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…
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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.
6/17/2013: Protesters showed up by the thousands … evolved into a broader movement by groups and individuals irate over a range of issues including … lavish new stadium projects. Whoops, never mind, that’s in Brazil. Here in Eugene everyone’s cool with Phil Knight’s plan to spend $5 million on new…
6/15/2013: In the Oregonian, here: … And Brad Avakian, Oregon’s labor commissioner, assures me he is anxious to prosecute an equally egregious case here. “If an intern comes to us and says, ‘I think I’m doing free work for my employer,’ we will investigate the case,” Avakian said Friday. “If they…
6/10/2013: Architect of Kitzhaber’s education plan plans to leave. Nigel Jaquiss has the scoop in WWeek. Some search firm sure took us on this guy – I wonder if they also handled the Medgar Evers presidential search?
6/10/2013: Betsy Hammond reports that only 61% of Oregon HS grads go on to college, vs. national average of 68%. 6/7/2013: New work by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney shows the returns to higher education are dramatically higher than stocks, or anything else, even for those who get some college…
6/6/2013: I’m all in favor of spending big bucks on fundraising. All the studies I’ve seen show it can pay off. But at UO most of the donations go to the jocks. I’m still waiting to see the Robin Jaqua gift letter, which may explain just how Duck athletic director…
(The Dec and Jan spikes were apparently a bug in counting iphone hits.)
There is a bug in blogger polls and it keeps dropping responses. I’m deleting all the polls. I’ll find a replacement program, since I think polls are fun.
5/29/2013: Details on Julie Hermann here. UO searches here and here, also by Parker Executive Searches.
5/29/2013: Oh wait, never mind. It’s Randy’s wife Jennifer Geller and the 4-J school board, bargaining with the 4-J teacher’s union.
5/17/2013: It sure looks that way to me, and Lane County Registrar Cheryl Betschart has asked him for an explanation. You remember Pernsteiner, right? Last time I asked this question Pernsteiner had his lawyer, Bill Gary of HLGR, send this response to the registrar, claiming Pernsteiner intended to return to…
Insidehighered, here. 5/16/2013.