Just kidding, that was the plan from UO’s 2001-4 Athletics Task Force, which included UO Pres Dave Frohnmayer, AD Bill Moos (soon fired by Phil Knight) and UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz. At the time the Duck Athletics budget was ~$37M, it’s now $127M, and there is no sign current…
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2/2/2021: No details on the deal til 4PM today. Maybe some wealthy UO donor finally decided to start paying for the students, like he pays for the coaches raises? While UO’s students pay the Ducks $1.7M a year for “free” tickets, at Maryland the athletic department pays the students to…
Also news about the latest largess from the Feds, and something about selling more bonds to pay for another expansion of the Athletic Village across from The Phildo and some other dorm renovations. No public comments will be heard. Meeting of the Board of Trustees February 2, 2021 | 1:30…
Maybe the $278,168 Pres Schill is paying his VP for Strategic Communications Kyle Henley just isn’t enough to induce him to provide his best work? Or maybe his best work is just not very good. UO’s efforts to help Eugene seem almost as impressive as UC-Davis’s. But while Henley can’t…
1/29/2021: For the week ending yesterday there were 406 reported positive tests in Lane County, 178 of which were UO students or employees. As shown below, Lane county cases that are not linked to UO are decreasing, while UO cases are increasing: Note that UO has a more rigorous testing…
Reporter Chelsea Pitarresi has the very well-reported story with interesting interviews in Ethos, the Daily Emerald’s forum for long-form reporting. I’m not going to post a snippet as it’s all worth reading, here.
UO administrators and Republican legislators love doom and gloom stories about the cost of PERS and its outrageous retirement benefits. But the truth is that they’re repeating fake news, and are now going to have to look for a new bogeyman. The truth is that the state could redirect a…
No info on their agenda yet, though they’ve picked an auspicious date: The Board of Trustees will hold an ad hoc meeting on February 2 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. This meeting will occur remotely given ongoing health guidance and operational practices. Livestream and telephone access will be available for members…
Compared to a pre-Covid predicted 3% annual increase, though presumably costs will rebound after elective tests and surgeries resume. I don’t know if PEBB will rebate the savings to UO, or add it to their reserves. If it’s a rebate, it would be about $1,300 in costs per employee, or…
Who wouldn’t be excited about this sort of publicity? A little homework – a concept Mr. Reed is apparently not familiar with – show’s it’s a scam. I wonder which of the many outside law firms Reed has hired paid his tab for this?
CBS here: “We appreciate Larry’s pioneering efforts in growing the conference by adding new competitive university programs and accelerating the Pac-12 to television network parity with the other conferences,” Oregon president Michael Schill said in a statement. “At one point, our television agreement was the most lucrative in the nation…
Daily Emerald reporter Claire Warner has the story here: … Launched in 2014, Chegg Study provides students 37 million Q&A’s “to help students better understand their schoolwork,” according to its website. While many of its customers use the service to do just that, some students pay the $14.95-per-month subscription fee to…
From Reason: This incident unfolded in Beaverton, Oregon, on January 16, according to The Oregonian. It was about 9 a.m., and the mom needed milk and meat. She put her four-year-old in the back seat, buckled him into his booster seat, and headed to the grocery store. She made sure to park right…
1/19/2021 update, posted with permission: Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:18 PMSubject: Re: PsychList: Inside Higher Ed reports on Jennifer Freyd’s Open Letter to UO Board of Trustees (and the support she has received for this) Dear Colleagues, Today I learned that the University of Oregon (UO) has decided to alter the…