I’m not sure what the takeaway from this should be. The Duck Athletic Department is finally yielding to pressure to give some spare change back to UO? Duck donors really will give to the academic side – but only if you twist their arms? The academic side can’t even get $250K out…
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Ted Sickinger’s amazing 2011 story on how the people of Oregon came to be paying former Duck coach Mike Bellotti $500K a year in pension benefits is here. In essence, Bellotti PERS payout is based on all the money he got in bonuses and Nike deals, even though the state never…
No I don’t meet another zip drive of public records. I mean the Oregon Supreme Court case on the 2013 PERS reforms. Laura Gunderson of the Oregonian has the details on today’s OSC ruling here: The Oregon Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday harkening back to a basic playground rule: If you…
This previous post explains that in March Coltrane told Clevenger to review expenditures, report back, and freeze hiring in the meantime. Apparently UO is so short on strategic communicators that VP Tim Clevenger has spent $356,014 on help, just at Gallatin Public Affairs. What’s it buying, other than Oregonian editorials…
Meeting today 403 Ford Alumni Center. As usual Johnson Hall has sent Dave Hubin and non-AA compliant hire Chuck Triplett to keep an eye on the meeting and report back. I wonder what would happen if the Senate sent a few members to report to the Senate on what happens…
I don’t know, but they are really trying to hide it: From: Bill Harbaugh Subject: Re: Public Records Request 2015-PRR-228 Date: April 28, 2015 at 11:27:51 PM PDT To: Lisa Thornton Cc: Gregory Rikhoff , Doug Park , Interim President Coltrane , Office of the Provost Dear Ms Thornton –…
On the editorial page, here: Bipartisanship isn’t dead in the Oregon Legislature. It just needs a good motivator sometimes. So in that sense, the University of Oregon has unwittingly helped encourage good public policy in its bumbling and insensitive handling of a March 2014 report that three UO basketball players…
Colleen Flaherty has the story in InsideHigherEd, here. A snippet: There’s been no shortage of criticism, both formal and informal, of how the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign handled the withdrawn faculty appointment of Steven Salaita last summer. (The university has a substantial number of supporters who say it was…
Trigger warning for Dana Altman believers: this film includes some info on UO’s alleged basketball gang rape. Details here.
4/27/2015 update:
To: University Campus Community
From: Robert Kyr, University Senate President
RE: Please Sign Up for Senate & Committee Service—
Final Deadline: MONDAY, April 27, 2015
I am writing with a last reminder that Monday, April 27 is the deadline to sign up for Senate and Committee service through the following qualtrics survey:
Alexandra Wallachy has the story, here: … Moving the school forward was a major theme in the presidential search. A set of frequently asked questions distributed at the presidential press conference twice mentioned Schill’s ability to move the university forward. Where will forward take the university? Don’t expect him to…
Doesn’t sound good about staying in the AAU. Gets asked about how difficult it is to run UO, says not different than other large publics. Here: Coltrane’s schedule for this week is here: The “meeting with faculty member” is with me, to talk about the Senate motions on athletics and…
In the RG, read it all here: The book is called “Missoula,” but don’t mistake it for someone else’s story. The title could have been “Eugene.” Or “Corvallis.” Or any of a hundred other college towns where politics, sports and campus culture collide. The latest book by Jon Krakauer, a…
I wasn’t there, but I’ve received a few emails from Journalism faculty, telling me that Professor of Advertising Deb Morrison used the occasion of a Friday J-School faculty meeting with UO’s VP for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh to assert that I was engaged in cyberbullying. The official .gov definition…
That would be in in Ethiopia. UO student reporter Joseph Hoyt has the report in the ODE, here: On April 25, 2014, Zelalem Kibret was sitting at his computer when he heard a knock at the door. Waiting on the other side stood a group of Ethiopian police officers. Kibret…