1/18/2021 update: After years of paying buy-outs to fired coaches like Mark Helfrich, you’d think our General Counsel’s office would have a clue. But, in response to complaints, they’re claiming they’ve just now identified “a tax compliant way” to split the payments: NEW: Retirement Incentive may be split into two…
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It’s clear from the RG story here that the protocol problem is that a few of his unpaid student-athletes have tested positive trying to cover Altman’s $3.2M salary (before bonuses and perqs) with a relentless travel schedule, not that Altman is standing on a basketball court arguing without his mask:
3-5PM Wed Jan 13, Zoom link at https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94535299849 January 13, 2021 Senate Meeting Agenda Call to Order Land Acknowledgment; Suzie Stadelman Intro Remarks; Senate President Elliot Berkman/Vice President Spike Gildea ASUO updates Approval of the Minutes December 2, 2020 State of the University President Schill New Business US20/21-03: Change the majority…
This is from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021, and is on top of the $16M we got from the CARES act in 2020. Of the total $40M, $16M is reserved for student grants. I don’t know where the other $24M has gone/will go. The RG…
Dear University of Oregon faculty, I am writing again with this important reminder from the University of Oregon’s Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee (IAAC). The committee wants to remind all faculty about NCAA rules as they pertain to academic misconduct and academic extra benefits for student-athletes.While most NCAA rules do not…
I hope this is not true, and that the Duck boosters have figured out how to slip them some bitcoin along with the customary trinkets and sneakers. Here are the top earners for the Fiesta Bowl, which has managed to keep it’s non-profit status despite the scandal which lead to…
https://goducks.com/news/2020/12/30/womens-basketball-oregon-extends-contract-of-graves.aspx EUGENE, Ore. – University of Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens announced today that the University has reached an agreement on a contract extension with head women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves. The extension runs through the 2028-29 season, and the incremental increases are funded through private athletic gifts. In his seventh season with the…
How to give: click here to go to the UO Foundation donor page for SAIL, you know the rest of the drill. There’s a one page info sheet here. (OK, actually it’s two pages.) Some SAIL history and future, and how to volunteer: UO’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning was…
Every year Oregon holds a Charitable Fund Drive for state and university employees. Donations can be made by check, credit card, or convenient payroll deduction. The CFD has a long list of charities you can earmark your gifts to. The CFD reduces the cost to charities of fundraising and reduces…
Details are thin, but there are about 20 million college students in the US, and the legislation appropriates $20B. So call it $1,000 per student, which for UO would work out to about $20M. If the money was evenly distributed, which it won’t be.
From reporter Elizabeth Gabriel of KLCC, on OPB here: Administrators at the University of Oregon have stopped taking pay cuts, despite a $3.4 million dollar budget deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic. In April, 21 administrators volunteered to take salary deductions of 10%-12% for six months in order to help…
Eugene’s own Orchestra Next with the Nutcracker: Johnny Cash: Dolly Parton: The King: The Red Army Choir: BB King:
A bit off topic, but who doesn’t love a good confederate de-statufication video? This job might have gone quicker with just one chain around his neck, but not bad for government work. Turn up the sound or you might miss the laughing: And who will replace this traitorous slaver and…
Great moments in greenwashing from Around the O, here: “Tackling climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time,” Schill said. “Solving this problem requires a massive coalition working at all levels of our nation and across the world. The University of Oregon is pleased to contribute to…
By doing this on the phone rather than Zoom, Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has insured that we don’t have to look at Rob Mullens’s smug face, and that none of the reporters phoning in can understand a word the trustees are saying. I think I hear “budget deficit” and “raises…