Reporter Noah McGraw has an excellent one in the Daily Emerald, here.
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Felix Salmon has the story here: The best piece of in-depth investigative reporting you’re likely to read this week comes not from any journalist, but rather from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general. His 55-page report into what went wrong at Cooper Union should be required, and…
Colleen Flaherty has the story in InsideHigherEd, here: Facing what is sure to be a difficult retention season, given this year’s battles over the future of higher education funding and tenure in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin at Madison is today announcing the results of a massive donation-matching campaign aimed…
9/7/2015: Silly question. He’s paid to be the athletic department’s sacrificial anode. It took the UO Public Records Office a month to provide his resume and the justification for changing the job from Associate VP to VP. They claim they didn’t have to provide his resume, but only did it because he agreed…
What an impressive letter, here. Thanks to the economists at marginalrevolution.com for the link, from a reporter’s FOIA request for her mom’s emails: I love how she puts the important parts in bold. She must know that her parents skim. My dad used to send me letters with footnotes, since he knew how…
RG columnist Don Kahle is no economist, so he usually makes sense. Here’s his modest proposal on what to do about UO’s Duck problem – spin them off as an entertainment LLC. We trust unfettered economics to produce outcomes that are optimized. We want nothing more for our Ducks than optimized outcomes.…
I haven’t had time to dig through all the dockets, links below. If you see anything interesting please post a comment. Executive and Audit Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Finance and Facilities Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Academic and Student Affairs Committee — September 10, 2015 [Materials] Meeting of…
Ryan Thorburn has the story in the RG, here. No word on how much the gift letter requirements will cost UO’s academic side. (But a correction to note below – Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has posted the gift agreement at http://trustees.uoregon.edu/sites/trustees1.uoregon.edu/files/ffc_notice_agenda_materials_091015_-_for_posting.pdf ) The last time this happened the OUS Board demanded considerable documentation from…
Parker Executive Search, the same firm that ran UO’s search, is in charge. In comparison to UO, the Iowa search team had a full complement of faculty, selected by the faculty senate and not by the administration. And they’re bringing 4 candidates to campus, including the sitting president of Oberlin…
University administrators are panicking about the fact that it has become more difficult to hide information about campus sexual assaults. And the second thing a panicked administrator does – after firing whoever leaked the public records – is look for a consultant to paper things over. Sure enough, the market for Title IX and sexual assault…
That’s got to be a tough job, given Ms Daugherty’s famous incompetence. I wonder how much experience Heroy has, and how much we’re paying her. Here’s the blurb from the Amitrius Coaching and Consulting website: Here’s Ms Heroy’s report on what UO is doing to reduce sexual assaults. Accomplishment #1? Hire…
After the public records about her dealings with former Duck football coach and Athletic Director Mike Bellotti became public, the Oregon DOJ’s David Leith and Keith Dubanevich investigated and found that UO General Counsel Melinda Grier had provided “deficient legal representation” to UO. The investigation cost UO about $50K. President Lariviere immediately fired Grier…
$1600 for the names of who is on the UOPD’s oversight committee? More than 2 weeks delay for hiring documents on the new VP for Communications Kyle Henley? One of President Schill’s first acts was to shift reporting of UO’s public records office from Dave Hubin to Greg Stripp, when Stripp was promoted from…
But Mullens claims the Ducks get no subsidies. At least they’re arguing over the right thing. Someday the PAC-12 ADs may even start doing something to help out their universities with that new TV revenue. Just kidding, we know they’ll spend it all on raises for themselves. Adam Jude has…