We’re at 91 to 1, next closest is OSU at 98 to 1, then PSU at 155 to 1. From a report OUS had to file with the legislature, full dump here: Of course the real bloat is in “special provost’s assistants” per student.
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UO Senate rules call for an annual written report from our NCAA FAR. It’s been years since UO’s FAR Jim O’Fallon did that. (O’Fallon is well known for his work on the NCAA Infractions Committee, including the infamous Nate Miles investigation.) It’s also been a long time since UO’s 2004…
Most universities post the finalist’s names, cover letters and vitae online. UO typically opts to wait until the last minute. Still, at least we’ve got multiple finalists this time: Dear Campus Community, On behalf of the search committee, I am pleased to announce that we have selected four strong finalists…
Just kidding, sports are sacred. They’re challenging tax-breaks for “non-profit” hospitals, because of big salaries and small public benefits. The NYT has the story here. In other charitable giving news, it’s still possible to give to the university employee’s Charitable Fund Drive. You can allocate your gift to a plethora…
Duck football brings still more glory and invaluable publicity to the University of Oregon. UO’s contract with athletic director Rob Mullens pays him an extra $50,000 for the work and good publicity associated with getting the Ducks into a bowl game: But he faces no penalties for allowing the coaches to…
At UC-Boulder, Scott Jaschik has the story in InsideHigherEd.
The blog is http://hiredgunsandhiredhelp.blogspot.com/. No word on whether or not Gleason and Geller have defamed the authors yet. We’ll keep an eye on the craziness that is sure to ensue with Rudnick’s crew. Remember, don’t sign until they bring out the goat! The official UO GTFF union website is here:…
By UO Journalism student Riley Stevenson in the RG.
That would be the administration of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. And as it happens UO law professor John Bonine is in the Ukraine now, and has filed this report with the RG, here: It was 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and it was cold throughout Ukraine — no more than 12…
Nick Budnick and Jeff Manning of the Oregonian explain how Oregon wasted $160M – that’s enough for 3 years funding for UO – on this.
That’s the take from OPB reporter Steve Law, in the RG: For those affected, it’s roughly a 2 percent hit. The PERS actuary calculated that a typical 55-year-old retiring Dec. 1 on Money Match would avert a 1.9 percent reduction in his or her pension that takes effect starting with…
Here’s my reply to Randy’s “Happy Holidays, you slackers” message to the UO faculty. No wonder he’s so bitter – he just blew $1M in UO money on anti-union lawyers like Sharon Rudnick and permanently trashed his chances of finding another university that will hire him. The faculty, on the…
Good report, here.
That would be in China, according to the NYT.
12/10/2013 update: All in all, this meeting was a refreshing effort by Scott Coltrane and Brad Shelton to tell the faculty a little about what’s going on at UO and get some feedback about where to go w.r.t. future priorities. About 30 faculty risked frostbite and ostracism by the administration to show up and ask some skeptical questions.
The presentation on enrollment patterns was well done, and led to a good discussion about tradeoffs. No big surprises: UO students are well below our comparators in SATs and in graduation rates.
The information about faculty output and research, on the other hand, was pretty amateurish. We got the same basic story discussed in my November analysis of Coltrane’s benchmarking report, here. UO’s faculty is extremely productive when it comes to graduating undergraduates – twice the number of the other AAU publics. Not so much and falling when it comes to PhDs. There was no effort to control for med school / engineering school effects. Shelton and Coltrane got called out on this many times, and asked how they expected us to meaningfully contribute to discussion about academic priorities without good data. UO has these data, but for whatever reason they decided not to show them to the faculty. After the complaints, they promised to do so at a future meeting. This response was also a welcome improvement in transparency.
The most disappointing part to me, and judging by the questions, also to others, was the near total absence of financial data. It’s hard to talk about priorities when you don’t know the constraints. Shelton insisted that the only reliable data was that UO’s budget, per undergraduate, is about half the AAU average. The meeting concluded with a discussion of whether or not we could stay in the AAU, and whether or not we should try, given the opportunity cost.
As it happens, Johnson Hall has been much more forthcoming with the new UO Board than it ever has been with the faculty, and I’ve been able to get the documents from the first Board meeting. I haven’t had time to look them over yet, but the comments are open:
- 01 Overview.pdf
- 02 Diversity.pdf
- 03 Academic.pdf
- 04 Faculty and Staff.pdf
- 05 Research.pdf
- 06 Students.pdf
- 07 Finance.pdf
- 08 Athletics.pdf
- 09 University Advancement.pdf
- 10 Benchmarking.pdf
- Admissions viewbook 2014 resident.pdf
- Letter from the President.pdf
- Notice of Meeting 11 11 13_0.pdf
- Notice of Meeting 102413.pdf
- Orientation Meeting Agenda 102913.pdf
- Orientation Meeting Agenda 111113_0.pdf
- Powering the State’s Economy 2013.pdf
- UO OEM Annual Report 2012.pdf
- UO Snapshot 2013 FINAL 02-05-13 rev 10-15-13.pdf
12/2/2013: Coltrane on benchmarking and priorities
Dear Campus Community,
As the President described in remarks to the Senate at its last meeting, I invite you to