5/11/2013: We wouldn’t want to have the football players mingling with students at meals. Might give them the wrong idea about why they’re in college.
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Motion to have the UO athletic department pay the costs of athlete only tutoring and the Knight Arena land, passed 19 to 4 with 4 abstentions on 5/8/2013. President Gottfredson’s report to Senate due 7/8/2013. Payments by the Athletics Department for Academic Purposes Number: US12/13-20 Date of Notice: Wed, 02/13/2013 Legislation,…
5/3/2013: UO tuition increases. Diane Dietz reports in the RG on UO’s proposed 6% tuition and fee increase. That’s at least $15M in new tuition revenue on top of the the $29M or so from last year. The union wage proposal costs about $25M, but not until 2014-15. From OUS: And…
Call me old-fashioned. I thought it was a trifle déclassé for our athletic department to sell Duck women’s soccer shorts on the internet – complete with a certificate of authenticity. But it must have helped cover Kelly’s bonuses. Now they’re selling tickets to the cheerleader tryouts for $5: I guess this is safe for…
4/29/2013: That’s my read of this AP story: … The school had previously insisted it would continue to pursue acrobatics and tumbling despite the ruling. But on Friday, it backed away from that position. “The court has ruled that acrobatics and tumbling is not in their view an approved NCAA…
4/28/2013: Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian reports on the tradeoff: Oregon operates the second-most-expensive public preschools in the nation, at a cost of more than $8,500 per child for a half-day, Head Start-like program, according to a study released Sunday night. Partly because of the high costs, the state has to…
4/24/2013. Harry Esteve has the bloody details in the Oregonian.
4/24/2013. In the Oregonian. And where did UO’s money go? The ODE has a hint, here. $3 million a year in new costs, recurring. We pay Jamie Moffitt $290K a year, recurring, to control this sort of thing. Instead she’s lecturing the faculty about how much science start-ups cost.
The NYT has a discussion following up on the decision by Spellman to shift the money from a few “student-athletes” to general personal wellness programs. 4/23/2013.
According to the link here. Dental hygienists make 69K? Worst career choice: Newspaper reporter. I’d take this with a grain of salt. 4/23/2013.
Monday 4/22/2013 is the last day to volunteer for appointments, and to run for the Senate and elected committees. List of who has volunteered so far is here. To: Faculty, Officers of Administration, Classified StaffFrom: Christopher Prosser, senate executive coordinatorRe: UO Senate Committee Service Preference Form Now is the time to sign…
4/19/2013: From Editor Nick Ekblad, on the Commentator Blog: WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HATE! So much that we made this hate document! Now is your chance to unleash your hatred at/for/via the Oregon Commentator! FREE SUDSY T-SHIRT FOR THE BEST HATE ESSAY Well-grounded hate is quintessential because its ugly alternatives…
Report That Blamed Shrinking Faculty Workloads for Rising College Costs Is Retracted. From the Chronicle. 4/18/2013.
4/15/2013: Mark Thoma of the UO Economics department and The Economist’s View blog considers the possibility in his talk on academic blogging, given at a Kaufmann Foundation conference Friday:
4/13/2013. I made a mistake, and I want to correct the record and try to make amends. I’ve been claiming UO’s Randy Geller has been paying Sharon Rudnick $400 an hour to run the administration’s negotiations with the faculty union. This was based on documents her HLGR firm gave Marion County Judge Thomas…