10/24/2013: Duck PR flack Rob Moseley has the story – a pretty good one – with some insight into the effort it takes to turn an athletic scholarship into an actual education.
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The University of Oregon administration has been bargaining a union contract with the UO faculty’s AAUP/AFT affiliate local since November. I regularly blog about the bargaining sessions. In February the University of Oregon’s administrative bargaining team wrote an unsigned “Open Letter” to the UO community, saying: “We write this letter…
Update: WSU President Elson Floyd on leadership and his voluntary pay cut: Leadership: I believe very strongly in leadership by example-in working very hard at what we do-and I work hard to inculcate those values at our institution every day. When we faced the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, all…
10/18/13. For administrators like Robin Holmes, and coaches. And of course we’ve got millions for deadwood administrators. Another million for Sharon Rudnick and her consultants. $2.4M for the Portland White Stage lease. $350K a year to rent the Presidential Skybox at Autzen from Rob Mullens. $500K from academics to pay…
10/15/2013: Great news from the RG for UO and the library. Pres Gottfredson fronted $1M to make it happen. Hard to imagine a more interesting or important collection. I have to point out that Kesey couldn’t make it as UO faculty these days, what with our administration’s new Drug and Alcohol policy.
10/14/13: 300 baud, full duplex. Dial-up pool info here. 10/13/13: During the union bargaining Jamie Moffitt said the faculty would have to choose between raises to get us to our comparators, or wifi. Seems like we got neither. The RG has a great photo, and details from Diane Dietz: Capacity is…
10/14/13. If you got a tip you can either email it to uomatters at gmail.com or post an anonymous comment here. Comments on any UO related matters welcome.
10/11/13: From USA Today:
10/10/2013: The latest from our President’s official website: http://president.uoregon.edu/content/access-and-quality-sustaining-higher-education-oregons-public-interest As we stand at the threshold of this exciting reform, I see a bold path forward. If you had told me a year ago, when I first arrived at the University of Oregon, that today we would be this far along this…
10/4/2013: That would be Duck President Michael Gottfredson, vs. UC-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiFestano. Duck faculty, on the other hand, lost this one by 13%: Faculty salary averages are for Fall 2012, from the Chronicle/AAUP data. President/Chancellor salary and deferred compensation from news reports. Colorado system President Bruce Benson makes $359K.…
10/2/2013: Readers report some interesting personalized google ads – and they seem to be getting a few click-throughs: * Figures do not include cash or other liquid donations, or t-shirt licensing revenue.
9/28/2013: I don’t know who hooked UO up with eduroam, but it’s genius. Use your UO login to get wifi at universities all over the world. Eduroam comes up as a wifi router, click and login. Working great in Lausanne. You can also let visitors use UO’s network. Nobody tell…
9/27/2013 update: Looks like the law school is paying Frohnmayer $50K to co-teach a 19 person class in the Honor’s college with his long-time assistant Barbara West: The course focuses on a small number of topics central to theories of leadership including totalitarianism, charisma, ethics, and the heroic leader. (sic) That…
9/17/2013: Economist Mary King from PSU, in the Oregonian.