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…
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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.
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…
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.