Andrew Greif has the explanation here: a large downward shift in demand from fans with better things to do. But don’t cry for Willie Taggart yet, AAD Eric Roedl will respond by hitting up our students for still more money.
UO Matters
Dylan Darling in the RG here.
From the informative transformit.uoregon.edu website: A message from Jessie Minton, Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer: I am excited to announce an important change in the way the university will proceed with Transform IT. We will first inventory IT services offered across the university, and then we…
Patrick Hruby’s award winning long-form report has one hell of a lede: While the NCAA’s rules governing college athletes are colorblind, the impact of amateurism is anything but—disproportionately costing black football and men’s basketball players and benefiting white stakeholders by as much as $2 billion a year. … Today he…
Nature is of course one of the most prestigious, highest impact science journals. Their editors think UO’s new plan has it backwards. Instead of making decisions about budget and pay based on what faculty have already published, they think we should give money to promising faculty, to do promising new…
The RG has his obit here. I only met him once, at the Lariviere firing meeting in Portland. He was furious at Pernsteiner, Kitzhaber, and the OUS board. Here’s his op-ed from the Oregonian, published just before that meeting: On Monday, the State Board of Higher Education will meet to…
It was the tweet.* Jack Pitcher has the scoop in the Emerald. I wonder if Tom Hart, the Duck’s social media cop, caught it? Maybe Rob Mullens will get Dana Altman under control next. * Instagram, actually. Is there a “team rule” about that too?
The RG reports on the legal settlement of a case of the latter kind: … While working as a professor of exercise science, Richardson advised NCU officials in May 2015 that she was an expectant mother. In response, university administrators gave her a choice: If she wanted to keep her job,…
Read it all – many twists and turns. Obviously this has an OSU focus, but particularly towards the end it is filled with info relevant to UO etc.
A Review of the 2017 Legislative Session
With the adjournment of the 2017 legislative session last Friday afternoon, this issue provides a summary of the session, including:
- The big picture and a prognosis for the next year;
- How OSU’s legislative priorities fared;
- Other bills that captured our attention and time; and
- Acknowledgements for all the help we received over the last seven months.
The Big Picture
As described in previous updates, the legislature entered the session with a list of “mega issues” that demanded attention in order to balance the budget and address real problems facing Oregonians across the state. Over the course of the session the items on this list ebbed and flowed, but they generally included:
- Revenue reform (tax increases);
- Investments in transportation infrastructure;
- Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) reform;
- Health care reform, including a health provider tax and bolstering the state-financed health care system that was susceptible to changes at the federal level;
- Housing affordability; and
- Overall cost management/cost cutting for state agencies.
Letter in the Emerald, here: … In a recent anonymous survey of SEIU 503 members working at the UO Health Center (UHC) – including licensed and non-licensed staff – 83 percent of respondents reported having seen specific coworkers being targeted and held to a different standard than their colleagues. 70…
7/12/2017 update: Dear Mr. Harbaugh: Below please find the names of the vendors who responded to procurement number 900100-00012-RFP, responsive to your request made on 07/12/2017. • Berkeley Research Group, LLC • Gallagher Benefit Services Inc. • Robert K. Toutkoushian, Ph.D. • Sibson Consulting The office considers this be fully responsive to your request, and will now close this…
Bridgepoint’s stock is way up since the Trump election and his appointment of Betsy DeVos, who is busy gutting the Obama administration’s crackdown on exploitative for-profit universities. Bridgepoint owns Ashford University and the University of the Rockies. And it looks like easy money: Appointment of George Pernsteiner as Director On July…
That would be the Oregon State University Board, which has an admirably transparent website and policies.