Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring Money.’ In the WSJ: Through it all, schools operated in a culture that valued unrelenting growth and prioritized raising revenue over cutting costs. Administrators established ambitious strategic plans and tried to lure wealthy students with luxurious amenities. Influential college rankings…
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Dear University of Oregon community, I am pleased to share that the University of Oregon will join the Big 10 Conference in August of 2024. I am thrilled we have the opportunity to join the nation’s preeminent academic-athletic conference. Our student-athletes will participate at the highest level of collegiate athletic competition,…
In terms of full professor salaries, that is. Data from the AAUP: Average Full Prof Salary Northwestern University 235 University of Maryland, College Park 191 University of Michigan 189 Rutgers University–New Brunswick 185 Pennsylvania State University 172 Michigan State University 171 University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign 171 University of Wisconsin–Madison 170…
Just kidding, sports is what they care about: Hello, The UO Board of Trustees (BOT) will hold an emergency meeting today, August 4, 2023 at 2:30 pm PT. This meeting will be held remotely via videoconference with a livestream link available for members of the public and the media. The topic of…
Just kidding, his first act will be to give a huge raise to the football coach. James Crepea has the story in the Oregonian, here: Lanning signed a six-year, $29.1 million in December 2022. He earned $4.6 million in salary last season, plus $100,000 for winning nine regular season games…
I blame UO’s left wing faculty for indoctrinating these Duck student-athletes with the belief that they have the right to any part of the money that AD Mullens and his coaches have earned with their own toil and sweat (and some very successful lobbying by the NCAA hiring cartel, to…
Once we had regular coverage from the Oregonian and the Register Guard, but those newsrooms have been gutted and GC Kevin Reed uses fees and delays to make it difficult for any reporters left to get the public records that might reveal what’s really going on at Oregon’s flagship university.…
7/12/2023 Dear Mr. Harbaugh, Records responsive to your request for “…all briefing materials prepared by the OtP or President’s Office and provided to Incoming President Scholz as part of his presidential transition.” can be accessed via this link. Please note that access will expire in five business days on 07/19/2023. Please note that some…
You thought they hired him to run a university? From The Daily Northwestern, thanks to a reader for the link: Content warning: This article contains mention of hazing, sexual assault and suicidal ideation. A former Northwestern University football player told The Daily some of the hazing conduct investigated by the…
Free tickets to the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships! TrackTown USA is offering University of Oregon faculty, staff, and students 2 free tickets to the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships on Saturday, July 8th at Hayward Field. Additional tickets can be purchased for $10 ($40 face value). Come seethe best athletes in the…
Dear University of Oregon community members, I am thrilled to have arrived on campus and to begin serving as your president. It is such an honor to lead this outstanding university and work alongside all of you to advance our mission and impact. In the video that accompanies this message…
One of these was written for our Interim Pres and Provost by UO’s overpaid PR flacks, the other was generated in 10 seconds by ChatGPT with the prompt “Write a public statement from a university president saying that the university will maintain its commitment to diversity despite today’s SCOTUS decision…
Shocking decision here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Irvin seems like a good choice. This was the job Woodruff-Borden was hired to do in 2019, before she somehow ended up as Interim Provost. Needless to say it’s very unlikely that she actually made this selection! Note that, in contrast to previous admin searches under her and Phillips, she…