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:
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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
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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:
Update: OPB’s Rob Manning reports on the latest from the HECC, here: … HECC commissioners were critical of the large universities, suggesting they had not done enough outreach to affected groups, like students. One commissioner also suggested that by rejecting tuition hikes it would send a message to state lawmakers that more funding is…
New info on likely legislative changes and how to best react, on his PERS Info blog here. And the best explanation I’ve read yet on the kicker and how it turns good news into bad news.
In the Chronicle here: … The emails leaked to The American Conservative document a conflict that began in February, when Mr. Griffiths responded to a colleague’s email urging Divinity School faculty members to participate in voluntary diversity training with his own email urging them to skip it as a waste of…
Under CEO Paul Weinhold the Foundation has cut way back on the information it shares with the public. This IRS report for July 2015-June 2016 will be 10.5 months old when it is released, and will include only the basic legally required information about the Foundation’s dealings with Vin Lananna’s Tracktown…
Wow – this has the appearance of a big step forward in UO transparency. From Around the O: American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft famously observed that “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” The University…
You don’t have to file a public records request: The UO Graduate School’s 8th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum will be held this Friday May 12 in and around the EMU Ballroom. Come hear research symposia at 10, 11:15, and 12:45; see students describe their research in 3 minutes flat at…
I don’t know. Let’s find out.
Alec Cowan has a very interesting story in the Emerald on this campus group. Read it all here.
Something you don’t see every day, in the RG letters here.
The artist Ai Weiwei, in the NYT here: Whenever the state controls or blocks information, it not only reasserts its absolute power; it also elicits from the people whom it rules a voluntary submission to the system and an acknowledgment of its dominion. This, in turn, supports the axiom of…