The Boston Globe reports on the wake, here. That would be Northeastern University, the 2010 story also reports on other universities that have done the same.
Posts published in “Uncategorized”
Bennett Hall has an excellent story in the Corvallis Gazette Times: Oregon State University student media adviser Kate Willson thought she was just doing her job when she filed a public records request with the university. Now she’s worried it could get her fired. OSU’s chief spokesman says Willson’s job…
In the Atlantic magazine, here. Con rispetto, Don Corleone also deserves a cite:
This is driven by Oregon’s reliance on income taxes rather than sales taxes and by the Oregon EITC. (We have the unlikely combination of Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon to thank for the federal EITC, which gives low income families a tax credit for income they earn through work. Oregon’s…
Update: Make that 2: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=4538 President Gottfredson blew $1M on Sharon Rudnick and her helpers. After first putting Jim Bean in charge of bargaining, he’s now paying the feckless Tim Gleason $218K a year to work on contract implementation and strategic communications about the CBA. He’s paying $122,004 to Sam…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbelzer/2013/12/26/why-the-oregon-ducks-teach-us-that-luck-isnt-everything/ And don’t miss their op-ed from Monday, calling to an end to federal tax subsidies for big-time college sports and for the salaries like the one UO pays Mr. Mullens: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/2013/12/23/subsidized-saturdays-the-tax-free-world-of-college-football/ In the coming weeks, the nation’s top college football teams will face off in the Bowl Championship Series,…
From the PEW foundation: Does anyone have the Oregon data?
No. Sharon Rudnick, Doug Blandy, and Tim Gleason repeatedly claimed this during the contract negotiations, as did many other UO administrators. The union team called them out on it every time. After the contract was signed these claims persisted, despite clear contract language to the contrary. So the union sent…
12/23/2013: Just kidding. The rumor is that Kees has already decided to give Jim Bean the job, without an open affirmative action compliant public search. Update: Here’s the email from the LCB Dean announcing the changes. Say what you will about de Kluyver, he sent me a copy of this…
That would be Neil Theobald, Temple University’s new President.
Update: Texas Tech names Provost 12/7/2013: VP for Research Kimberly Espy finalist at Texas Tech for Provost http://today.ttu.edu/2013/11/open-forums-scheduled-for-provost-senior-vp-finalists/
Or maybe it’s something else. Oregon Institute of Technology enrollment is up 10%, the largest % in the OUS system. OIT doesn’t have a football team. Instead they recruit students by telling them how tough their academic programs are: They also don’t belong to the NCAA, instead they are part…
12/26/2013 update: Dave Frohnmayer and Barbara West will also co-teach a 199 Political Science course, “Theories of Leadership”. Experimental 199 classes are supposed to be reviewed and approved by the faculty Senate after 2 years. Frohnmayer and West, who is his former special assistant and holds a PhD in Jungian…