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…
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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…
From Knocking at College’s Door from WICHE, the higher ed research group with the best acronym ever. The total number of Oregon HS graduates will peak in 5 years. The number of Hispanic HS graduates has doubled in 11 years, but will also peak in 2026. As for UO’s strategy…
It seems that, in the PAC-12, only UO General Counsel Kevin Reed is willing to claim that these numbers are protected by HIPAA. NYTimes report and data here:
I haven’t really been following the latest from Duck sports, so these may be old cases. Nothing on the UO covid page here, of course. Lane County Health link here.
Of course they lower the listed tuition price which is paid by higher income students, but it turns out they reduce the amount of needs-based support that universities provide low-income students by twice as much. I wonder how strong the inverse effect is – do increases in listed tuition lead…
Report from Pete Danko in the Portland Business Journal. Gated, but here’s the gist. This is the *monthly* pot tax revenue: The Oregon State Economist has more here: It will take legislative action to move this windfall to the general fund. The session opens January 19th.