UO Matters
This cost is borne by those young and reckless enough to choose to handle an inflammable carcinogen, if not for the beneficent rule of law. On the other hand the ban is a cross-subsidy to those old and wise enough to leave gasoline to trained professionals, who would otherwise have…
Wow this sure takes me back to this blog’s early days. Interestingly OSU has so little trust in their trustees and the Isaacson Miller search firm that the board had to hire *another* firm to do due diligence on IM’s due diligence. I wonder what they dug up on Charles.…
Our Board of Trustees once again indulges the urge to show how happy they are with themselves for hiring President Schill by giving him another series of large raises, bonuses, and extra retirement contributions, paid for with other people’s money: To be rubber-stamped by the board after the usual happy-talk,…
From Eric Kelderman at the Chronicle, thanks to a regular reader for forwarding: After being chosen in a closed search process, F. King Alexander didn’t last a whole year as president at Oregon State University. Now, the university’s Board of Trustees is taking a different approach to appoint his successor.…
My scotch consumption is not exactly a secret to regular readers, but I had no idea how far my reputation had spread:
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices Publick Benefits, 1714: Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together. Pres Schill, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, today: … First, a disclaimer. The University of Oregon has been fortunate to receive three extremely large donations…
I can picture them in the JH conference room chuckling over the divide-and-conquer possibilities. “This will teach them to bring up equity again!” Who do they pay to come up with these ideas? Brad Shelton? Kevin Reed? Jeff Chicoine? The latest bargaining news from your union: The administration’s lawyer opened…
And apparently the jurors bought it, letting the cartel off. UO had already paid Brenner $500K. I haven’t been following the case, so I don’t know if former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason admitted that his supervision as “Faculty” Athletic Representative was deficient, or was exactly what AD Rob Mullens…
I missed the part where Provost Phillips and President Schill consulted with shared governance in these decisions. Rumor has it that the Deans also feel a bit left out. In any case here is Johnson Hall’s latest:
Pres Schill wants to give NCAA cartel anti-trust protection to ease exploitation of college athletes
From a webinar at Quinnipiac College: “What we need to do is make sure the NIL reflects the value that the students’ name, image and likeness has instead of inducement of donors and boosters,” Schill said. “We need federal legislation that provides a uniform, federal definition of allowable NIL so…
InsideHigherEd has the story: Iowa State University announced Thursday that it is leaving the Association of American Universities. The news revived a debate over the AAU’s membership criteria. “While the university’s core values have not changed since joining the association in 1958, the indicators used by AAU to rank its members have…
Rumor down at the faculty club is that JH has decided we can’t keep the current Interim Dean because what with our Provost and President, white males are already over-represented in UO’s senior leadership. Here’s hoping the winner negotiates a large cut in the subsidy CAS is paying to prop…
Pres Schill and Prov Phillips save the good news for the end. Here’s hoping this is the start of a compete reform of UO’s budgeting, planning, and Institutional Research offices. At well-run universities these are staffed with competent professionals who provide credible timely information to the central administration and are…