Former RG reporter Joe Moseley has the game news at goducks.com. Dana Altman’s contract gives him a $10K bonus for this Duck win, to top off his ~1.5M base: You can help pay Joe Young instead, at Fan Angel, here. The NCAA is a classic hiring cartel. College athletic departments…
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For years Lorraine Davis, a former UO VP and current assistant to Provost Bronet for athletics, has been at the center of UO’s admissions of athletes that don’t meet regular academic standards. Now, just 2 days after the UO Senate voted to appoint two new faculty members to keep an…
FAR Jim O’Fallon: 0.5FTE at $195K FAR Tim Gleason: 0.5FTE at $219K Jim O’Fallon has been pulling down $100K or so a year to serve as UO’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative for 25 years, without any faculty review. Last summer Mike Gottfredson appointed retiring Journalism Tim Gleason to replace O’Fallon…
3/13/2015 update: And boy is PSU pissed. Allan Brettman has the report in the Oregonian, here: The state Higher Education Coordinating Commission on Thursday approved UO’s application to start a Master of Science in Sports Product Management. The program, long sought by the region’s sports products companies, will enroll students…
UO Undergraduate Thomas Tullis got the video of a UOPD Officer making some extremely false statements about the First Amendment, to an extremely patient anti-abortion protester. The cop is very calm and professional about trying to keep the peace, but everything he says about UO and free speech is completely unconstitutional…
3/12/2015 update: Rich Read has the story in the Oregonian, here: Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and the Faculty Senate of the University of Oregon both announced efforts this week to address an apparent loophole in federal law that allows sexual assault victims’ medical and therapy records to be released by…
“Give it to the students: If UO has athletic surplus, approve a fee rebate” 3/12/2015, in the RG, here: The financial divergence between the University of Oregon’s athletic department and the rest of the institution is galling to those on the wrong side of the gap, leading to demands that…
Cocktail party version: The Senate votes to: Approve new courses, have the faculty vote on nominees for Faculty Trustee, try and fix the confidential counseling mess, hold the administration’s feet to the fire on sexual violence prevention, tell the Ducks to raise some donations to cut the cost of student football tickets,…
But it’s not working, attendance is now below 1,000. Hayden Kim has the story in the Daily Emerald. Here are a few selective and shamelessly rearranged quotes: … Based on numbers given to me by [Duck PR flack Craig Pintens], the average student attendance for this season was 989 per game. Last season,…
… instead of dumping millions on sophomoric strategic communicators and 160over90 branders? The RG Editorial Board asks the question, here. Update: It appears OU President Bowen may have been a little too decisive, in following up his move to disband the frat with a decision to expel two students. Bowen’s…
[Note: I’ve turned off comments for this post. The RG has a story here, with open comments.] On Tuesday Mar 10, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Public Affairs Communications <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Campus Community, I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dave Frohnmayer. Dave was a friend, a…
Not the UO Foundation. The OSU Foundation. Their helpful public records person sent me their 990 the day after I asked for it, here. In comparison, as in past years, the University of Oregon Foundation seems determined to drag out the release of their IRS 990 non-profit reporting form until…
“Above the Law” has the news about US News rankings, here. UO was #77 when we hired Michael Moffitt as Dean, and I believe #82 is as high as we’ve been since. UO was helped by a change in the algorithm that reduced the weight on temporary jobs that law…
I’ve followed with an email to PR asking for the price on just part b), and to Dean Lim, asking if she’ll provide these directly. No response from either, yet. Dear Mr. Harbaugh: The University of Oregon has received your public records request for “a) documents from external reviewers, consultants…