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…
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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…
Teaching evaluations are now posted on Duckweb. Put your favorite ones in the comments! I’ll start off: Please comment on the strengths and areas of possible improvement for the course as a whole.: I think I’m just not that into economics.
Major revenue streams are up. Google ads: Coffee cups: cafepress.com/universityofnike: Expenses continue to climb however, and our liquid assets are well below the 5-15% reserve level that OUS has tried to hold Jamie Moffitt to.
Report from U of Minnesota here. 67% of the UO coaches for women’s sports are men. I don’t know if they are counting cheerleading as a sport. Also see this InsideHighereEd report by former UO journalism student Allie Grasgreen. The Duck athletic department’s 5-year “Diversity Action” window-dressing plan is here,…
That would be in Kansas. From Scott Jaschik at InsideHigherEd. The newly adopted policy of the University of Kansas Board of Regents gives their President the right to fire faculty for tweets: The chief executive officer of a state university has the authority to suspend, dismiss or terminate from employment…