UO’s VP for Development Mike Andreasen has been dropping the ball on a lot of potential academic donations. As the Register Guard explains here, the Duck fundraisers are picking up his fumbles. The ODE has the story on the latest, here. President Gottfredson will explain this all to the UO…
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I’m guessing there are a lot more emails like this going around, please forward them. My response to Kees is below: From: [Business school Dean] Kees de Kluyver Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:09 AM To: LCB Faculty; LCB Staff; LCB OA’s Cc: Scott Coltrane Subject: Important matters on agenda…
From: “President’s Office” <[email protected]> Subject: Bruce MacAllister to join UO as university ombudsperson Date: February 10, 2014 at 2:55:26 PM PST Reply-To: [email protected] Dear Campus Community, I am pleased to announce that Bruce MacAllister will join the University of Oregon as university ombudsperson. MacAllister comes to the university from Santa…
If you’re a coach like Chip Kelly who gets caught promising a “street agent” like Willie Lyles $50,000 to help recruit football players, UO General Counsel Randy Geller will spend $150K on outside lawyers, and then pay the NCAA fine for you. But if you’re a UO faculty member like…
Diane Dietz has a comprehensive report in the RG, here: The businesses that depend on higher education spending may not feel the moderation right away because the University of Oregon, the county’s economic behemoth, is still playing catch up for enrollment growth from half a dozen years ago. The UO…
Ryan Kang has the details and many wonderful and sad photos of fallen trees, in the ODE:
2/5/2014: The Chronicle story is here, and the Delta Cost report here. Our administration has not posted the 2013 data yet, but casual empiricism suggests continued bloat under President Gottfredson, particularly at the higher levels, e.g. RIGE, the General Counsel’s office, “strategic communications”, and his own byzantine org chart. Keep in…
That would be President Steven Leath at Iowa State. From the Des Moines Register: Iowa State University is the only school in the country to increase hiring of full-time faculty and slash staffing in all other areas over the past decade, a new report finds. Between 2004 and 2012, ISU…
UOAlert!: Friday classes and events cancelled February 7th, 2014 UOAlert!: Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 — 9:15 a.m. The University of Oregon has cancelled classes and events for the remainder of the day (until 6 p.m.) The status of evening events will be posted by 3 p.m. From the ODE:
By Craig Garcia in the ODE, here.
Amazingly, the UO Senate President is not allowed to use UO’s email system to send email to the faculty or other Senate constituency listservs. Emails from the President must be approved by the the administration, to make sure they are consistent with the administration’s email policies, and then forwarded by…
2/5/2014 update, from an email sent to the UO faculty UO faculty union bargaining unit members from the union: The contract language is clear: “All bargaining unit faculty members hired on or before June 30, 2012 will receive a salary increase equal to 1.5% of salary effective January 1, 2013.”…
Jack Moran has the story in the RG: A state trooper who was ejected last fall from a college football game at Autzen Stadium, then suspended from active duty and banned from University of Oregon property, is now threatening to sue the UO and the city of Eugene for mistreatment.…
Ben Schorzman has the story in the RG: “I’m glad Oregon State is willing to step up and take it on.” According to OSAA sports information director Steve Walker, it grew increasingly expensive for the organization to hold tournaments at Moda and Matthew Knight Arena. Because they’re newer, larger arenas,…
Op-Ed on the role of the UO HC in keeping smart Oregon students in Oregon, here. Co-authored with UO Foundation trustee Jim Shephard. I’ve supervised a bunch of their students over the years. They are great students with many outside opportunities, keeping them in-state is not cheap but it’s a…