Update: A helpful commenter has pointed out to me that there is no short term deterioration in UO’s financial position. (The PERS threat on the other hand is real). The $17.5M shortfall claimed in the RG story for this year was already dealt with by the university administration, by this year’s tuition…
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They want more diversity on the board, more info on finances and audits, more time to interact with students, faculty, deans, and ask questions and have discussions, and less emphasis on one-sided presentations: Just kidding, that’s the OSU Board of Trustees. Full 7 page evaluation here. I have no idea…
“Two oak trees removed Wednesday to be repurposed” I’m no tree hugger, but let’s call a chainsaw a chainsaw.
The RG’s Diane Dietz has the news on the report from Mike Schill’s denaming historians. This story concentrates on former UO Professor and KKK Exalted Cyclops Frederick Dunn: He was the exalted cyclops of the Eugene chapter of the Ku Klux Klan — “one of the most successful (KKK) klaverns in Oregon” —…
While the once mighty Duck sports enterprise has been reduced to using UO Foundation money to lobby Oregon’s politicians for a million in lottery money here, $25M in lodging taxes there, the University of Oregon’s librarians, led by Dean Adrienne Lim, have brought in $36M in voluntary charitable contributions to pay…
The full docket is here, courtesy of Carl Malamud’s RecapTheLaw. The RG’s Alisha Roemeling has a report here. The intro: The University of Oregon went to federal court Tuesday to argue that lawsuits filed by three former UO basketball players against the university should be thrown out. After a three-hour hearing, U.S. District…
8/9/2016: Her offense was the unforgivable one for an administrator: Making the boss, in this case UC system President Janet Napolitano, look stupid: The report strongly disputes Linda Katehi’s repeated assertions that she was not involved in contracting with private companies to improve Davis’s online image and her own, both of…
Saul Hubbard has the sad news in the RG here, along with a list of the current top 100. Ted Sickinger’s amazing 2011 story on how the people of Oregon came to be paying former Duck football coach Mike Bellotti $500K a year in pension benefits is here. In essence,…
The University has commissioned a thorough, unbiased, blunt, and very interesting report on the racist views and actions of two of its early leaders, prepared by three noted historians. It’s linked to in President Schill’s letter below asking for community input on the Deady and Dunn renaming, and here. Dear Campus…
If you are in UO’s ORP and/or the TDI 403(b) retirement plans, do you know how much you are paying your money managers? As this NYT story notes, it matters: Even modest reductions in costs can have a significant effect on retirees’ savings. An oft-cited example from the Labor Department: Paying 1 percentage…
Diane Dietz rips Lane County’s well paid garbage consultants a new one in the RG, here: The greatest – and maybe only – pleasure of a trip to the Glenwood trash transfer station is the chance to fling garbage into the air and watch it tumble into the massive, deep…
The WaPo has the latest on Rio, but Steve Prefontaine said it best:
A month ago UO’s directory listed longtime UO administrator Lorraine Davis’s only current UO affiliation as Professor Emeritus [sic] – an unpaid honorific typically bestowed upon faculty who retire after long and distinguished careers as teachers and researchers: I was a little surprised to see this, since Davis’s recent work has been more focused on Duck…
Two interesting stories out of UT-Austin today: Incorrect Latin word mars UT’s monument to victims of 1966 Tower sniper Meanwhile the state of Texas has decided to allow concealed-carry on college campuses. But UT-Austin is allowing professors to declare that their offices are gun-free zones. Presumably the administration will issue these,…
The Atlantic’s take on recent research by UO Economist Ben Hansen: … So-called ban-the-box policies—which prevent employers from asking about a candidate’s criminal history until later on in the hiring process—aim to help people like Mathieson more easily enter the labor market. President Obama “banned the box” on federal-government employment…