Not the UO Foundation. The OSU Foundation. Their helpful public records person sent me their 990 the day after I asked for it, here. In comparison, as in past years, the University of Oregon Foundation seems determined to drag out the release of their IRS 990 non-profit reporting form until…
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“Above the Law” has the news about US News rankings, here. UO was #77 when we hired Michael Moffitt as Dean, and I believe #82 is as high as we’ve been since. UO was helped by a change in the algorithm that reduced the weight on temporary jobs that law…
I’ve followed with an email to PR asking for the price on just part b), and to Dean Lim, asking if she’ll provide these directly. No response from either, yet. Dear Mr. Harbaugh: The University of Oregon has received your public records request for “a) documents from external reviewers, consultants…
Good for the student for reporting this. It must have taken a lot of courage. From the Diane Dietz scoop in the RG, it sounds like UO handled it pretty quickly: The freshman, in a recent interview with The Register-Guard, said UO officials took her report seriously and “acted upon…
3/7/2014 update: A year after the initially undisclosed lobbying efforts of HLGR’s Dave Frohnmayer and Bill Gary helped defeat the first attempt:
NEWS RELEASE
March 4, 2015
Governor Kate Brown Signs Legal Aid Bill
(Salem, OR) — Today, Governor Kate Brown signed House Bill 2700, sending unclaimed damage awards to legal aid, instead of going back to the company that was sued.
“This law makes Oregon’s class action laws fair for all Oregonians and ensures that corporations who are responsible compensate for the harm they have caused, and helps support our critically underfunded legal services,” said Governor Kate Brown. link to photos
3/6/2014: Buying Dave Frohnmayer pays off big for Philip Morris and BP Legal aid bill defeated in Senate, 15-15:
The concern, expressed openly by several Republican senators, is that they will now be painted as wanting to help Big Oil and Big Tobacco – both targets of class action suits in Oregon — instead of the average or low-income voter.
Dave is obviously a talented lobbyist. I wonder why he couldn’t get the legislature to give deals like this to UO, back when he was president? We didn’t properly incentivize him?
2/23/2014 update: RG Editors dismiss Frohnmayer and Gary arguments, note 48 other states now do this, and support HB 4143.
2/22/2014 update: Steve Duin has an excellent review of the conflict of interest issues swirling around Frohnmayer’s opposition to HB 4143, which would take unclaimed damages from class action settlements against his clients like Philip Morris, and use it to fund legal aid for the poor. Currently Oregon lets the corporations have it back, if they can’t find the people it’s owed to. In the Oregonian, here:
In the Register Guard, here.
Another of John Bonine’s many good works:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015 PUBLIC MEETING, FORD ALUMNI CENTER, GIUSTINA BALLROOM 8:00 – Board members meet with faculty. Faculty Trustee Susan Gary (Law) gives her talking points and etiquette tips here. I met with two board members and about 10 faculty. It was a very interesting meeting. Confidence inspiring really.…
Scott Coltrane really doesn’t want anyone to know. Still no response to this request to UO’s public records office: Date: February 27, 2015 at 4:59:49 PM PST Subject: Public Records request, Miller Nash invoices for Jane Doe lawsuit against UO and Dana Altman To: Lisa Thornton <[email protected]> Cc: Gregory Rikhoff <[email protected]>, doug…
That’s the NCAA’s unwritten rule. Seem’s like they’ve now extended it to women. InsideHigherEd has the data, here.
Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms has managed to arrange the room to keep the board and the UO community even farther apart than last time. Portable barriers are ready, in case the crowd gets restless: The live-blog of Wednesday’s committee meetings is here. News reports: Scott Greenstone in the Emerald on Kurt…
Good turnout, good decisions. Now we just have to get President Coltrane to implement them. Senate Meeting Agenda – March 4, 2015 – Watch Live, 2014-2015, Agendas 3:00 pm 1. Call to Order 3:00 pm 2. Approval of Minutes January 21, 2015 3:05 pm 3. State of the University 3.1 Remarks by Interim President Coltrane…
3/4/2014: It appears the Chair of the Finance and Facilities Committee has called in two Conflict Resolution Center “Neutral Observers” to monitor the part of the meeting on proposed tuition increases. Seems a bit excessive?
I’m adding a little live-blogging to the annotated agendas for the BOT’s spring meetings below. Committee meetings today, full BOT meetings Th and Friday. Don’t forget the Senate meets at 3PM today.
Usual disclaimer: My impression of what people said, meant to say, or should have said. Nothing is a quote unless in quotes. The stuff below is very unorganized, sorry.
You can google $115K Duck Advocate Tobin Clinger’s report on Monday’s Campus Conversation in “Around the 0”, but the report from UO student reporter Daniel Bieker in the Daily Emerald, here, is better: A member of the University of Oregon’s Senate Task Force Addressing Sexual Violence, [Carly] Smith, expressed her concern with…
United Academics General Membership Meeting – March 3, 2015 – 5:00-7:00pm – Gerlinger Lounge. An occasionally reliable source says there will be free beer.