Discounts for the faculty? You know that had to hurt. They’re cheaper on stubhub, but it’s the thought that counts. The JH administrators get in free of course. Well, free to them. The academic budget gives athletics $375K for 80 seats, part of the secret Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal. 9/5/2012. Dear University of…
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We had a post a while ago about how the Ducks were auctioning off football game jerseys to cover their mounting deficits. LaMike was not amused. But now it’s used women’s soccer team shorts – complete with certificate of authenticity. Surely there’s a classier way to pay for the UO administration’s family…
per week, last 52 weeks. The spikes are the Lariviere firing and Gottfredson hiring. The most popular recent document downloads are Randy Geller’s resume and Robin Holmes’s EMU election plan. 9/4/2012.
The Ducks may be a money loser for UO’s academic side, but they’ve been a gold mine for ambitious area sportswriters. A few years back ODE reporter Ryan Knutson turned his exposes of Kilkenny’s Matt Court arena financing scheme into an associate producer job at Frontline. Last week George Schroeder…
According to an NBER working paper: In The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (NBER Working Paper No. 18075), Michael Lovenheim and Lockwood Reynolds find that a $10,000 increase in a family’s housing wealth in the four years before they send a child off…
From McClean’s, via Insidehighered: Barry said he offers student dancers around $1,700 each semester for tuition, but in exchange, they must maintain a B average in school.
From some nice data visualization tools on Chronicle.com: and and spending (note that this is spending by the institution, not cost to the student.) relative to our OUS defined peers: and here’s info on our student faculty ratio: and just to mix it up a little:
Congrats to @oregonstateuniv for making the Fiske Guide. We need to increase the number of #OR schools on this list. goo.gl/fMlvA — John Kitzhaber (@GovKitz) August 27, 2012
That would be Michael Strine at UVA, not Jim Bean at UO. The truth about what Jim Bean, Randy Geller, and Lorraine Davis did or did not do to help the OUS board fire Lariviere will take someone with the patience to spend a few days in the UO archives,…
What are the chances our new VPFA Jamie Moffitt is building these sorts of costs into her new auditable athletics overhead calculations? Opportunity cost of the President’s time? It’ll be progress if she just counts the $2 million Jock Box tutoring bill. 8/8/2012.
via the Oregonian: The Chronicle of Higher Education has named 103 public and private colleges as “2012 Great Colleges to Work For,” but no Oregon colleges made the cut. The weekly newspaper based its rankings on a survey of 47,000 college and university employees. They cited communication, respect and good compensation…
In the Oregonian, here. In case anyone is wondering how the Ducks affect state sentiment for a more independent UO. While I’m posting random links, anyone remember this particular bit of Duck intimidation? Even those who disagree with Sohlberg’s challenge to the sign could have been more vigorous in upholding…
8/4/2012: Jeff Manning of the Oregonian has a story on the woes of recent Oregon law school graduates: increasing debt, flat salaries, falling employment rates. One fact that surprised me: over the past 10 years the number of Oregon lawyers has increased by 10%, about the same rate as population…
That would be Governor McDonnell of Virginia (R), reacting to the UVA President turmoil – and not Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon (D). Washington Post story here. 8/1/2012.
From the most interesting legal blog. David Post raises new questions about the NCAA’s fine of Penn State: So the NCAA has now imposed sanctions on the Penn State athletic program for its many failures, including a $60 million fine and various other restrctions on their athletic program (designed, as the NCAA…