4/24/2021 update: When I first wrote about this earlier this month a reader emailed me wondering if UO had notified the investors holding the Knight Arena bonds that UO VPFA Jamie Moffitt had loaned out the reserve fund. It turns out that she hadn’t even told the Oregon State Treasurer.…
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Full log here: https://publicrecords.uoregon.edu/requests Request Date Title Requester Status 04/08/2021 Invoices Houston, Henry Awaiting Payment from Requester 04/06/2021 RFP Mead, Max Records Exempt From Disclosure 04/05/2021 Contract Hernandez, Luis Records Provided 04/05/2021 Contract Hernandez, Luis Records Provided 04/05/2021 Contracts Young, Carrie Awaiting Payment from Requester 04/02/2021 Financial Records Harbaugh, Bill…
April 7, 2021, on zoom here: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94175088714 Call to Order Land Acknowledgment; Kirby Brown Intro Remarks; Senate President Elliot Berkman and Senate VP Spike Gildea ASUO updates Approval of the Minutes March 10, 2021 State of the University President Schill New Business Vote: US20/21-11: Human Research Protection Program policy; Emily Tanner-Smith…
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UO’s Law School gives the average student a 50% discount on tuition. The cost of this is now $8M a year. The money comes from UO’s general fund – which is mostly undergrad tuition for College of Arts Sciences students, and state funds: You’d think that would buy us a…
From a NYT Op-Ed here: Kyle Raze, a graduate student in economics at the University of Oregon, studied turnout patterns in the wake of the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. The court declared Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required jurisdictions with a history…
Jack Stripling has the report in the Chronicle, here. These were LSU Board meetings, presumably he’ll get around to trashing OSU soon. Here’s hoping he kept screenshots of those secret NCAA portal communications. Those will be crucial to making sure the other big-time college sports presidents help him find his…
3/23/2021 updates on twitter: Oregon State to buy out F. King Alexander for ~0.7 Gottfredsons, from “private funds”. Both sides to release all claims. No word on WittKiefer refund, no apparent recognition from Board that they got rolled and failed at due diligence. Heartfelt remarks from Trustee & former BB…
I assume that’s what this Oregonian news report says, I didn’t read it all: https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/03/oregon-state-university-trustees-call-special-meeting-tuesday-to-again-consider-fate-of-f-king-alexander-as-osu-president.html 8:30 AM Tu, https://leadership.oregonstate.edu/trustees/meetings/board-meeting-03232021 And their Exec committee has a followup meeting 8AM Wed: https://leadership.oregonstate.edu/sites/leadership.oregonstate.edu/files/210319_public_meetings_notice.pdf
Every professor I know gets spam like this about fake academic conferences with prestigious sounding names, held in popular holiday locations. They accept all papers, have a similarly unreviewed “journal”, and I assume some people try to get reimbursement for them, or try to use them to pad their c.v.…
Public meeting notice for 12:30 Wed here. The OSU Trustees hired Alexander last year, after a closed search by Witt/Kieffer search consultants. At LSU Alexander’s accomplishments included a $85M “lazy river” and firing a professor for cussing. But these weren’t his only problems. Former Daily Emerald reporter Kenny Jacoby, now working…
Thanks to an anonymous reader for forwarding the course description, full text below. President Schill’s own porkalicious contract, which will presumably be #3 on the reading list when it comes to reasons for the increasing cost of college – after faculty pay and guvmint interference – is here: and, just…
Reporter Joanna Mann, in the Daily Emerald here: … UO social media accounts faced backlash from students, particularly graduating seniors, after the school announced the decision Feb. 9. Students called for the university to cancel the in-person Olympic trials if it was going to cancel in person commencement. Graduating senior Ethan Shafer…
Senate Pres Elliot Berkman had tried to keep the Senate from voting on this, but the students were persistent and persuasive, and in the end the only nay votes were from an LCB accounting instructor and a Math prof. The gist: 2.1 THEREFORE BE IT MOVED THAT the University Senate…