The Duck’s Dana Altman now makes more than 3x as much as OSU’s basketball coach. John Canzano has the news on the 7% cut here. Details on Altman’s most recent raise, which Pres Schill and our Trustees gave him during the 2019 budget crisis, is here. A snippet. This is…
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Just kidding, Ralph threw them a few softballs. Then Chairman Chuck Lillis (best known for his role in the 2008 bankruptcy of WaMu) asked Mullens something about the Duck’s magical season, they all laughed and our Board of Trustees voted unanimously for it and for a new media licensing deal…
From what I can tell, Mullens is the only AD employee (except of course Lorraine Davis and the other Jock Box staff) paid out of UO’s E&G (or Education and General) budget bucket. Which means the academic side is on the hook for the $2.5M in retention bonuses Pres Schill…
(Note: updated with info from an always well informed commenter, who also points out that this blog and its commenters sometimes come across as uncaring about the staff and OA’s who keep the university running. She is right, and for my part I resolve to try and do better on that.)
They will still get health benefits – thanks to work by HR. Assuming an average salary of $30,000, this will save UO about $2.2M a quarter, or 1/6 of a Jumbotron. It will be a windfall for the employees, except perhaps the most recent hires and ones who are paid the highest, who would be eligible for other policies, such as key employee insurance. This can help insure all the extremely essential employees a company has. For full-time workers at $15 an hour, instead of $500 or so a week take home, they will get ~$400 in regular unemployment benefits, plus the $600 per week CARES act add-on. Part time workers will do even better in percentage terms.
Of course first Oregon’s Employment Division needs to figure out how to get the checks out. Their COBOL system crashed again this weekend. For context, back on March 6th 1933, the day after his inauguration, FDR closed the entire U.S. banking system in response to bank runs. That week he had the Federal Reserve fly bags of freshly printed currency to banks across the country, and almost all banks were reopened and cashing paychecks by March 15.
President Schill’s message below the break:
Sunday 4/12/2020 update: The recorded version of Friday’s Faculty Union Town Hall is now posted on youtube here:
The Administration’s Town Hall is here. Expect more updates from the union this week on job security, the Administration’s proposed pay cuts, and bargaining, at uauoregon.org.
Late Friday night update: I’m no cheap-ass faculty union treasurer, but apparently the free trial Zoom account was overloaded with viewers, so some people couldn’t see this live. The recorded version will be posted at uauoregon.org as soon as the public relations consultants figure out how to translate all the cuss words into Latin.
Rumor has it that the union leadership will discuss the salary cut proposals that have been floating around – and make it clear that any mandatory cuts must go to the union membership for a vote.
There is no truth to the rumors that your union spent your dues hiring a $253K VP for Strategic Miscommunication and a $150K former TV anchor to moderate this town hall, or that they used consultants to make sure that the union officers have tasteful, academicish zoom backgrounds. Here’s how to watch the low-budget and hopefully more informative Union response to the Administration’s effort, and submit questions:
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That said, the $3,600 car stipend wouldn’t buy half my ride: And President Schill is going to let Duck AD Rob Mullens hire still more:
And they’ve got some more real news here. Hadn’t really thought about the rat problem, until now.
4/9/2020: And now U of Louisville. 4/6/2020: That would be Iowa State University, in the Des Moines Register. Here at UO, President Schill has made it very clear that the Ducks can keep any money they save through these sorts of cuts, as well as whatever they get through increased donations.…
OTC (Travel Oregon). 24 hours and 9 minutes from public records request to the document: From: Bill Harbaugh <wtharbaugh@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:08 PM To: Jeff Hampton <jeff@traveloregon.com> Subject: Re: Jeff Hampton shared “Oregon21 Grant OR212018 (9.18)” with you. Hi Jeff, I’m writing to request any reports made…
And the Feds are already planning on additional higher ed funding, some of which will be conditioned on the state gov’t not decreasing its funding. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/allocationsforsection18004a1ofcaresact.pdf
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/874934843?pwd=LzNWeW5VcmY2N21BeHFOQ1BuN2VSQT09 Remember, any private chat comments made in a zeeting are archived. Use texts! Senate Meeting Agenda – April 8, 2020 Location: Zoom (Please see link to meeting below the agenda) 3:00 – 5:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron 3:08 P.M. Approval of…
Lots of interesting budget bucket tidbits in the Federally required EADA report on Duck athletic finances. This was one of their smaller expenditures:
I assume that mostly went to Mark Helfrich, who was fired in Fall 2016 after getting a fat contract from Chuck Lillis and our Board of Trustees the previous year, on the enthusiastic endorsement of AD Rob Mullens and Scott Coltrane, and without any signs of due diligence from our Board of Trustees or their Chair Chuck Lillis. I forget next coach’s name, but he didn’t last long either. The new coach (Cristobal?) has even bigger severance guarantees. President Schill’s new contract also includes some pretty expensive ones.
From a previous post:
In February [2015] the UO Board of Trustees gave big raises to Duck AD Rob Mullens and football coach Mark Helfrich, after a second place finish in last year’s championship. Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms kept the purpose of the meeting secret until the last minute, and even left the contracts off the docket of meeting materials. The board approved them with no discussion, after then Interim President Scott Coltrane enthusiastically endorsed the raises:
His full porkalicious contract is below the break.
The first one was of course Teddy – and the circumstances were remarkably similar, though the ultimate outcome was different. From Power and Responsibility, the Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: W.H. Harbaugh (New York, 1961). Pages 113-114, posted, sadly, without permission of the author: … The campaign [in Cuba]…
Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek: $106K strategic spokesperson Kay Jarvis responds, presumably from a safely quarantined location: “All contractors currently working on projects at the UO have been directed to follow all federal, state and local requirements and guidelines with regards to COVID-19. That includes guidelines on social distancing, additional hand-washing…