UO’s well paid NCAA FAR Jim O’Fallon, and his explanation for why UO students should spend their tuition money subsidizing athlete-only tutoring, is not getting much respect. In the RG, here: Free up money by cutting teams The University of Oregon president and the UO Board of Trustees have the…
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Story here. This is at UNC. I’ll go out on a limb and guess the money comes out of the academic budget, not from coaches’ pay.
3/16/2015: Diane Dietz has the report in the RG, here. Long story, many interesting quotes from Ralph, Coltrane, Rognlie, Freyd, and Duck PR flack Craig Pintens: [UO Trustee] Ginevra Ralph hesitated when she brought up the subject to fellow members of the University of Oregon Board of Trustees recently. She could…
That’s the word from those on the deptcomp listserv, who are not at all happy about the decision.
With TSA. Dashiell Paulson has the news in the RG, here.
3/15/2015: From InsideHigherEd.com, here: This article contains explicit and potentially offensive terms that are essential to reporting on this situation. Instead of practicing on Thursday, University of Oklahoma football players held a silent demonstration protesting the behavior of an Oklahoma fraternity that was caught on video using racist slurs while…
Sure, it’s a national problem, but not on *our* campus. From the 2015 InsideHigherEd survey of college presidents, via fivethirtyeight.com, with thanks to an anonymous reader: Back in 2012 the survey asked about athletics. College presidents also thought athletic spending and control were big problems – at other colleges, that…
I can’t imagine why they are stalling. With luck, Prof Tublitz will get these names in time for me to post them before the bargaining session with Jamie Moffitt starts: On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:22 PM, tublitz <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Ms Joubran: I submitted the following request over a month…
Former RG reporter Joe Moseley has the game news at goducks.com. Dana Altman’s contract gives him a $10K bonus for this Duck win, to top off his ~1.5M base: You can help pay Joe Young instead, at Fan Angel, here. The NCAA is a classic hiring cartel. College athletic departments…
For years Lorraine Davis, a former UO VP and current assistant to Provost Bronet for athletics, has been at the center of UO’s admissions of athletes that don’t meet regular academic standards. Now, just 2 days after the UO Senate voted to appoint two new faculty members to keep an…
FAR Jim O’Fallon: 0.5FTE at $195K FAR Tim Gleason: 0.5FTE at $219K Jim O’Fallon has been pulling down $100K or so a year to serve as UO’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative for 25 years, without any faculty review. Last summer Mike Gottfredson appointed retiring Journalism Tim Gleason to replace O’Fallon…
3/13/2015 update: And boy is PSU pissed. Allan Brettman has the report in the Oregonian, here: The state Higher Education Coordinating Commission on Thursday approved UO’s application to start a Master of Science in Sports Product Management. The program, long sought by the region’s sports products companies, will enroll students…
UO Undergraduate Thomas Tullis got the video of a UOPD Officer making some extremely false statements about the First Amendment, to an extremely patient anti-abortion protester. The cop is very calm and professional about trying to keep the peace, but everything he says about UO and free speech is completely unconstitutional…