%. (The individual pay reported in the full 990 below is for the calendar year 2014-15, while the overall number is for the 2015-16 FY – meaning that Weinhold’s pay is probably actually up 30% or so over last year. )
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They report spending only $10K on lobbying (presumably for the IAAF) and lump academic and non-academic (sports) expenditures together.
President Schill’s office is telling the Emerald they do not have records on expenditures of foundation funds by his office:
The full IRS 990 for 2015-16 is here: http://www.uofoundation.org/s/1540/images/editor_documents/form_990/university_of_oregon_foundation_2015_990_public_disclosure_copy_website.pdf
For comparison, the 2014-15 990 is here: https://uomatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/uof_2014_public_disclosure_copy_combined_website.pdf
More below the break:
Dear CAS Colleagues, In case you haven’t heard, I want you to be aware of an innovative fundraising campaign currently underway that will benefit two CAS programs. The campaign, called DuckFunder, is a crowdfunding approach that aims to attract lots of small gifts (and even some large ones) for very…
http://publicrecords.uoregon.edu/requests After all his work sneaking these by the Senate, you’d think Rob Mullens would have them readily at hand, if only to pass out to the athletes: