That would be Portland State President Wim Weiwel. Ken Goe has the story in the Oregonian, here: Portland State president Wim Wiewel has directed that the PSU football team become self-sufficient by the 2014-15 academic year. … Their football program loses money. In comparison UO’s football program makes millions, which…
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12/6/2013: Troy Brynelson has a story on the Senate meeting in the ODE, here. I’ll have a write up soon. 12/4/2013 update on “Senate President refuses to allow vote on athletic subsidies”: After substantial pressure from many Senators, President Paris has now agreed to a process by which the Senate will…
12/5/2013 update: Emeldi case tossed out. Diane Dietz has the scoop, here. 12/3/2013: Emeldi v. UO lawsuit goes to trial in Eugene The Chronicle has a report, here: Monica A. Emeldi hopes the lawsuit she has brought against the University of Oregon helps to empower graduate students when their relationships with…
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/4/academics-left-outofcollegefootballsmultibilliondollarbonanza.html
From today’s Harvard Crimson: “I can answer the question, if you want me to.” (Dean) Harris said. “The median grade in Harvard College is indeed an A-. The most frequently awarded grade in Harvard College is actually a straight A.” From UO Matters story, “VPAA Doug Blandy pulls off daring…
The union CBA says research faculty will get raises. The administration signed the CBA. The research faculty *will* get their raises. This memo from VP for Research Espy explains that the money will not come from UO’s research fund – it will come from VP for Finance Moffitt’s emergency fund.…
The person who forwarded this email thinks it relates to faculty who should have got the first 1.5% retroactive payment on their summer pay, but didn’t: Dear University of Oregon Faculty Member: As you are likely aware, the United Academics Collective Bargaining Agreement took effect this last month. This resulted…
Matthew Kish has an excellent story in the Portland Business Journal about payments from Nike to UO athletics department’s employees. This stuff has conflict of interest all over it. I wonder how much Lorraine Davis gets? As Ted Sickinger reported in the Oregonian last year, these sorts of payments were…
11/30/2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/sports/ncaafootball/television-revenue-fuels-a-construction-boom-in-the-pac-12.html
11/29/2013: Too close to call. The Ducks spend 61% more on athletics and 19% more on our bloated central administration, but the Beavers spend 100% more on research. IPEDS data from: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/971644/uomatters/Football%20comparisons/UO.pdfhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/971644/uomatters/Football%20comparisons/OSU.pdf Helfrich contract here – maybe this slim win will keep the Duck boosters from blowing $6.4M on buying his…
11/27/2013: Jeff Mapes has the story in the Oregonian: The court upheld a ballot title that reads: Allows non-union member public employees receiving required union representation to refuse to share representation costs. I’m no economic theorist, but in theory the wording shouldn’t matter – the incentives are the same. But…
11/24/2013: UO saved some big bucks yesterday. Yes, we’ll owe AD Rob Mullens another $50K if the Ducks play in any bowl game at all – contract here. But we’ll save maybe $250K on Helfrich – almost enough to cover the Scott Coltrane / Lorraine Davis increase in the Jock…
11/19/2013: That would be SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi, asking for guidance from the CA State Chancellor’s office. InsideHigherEd.com reports from their Senate: “A series of conflicts over the last year has highlighted issues related to communication and transparency, has opened serious rifts in our shared sense of community, and has contributed…
11/18/2013: Insidehighered has a report on the brief tenure of Robert Sternberg as President at Wyoming. Hired by the board to make change, he did, stepping on a lot of toes in the process, to the point he could no longer run the place. This is apparently not uncommon for…
11/17/13 update: A commenter points out that I was misinformed. UO just played the U of Utah, not USU. Whatever. I’ve added the UU data.