That was in 2010, from their report to the Senate on the proposal to give UO an independent board: http://senate.uoregon.edu/files/SBCNewPartRep20101109.pdf 3) Transparency and accountability. If the UO achieves a new degree of autonomy from the OUS and the Oregon Legislature, we are concerned that the UO be held to high…
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Job ad here. No word on whether or not Gottfredson and Coltrane will give the retiring Deb Carver, currently paid $191K, a Tim Gleasonesque or Jim Beanesque golden parachute deal.
It looks like the OUS Board is finally going to decide what to do with Tree Tops. By condemn they mean seize it under eminent domain, and presumably pay the heirs the market value, which according to Zillow is $1.4M. The full docket for the board’s 1/10/2013 meeting, which includes…
That was at UNC. What about UO? The NYT has the UNC story: One of dozens of courses in the department that officials say were taught incompletely or not at all, AFAM 280 is the focus of a criminal indictment against Mr. Nyang’oro that was issued last month. Eighteen of…
"Around the O" spam costs ~$107,000. Gottfredson’s calendar costs $103. 12/31/2013: UO Matters more popular than Around the O for 2013 Here’s a little hint for former UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, now getting $218,524 a year to advise UO on “academic messaging”. While UO’s official “Around the O” blog…
The RG names names. The NYT provides background. In other economic news, the Oregon DOJ has decided to crack down on vital supplies for Oregon’s thriving blogging and computer programming startups.
Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal has posted the contracts between big-time college sports departments and their apparel suppliers. The Ducks get $600K cash (all of which seems to go to the coaches), $2.2M for apparel and team equipment (works out to $5000 per player), and a $185K “discretionary…
The Boston Globe reports on the wake, here. That would be Northeastern University, the 2010 story also reports on other universities that have done the same.
Bennett Hall has an excellent story in the Corvallis Gazette Times: Oregon State University student media adviser Kate Willson thought she was just doing her job when she filed a public records request with the university. Now she’s worried it could get her fired. OSU’s chief spokesman says Willson’s job…
In the Atlantic magazine, here. Con rispetto, Don Corleone also deserves a cite:
This is driven by Oregon’s reliance on income taxes rather than sales taxes and by the Oregon EITC. (We have the unlikely combination of Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon to thank for the federal EITC, which gives low income families a tax credit for income they earn through work. Oregon’s…
Update: Make that 2: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=4538 President Gottfredson blew $1M on Sharon Rudnick and her helpers. After first putting Jim Bean in charge of bargaining, he’s now paying the feckless Tim Gleason $218K a year to work on contract implementation and strategic communications about the CBA. He’s paying $122,004 to Sam…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbelzer/2013/12/26/why-the-oregon-ducks-teach-us-that-luck-isnt-everything/ And don’t miss their op-ed from Monday, calling to an end to federal tax subsidies for big-time college sports and for the salaries like the one UO pays Mr. Mullens: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshfreedman/2013/12/23/subsidized-saturdays-the-tax-free-world-of-college-football/ In the coming weeks, the nation’s top college football teams will face off in the Bowl Championship Series,…