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Thanks to an anonymous UOF Board member for suggesting I post this info.

From 2022 to 2023, UO Foundation CEO Paul (Ronald) Weinhold’s pay increased 23%, to $642,673. CFO Kelly Bosch’s pay increased $54%, to $317,846.

From 2013 to 2023, Weinhold’s pay increased by 101%. The pay for the average UO faculty member increased from $89,900 to $122,900, or 35%.

This money comes from an annual tax that the Foundation charges on the value of endowment gifts.

This of course is not “PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL” information, despite the Foundation’s scary words below. It comes from the IRS 990 forms that the Foundation is required to provide to anyone who asks, and which Propublico eventually posts here. Many not-for-profits post these on their websites, but not Weinhold and Bosch – who also run out the allowable extensions, so that the numbers for the fiscal year that ended June 30 will not be public until May 15 2015. I’ve posted the 2023 reports here and here.

From: “Kelly Bosch (UO Foundation Accounting Department)” <[email protected]>

Subject: RE: IRS 990 request [Request updated: #80355]

Date: July 9, 2024 at 7:51:58 AM PDT

To: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]>

Reply-To: UO Foundation Accounting Department <[email protected]>

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Kelly Bosch (University of Oregon Foundation) Jul 9, 2024, 07:51 PDT Good morning, Please find the attached fiscal year ended 2023 Federal 990 tax returns for the UO Foundation and the UO Foundation Supporting Organization. Thank you, Kelly This information, and any attachment, is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL property of the University of Oregon Foundation. Any unauthorized reproduction, dissemination or disclosure is prohibited.

An endowment to provide free tuition to most Johns Hopkins medical students and all costs for many, presumably in perpetuity. In the WSJ here.

The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India

• Eyal Frank
• Anant Sudarshan

As of 10:20PM on 7/2, from https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination. Interestingly this is not affecting the odds of a Trump win (~60%).

Have Jamie Moffitt and Brian Fox found the money to pay the faculty like they pay JH administrators? Will the union demand $130K research and alcohol budgets for faculty too? How late will the administration team be this time? Show up and find out. From the faculty union: BargainingJoin us…

That would of course be Oregon State, for Assistant and Associate Profs. UO’s Fulls are still slightly ahead. The last time I looked, about 10 years ago, UO salaries were about 5% above OSU’s. Obviously the mix of disciplines is different, but I’d have expected UO’s shift away from liberal…

Faculty turnout was about 60 on zoom and another 60 in the room, plus some overflow in the hall. Pretty good, considering we’re a long way from ramping up the pressure. The Admin team showed up 15 minutes late then drug a 15-minute break out for 35 minutes. I’d expected…

He wouldn’t send me his contract but eventually Kevin Reed’s Public Records Office complied with the law and provided it: 2024-PRR-471 … …

To the Law Faculty, the UO President, and the General Counsel, posted by request of Professor Raban: On May 23, UO President Karl Scholz announced that the university has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with UO Palestine—a coalition of four student organizations that demonstrated on campus for almost a month. The agreement includes, among…

Pres Karl Scholz contract 2023

And if the President job doesn’t work out, he’s got a fall-back guarantee of a sweet job as an Econ Professor – with no responsibilities for the first year:

Peace in the Middle East is so hard they give out Nobel peace prizes for participation. In comparison getting UO faculty pay back on the path to average just requires that President Scholz make the easy call to fire a few AVP’s and Ass Deans of this-and-that to cut administrative bloat back to its pre-covid level.

Here Math Prof Chris Sinclair explains to the UO Trustees why he thinks the faculty will strike if the Board and President Scholz continue to blow us off. Click the image for video:

It’s like when the road rash you got in that bike crash is mostly healed over but now you’ve got an itch you just gotta scratch, even though you know it’s gonna start bleeding again:

Reporter Tarek Anthony has the story here: 

In a conversation with the Daily Emerald, University of Oregon spokesperson Eric Howald confirmed that the university is considering a criminal investigation into pro-Palestine protesters interrupting UO President John Karl Scholz’ investiture ceremony at Matthew Knight Arena on May 30.

Protestors further vandalized campus property, which Howald said that UO is reviewing photo and video footage from this and the protestors’ actions at the ceremony. Howald confirmed that the school is using the documentation to pursue both criminal and academic charges against student protestors.

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