7/14/2009: I’m no economist, but it’s hard to read the email below without thinking Lariviere has just pulled off a real hat trick with the OUS Board. Even after discounts recent tuition increases have got to bring in about $20 million a year. The cut in state funding seems like…
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Alex Tomchak Scott of the ODE has a clarifying article on Lariviere’s decision to reverse Frohnmayer’s decision to move finals to the week *after* graduation so that none of that unpleasant education stuff will interfere with the NCAA Track meet. Beans’s recent email to the faculty tried to attribute Lariviere’s…
Suzanne Pardington at the Oregonian writes a story about the OUS Board voting to let UO raise tuition 7.9%.
7/5/2009: The RG has an editorial about Lariviere here. (With the apparently obligatory sloppy kiss to Frohnmayer.) There’s some vague talk about faculty salaries – but nothing specific on how he plans to deal with it, beyond some statements about how the sciences and professional schools have done better than…
6/24/2009: Yes, posting is random for a while. Don’t worry, the expected value will be high.
6/16/2009: No responses yet to our public records requests for data on the Bend program losses, the $3 million on Johnson Hall remodeling, and we are still waiting for copies of Frohnmayer’s retirement contract and Lariviere’s contract – presumably meaning that they are still haggling out the details with OUS.…
6/8/2009: After a year on the job Provost Jim Bean discovers – from a news article in a Missouri student newspaper we posted here – that UO’s faculty are the lowest paid in the AAU. This is after he wasted a huge chunk of IR and Senate time trying to…
6/5/2009: UO’s Under-represented Minority Recruitment Plan or UMRP gives $90,000 to departments that hire faculty who self-report as racial or ethnic minorities. What do those faculty spend this money on? Here is a link to the accounting statement for one history professor’s UMRP account. He took $62,000 as supplemental summer…
WWeek, Frohnmayer rogue of week for hiding public recordshttp://wweek.com/editorial/2008/04/23/dave-frohnmayer/
Senior administrators at UO earn 100% of their comparators.President Frphnmayer earns $150,000 more than his comparators.UO Faculty earn 83% of their comparators.We’ve taken voluntary cuts for years. When Frohnmayer and the VPs have given back enough salary to get down to 83% like us, we should have a serious conversation.
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(From May 2009) MEMORANDUMTo: Units receiving ICC beginning budget allocationsFrom: Rich LintonSubject: ICC Beginning Budget Allocations- FY10 ICC- FY10 Beginning Budget The ICC beginning budget for FY10 will be posted in the coming days, and I write to communicate two key decisions regarding the overall allocations effective July 1, 2009.…
ADMIN TEAM DELAYS BARGAINING UNTIL 1PM TODAY, TUESDAY. GLEASON DRIVES OFF, TOLD TO CHECK FOOTBALL PALACE CUSHIONS FOR LOOSE CHANGE: CECIL RALLIES FACULTY FOR 14.5%, OR STRIKE: Bargaining: Tuesday 9/3/2013, 1pm-4pm(?), Room 122 or 101 Knight Library.9:00 AM: Gottfredson meeting with his $100K a month bargaining team: The most recent admin…
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/uauoregon.org/files/2012/11/Article-39-Distribution-of-the-Agreement.pdf