Thanks to the faculty who wore wires, and the underpaid web workers at the Mechanical Turk for their transcriptions. Many pages of details after the fold. I’d say the most revealing parts are when Provost Coltrane and his VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt reveal that UO’s well is far from…
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9/7/2013 update: An OSU correspondent reminds us of a previous post comparing research reporting by UO and OSU, and notes that OSU’s research office does day long meetings with faculty, and even posts them online: 2011 2012 9/6/2013: Or maybe not. Sounds like she’s sending a substitute for this 2.5 hour…
9/13/2013: Or not. I’d add the salaries, but Dave Hubin’s public records office is delaying them until after the faculty and SEIU unions are done negotiating. These are as of the end of May. Name Title 2013 car stipend Gottfredson, Michael President $14,400 Andreasen, Michael C Vice Pres for Univ…
9/13/2012: Lots of traffic yesterday (and email from faculty at other universities) came from the InsideHigherEd story on President Gottfredson’s proposal to limit faculty free speech rights.
9/10/2013, from a helpful staff member: OUR WORK, OUR VOTE, OUR VOICE STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTES Only SEIU members can vote. If you are not a member yet, membership applications will be available on-site for those you want to join and vote. If you don’t remember whether you’ve completed an application,…
9/10/2013: From the comments: Vote for UOmatters.com on the Eugene Weekly’s “Best of Eugene.” I propose, 4. Best local hell-raiser26. Best self-published literary item (blog, zine) Go to http://bestofeugene.com/ Thanks! FWIW, my last muckraking award was from the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists, for this blog and for getting the…
9/3/2013: Randy Geller is only now releasing the tapes, in response to a public records request. You bet I’ve got another ethics complaint brewing. It seems there’s been a lot of questionable behavior inside the President’s office, and the secret football recruiting video will raise many new questions with Jim…
8/26/2013: A correspondent notes that if UO faculty leave early (i.e. take a sabbatical and then don’t come back) we also have to repay a year’s salary. Link here. Of course we don’t get 3.5 years to do it, and we have to repay the cost of our benefits too. 8/24/2013:…
8/15/2013: ODE reporter CJ Ciamarella cut his teeth on Duck athletics scandals, now he’s working in DC, reporting on the EPA.
8/15/2013: Refreshingly open, transparent, and even updated in real-time: Oh wait, sorry, that’s for Oregon State. If you’re curious about research activity at UO, you’ll have to wade through a bunch of outdated pdf’s, here. Or you could make a public records request to UO for emails on our AAU…
8/5/2013 update: Word around the faculty club poker table is that Gottfredson has doubled down on his Espy bet. Should I call or raise?7/12/2013 update: Sorry, very sorry. Alabama has just announced the search failed, and they’re keeping their interim Provost on for another 18-24 months instead. Maybe Nebraska will take…
8/13/2013: Just kidding, that’s how much Athletic Director Rob Mullens is paying the Nicholls State University Colonels football team to show up in Autzen and lose to the Ducks, 4 weeks before the UO students even show up for classes. Vegas has Oregon by 51 points. College sports at its…
8/9/2013: From an extensive interview with Larry Scott by former UO student Allie Grasgreen, in IHE: There’s obviously already a big concern, especially among the academics we write for, about the escalation of spending and the so-called arms race, and Oregon’s new football building is a good example of that.…
7/29/2013: Great news. The university has finally published a comprehensible budget, a strategic plan, and information on future spending priorities. 114 pages, starting with a fact-filled letter from the President, followed with detailed reports on what has been achieved and what remains to be achieved from the 2009 academic plan. There’s…
7/29/2013: Job posting in the Chronicle here. The hiring committee is here, Alec Murphy chairs. The search firm is Isaacson Miller. From what I can tell their most recent prior contract with UO was for the CFO search in 2011, which failed. President Lariviere then made the command decision to…