After yesterday’s Senate meeting I thought maybe Johnson Hall would open up a little. So I decided to go to this meeting, announced on Interim President Coltrane’s website: THURSDAY, APRIL 9 9:00 a.m. — President’s Advisory Group on Intercollegiate Athletics Members Faculty: Professor Kim Sheehan, School of Journalism and Communications,…
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Rich Read of the Oregonian interviews search Chair Connie Ballmer: … Conceivably, the board could toss out all four finalists and instruct the search committee to conduct another round of recruitment and requests for nominations. But Ballmer said search committee members “feel great” about the current four finalists, and she…
The latest post from $115K PR Flack Tobin Klinger about the faculty union bargaining is now up on AroundThe0. Salary negotiations re-start Friday at 2PM. The union is proposing raises that would finally get us to the Lariviere target. The administration wants to give all the money to people like…
and pile up massive student debt while helping cover his own $309K salary, just in case his wife cuts off the $1.5M subsidy he’s getting from UO undergrad tuition. Story in the Daily Emerald, here. Read about Mr. Moffitt’s previous efforts to figure out how to bring home the bacon…
11/15/2011: From the Washington Post. The president of the University of Maryland established the panel to take control of the athletic department’s budget. The problems at UO seem similar: massive overspending on salaries, chronic deficit, depletion of the reserve funds. Dropping Duck sports – baseball is the obvious candidate –…
Names redacted because I’m sure everyone involved in this lucrative little farce has the best and most earnest intentions. The Assistant VP who wrote it is paid $136,698. From: XXXXXXX XXXX Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 Subject: Operations Announcement – Talent Management Colleagues, I am pleased to share the following…
That would be the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, here.
Today’s RG Op-Ed from Faculty Union President Michael Dreiling: Quality higher education requires investment The University of Oregon’s Board of Trustees recently approved a new mission statement for the university. Its first line declares that the UO “is a comprehensive public research university committed to exceptional teaching, discovery, and service.”…
VP for Equity and Diversity Yvette Alex-Assensoh and her team are holding a Town Hall meeting, with workshops, to develop a new Diversity Plan. April 8th, Alumni Center ballroom. Background documents here.
In the NYT, here: … Policy makers in several places, including Delaware, Tennessee and the city of Chicago, are also pushing to help more low-income students get through college. Ultimately, these large-scale programs will almost certainly have a bigger impact than what happens at Vassar or Harvard. But the lack…
No of course I’m not talking about UO Interim President Scott Coltrane. I’m talking about Oregon State President Ed Ray. Story here. It’s odd how UO was so eager to hire a law firm to investigate the release of the Presidential Archives, but not to investigate the handling of the…
Seems like a simple request. I wonder why he hasn’t just forwarded the emails? Subject: public records request, Klinger communications on archivists Date: March 27, 2015 at 3:30:59 PM PDT To: Lisa Thornton Cc: Tobin Klinger Dear Ms Thornton – This is a public records request for copies of any…
It’s not just that we pay for their bowl game junkets and beemers. Average salaries, from UO Institutional Research data:
The NYT has the story here: Rolling Stone magazine retracted its article about a brutal gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity after the release of a report on Sunday that concluded the widely discredited piece was the result of failures at every stage of the process. The report,…