1930: Ed’s Coed – Pledge Rag Scene from beta collide. Trumpet by Brian McWhorter. 2013: Video from the ODE, by Allysa Veigel
UO Matters
10/23/13: Last December President Gottfredson gave then Interim Provost Bean the job of starting a blog, to to get faculty input into rewriting UO’s Academic Plan. It was a bad idea. Bean had botched the previous plan, which ended up in the dustbin of Johnson Hall, and his “5 big…
10/22/13: For more on ESPN and it’s influence on big-time college football, here’s a good NYT story. The PAC-12 deal with ESPN is worth $3 billion, through 2024. How much of that goes to UO’s academic side? Maybe a negative 6 million or so a year. Still no action on…
10/22/13: Short version: If you are a full professor in CAS and had a successful 6th year review between 2006 and 2013, your subsequent raise was considerably less than required by OUS – say $3,000 on average. Multiply that by the number of years since your review and we’re talking…
10/21/2013: President Gottfredson is at the fall AAU meeting now: Current Schedule SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 AAU meetings, Washington, D.C. 2 years ago the AAU kicked out Nebraska, and Syracuse voluntarily left. See below. In March, UO told our…
The University of Oregon administration has been bargaining a union contract with the UO faculty’s AAUP/AFT affiliate local since November. I regularly blog about the bargaining sessions. In February the University of Oregon’s administrative bargaining team wrote an unsigned “Open Letter” to the UO community, saying: “We write this letter…
What Are We Not Doing When We’re Online Scott Wallsten NBER Working Paper No. 19549Issued in October 2013NBER Program(s): PR The Internet has radically transformed the way we live our lives. The net changes in consumer surplus and economic activity, however, are difficult to measure because some online activities, such as…
10/20/13: A good piece on the Duck’s alcohol promoting billboards. And an Open letter to the class of 2017 passes on some hard-won advice to our incoming freshman. I’ll add it to my syllabus for next fall. Then there’s an interesting cost-benefit analysis of a fake ID. You might also enjoy this piece on the…
10/20/13: Thanks to a curious janitor for the file. The office cleaning schedule for UO’s top administrators? The 8×10 faculty offices? Once a week: Whatever, it’s mostly just empty cups from Cafe Roma. But the day care center? Just on Wednesdays: Now that’s a bit scary.
10/19/13: “They think I have damaged the image of the school of economics and … University.” Oh wait, that’s in China. Whew. The NY Times has the story.
Update: WSU President Elson Floyd on leadership and his voluntary pay cut: Leadership: I believe very strongly in leadership by example-in working very hard at what we do-and I work hard to inculcate those values at our institution every day. When we faced the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, all…
10/18/13. For administrators like Robin Holmes, and coaches. And of course we’ve got millions for deadwood administrators. Another million for Sharon Rudnick and her consultants. $2.4M for the Portland White Stage lease. $350K a year to rent the Presidential Skybox at Autzen from Rob Mullens. $500K from academics to pay…
10/17/2013: Victor Flores has the story in the ODE. $1500 for a party? I’m guessing the food and drink bill for the average meeting of Jim O’Fallon’s NCAA Committee on Infractions is quite a bit more than $1500 – money they get from not paying their athletes.
10/16/2013: News here. Not clear if that will get him another bowl game junket. Our President’s Org Chart is getting crowded.7/3/2013: Lorraine Davis is Coltrane’s special assistant? Geller still in the game, Bean is gone, his gig writing the UO Board’s bylaws doesn’t merit a box:
10/16/13 Update: President delivers fact filled speech to Senate, announces strategic plan, end to athletic subsidies! Pac-12 media contract revenues from ESPN/FOX, our Pac-12 network partners, the new Rose Bowl agreement and the new College Football Championship agreement will substantially increase funding for athletics. In several years, there will be…