11/24/2013: UO saved some big bucks yesterday. Yes, we’ll owe AD Rob Mullens another $50K if the Ducks play in any bowl game at all – contract here. But we’ll save maybe $250K on Helfrich – almost enough to cover the Scott Coltrane / Lorraine Davis increase in the Jock…
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11/24/2013: In an op-ed in the RG, here: To enhance student participation with the board, the selection of student members should be determined by their peers. At Portland State University and Oregon State University student leaders allowed their colleagues to apply for the position, an opportunity all Ducks should be…
11/23/2013: The official announcement is on the UAUO website. No Executive Council positions were contested, so the names below will constitute the Exec Council until the next election, in May 2015. Elections will be in May of odd years, see the UAUO constitution and by-laws for the mind-numbingly democratic details.…
Updated in real-time, as reports from the faculty parties roll in: 11/22/2013, 10:28 PM: University to axe economics, keep heavily subsidized athletics department.11/22/2013, 5:23 PM: Brad Shelton is forming a secretive “Central Budgeting Committee” to provide a facade of faculty input into UO’s spending priorities and the 3.0 release of UO’s…
11/21/2013: Our President’s reaction to the grim benchmarking report from Coltrane: Title: Sr. Director, Marketing Communications Salary Range: $100,000 – 120,000 Review Date: Search will remain open until filled. Search committee will begin reviewing applications December 20, 2013Start Date: As soon as possibleGeneral Responsibilities:The University of Oregon seeks applications for…
11/21/2013: After a competitive national search, with 4 finalists brought out for visits: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/whitten-named-uga-provost/. UO seems a bit behind the curve – rumor is that we may have some candidates out in January.
11/20/2013: Hannah Hoffman of the Statesman Journal has a report on the latest goings on with the legislature and the UO Board of Trustees appointments, here. For more perspective, read Mrs. Gerlinger’s prescient 1939 letter, here.11/15/2013: OUS Board celebrates “Remember the Hat” day They’re a little early this year, and boy…
11/19/2013: Wait, there *is* something to add: The OIT “Dawn of the Dead Week” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10CmiTjXMDU&sns=em That’s how you recruit good students – tell them they can hang out with other good students who are working hard and loving it. A better idea than taking your administrators on a bowl game…
11/19/2013: That would be SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi, asking for guidance from the CA State Chancellor’s office. InsideHigherEd.com reports from their Senate: “A series of conflicts over the last year has highlighted issues related to communication and transparency, has opened serious rifts in our shared sense of community, and has contributed…
11/18/2013: Last summer the Oregonian’s Betsy Hammond wrote a revealing story on the shenanigans of UO VP Robin Holmes and the use of student money to manipulate the student vote on the EMU expansion: University of Oregon leaders admit they made a tactical error when they hired a top political…
11/18/2013: An great story by Jennifer Hernandez in the Oregon Daily Emerald, about the new recruitment director for UO’s College Republicans.
11/18/2013: Insidehighered has a report on the brief tenure of Robert Sternberg as President at Wyoming. Hired by the board to make change, he did, stepping on a lot of toes in the process, to the point he could no longer run the place. This is apparently not uncommon for…
11/17/13 update: A commenter points out that I was misinformed. UO just played the U of Utah, not USU. Whatever. I’ve added the UU data.
11/15/13: That would be Robert Sternberg, at the University of Wyoming. Insidehighered.com has the report. He had support from the Caspar newspaper (thanks, commenter): Sternberg argued that he’s gotten a bum rap for firing too many people too fast. He pointed to the fact that he has asked for two resignations:…
11/12/13: I recently received the “demand for retraction” below, from Thomas Herrmann, legal counsel to the UO Foundation, presumably writing on instruction from the Foundation’s Chairman Jon Anderson, a former marathon runner with longtime Nike connections, and the Foundation’s 2013 Chair-elect and committed athletics booster Stephen Holwerda. A bio-piece on Mr Holwerda…