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 If you’re curious about research activity at UO, you’ll have to wade through a bunch of outdated pdf’s, here.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…
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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…
There was a last minute cancellation of this session. I went to the meeting room, and it looks like the admin team took off to find some more money: Wed 7/23/2013, 1PM – 4PM. 122 Knight Library. I’ll live blog it. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts are…
7/22/2013 update: Some fodder for the UO Trustees counter-proposal on raises to be presented Tuesday. IR should have new salary data from the AAU data exchange soon, but the sharing agreement says it can’t be posted on the web. 4/8/2013 update: The AAUP released its latest salary report, showing average faculty…
7/18/2013: I asked a few of the legislators who voted against SB 270 if they would send a statement explaining the reasons for their vote, to post on UO Matters. Here are the replies I received. Comments welcome: Senator Floyd Prozanski (Eugene): As much as I support individual governing boards,…
7/9/2013: Those are some classy earmarks at the bottom. Is the $15m tuition deal good news or bad news for UO’s budget? Every 1% cut to in-state tuition costs us roughly $100 a head, or maybe $1.5 million a year. My guess is pretty close to a wash. Oregon University System The Subcommittee…
7/3/2013: UO “top scholars” admissions officer David Van Der Haegen in the RG Letters: The Register-Guard clearly displayed what it viewed as the single most important news of the day on June 27. Of course, it was the fact that the Oregon Ducks football team would be spared the horrific fate of…
6/25/2013: Sam Stites has the story in the RG: Earlier this month, the UO’s office of marketing and brand management sent out a request for proposals for anyone seeking to manufacture Ducks apparel, requiring a guarantee starting July 1 of a least $500,000 a year in royalties to be paid…
6/24/2013: My original post on my ethics complaint regarding Rudnick, Gary, and Geller here. Some excerpts from the brief submitted by the Oregon DOJ to the Court of Appeals last Monday, arguing for a substantial reduction in HLGR’s $562K legal fees. Big pdf here.
6/22/2013: A small step for the faculty. Very small. Why does the UO Senate Coordinator report to Dave Hubin? Job ad here: Title: Executive Coordinator for the Statutory Faculty and University Senate Department: President’s Office Reports to: Sr. Assistant to the President and the Senate President Salary Range: $38,000 to…
6/20/2013: “Around the O” has an obituary of Cathleen Leue, longtime UO economics professor and CASIT director, and a wonderful person.