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…
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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.
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.)