7/16/2013: Nigel Jaquiss and Alex Blum have the scoop in WWeek, based on public records requests, including Crew’s official calendar: Records obtained by WW under the state’s public records law suggest the governor and the Oregon Education Investment Board left Crew unsupervised in his high-profile job. He spent much of…
UO Matters
7/16/2013: From Teri Figueroa in the San Diego UT: A former Cal State San Marcos student who rigged a campus election by stealing nearly 750 student passwords to cast votes for himself and friends was sentenced Monday in federal court to a year in prison…. On Weaver’s computer, authorities found…
7/15/2013: Which is worse? Jim Bean’s $200K sabbatical and the $320K administrative sinecure President Gottfredson gave him to write the bylaws for the UO Trustees, or the latest General Petraeus scandal over a $200K teaching gig at CUNY, reported in the NY Times here?
Tu 7/16/2013, 9-4. 122 Knight Library. I’ll live blog it. The rumor that I will bring a pitcher of bloody mary’s is probably false. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR, and their lobbyist and public relations consultant Marla Rae. Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said…
7/14/2013 update: The $140M UC-Berkeley stadium upgrade that Bob Berdahl approved as Berkeley’s chancellor back in 2004 has now ballooned to $321M, and it’s looking like it will be a long term drain on the academic budget. The SF Chronicle has the story: Taking a grimmer view is Roger Noll,…
7/13/2013: From the wonderful fan based Fishduck.com blog: In 1926 two Portland, OR residents came to Eugene for their academic and athletic pursuits, Robert “Bobby” Robinson and Charles Williams. They were recruited by new Oregon head coach John J. McEwan, an All-American in 1914 at Army, the school where he…
7/12/2013: Brent Hunsberger on Kitzhaber’s version of de Gaulle’s dirigisme. Here’s hoping it turns out better than Kulongoski’s.
7/12/2013: Vague Notice of Meeting here: Following the Board meeting, the Board will convene in executive session pursuant to ORS 192.660(2)(i) to review and evaluate the employment-related performance of the chief executive officer of any public body, a public officer, employee, or staff member who does not request an open hearing for the…
7/11/2013: That’s according to the ethics law summary posted on Governor Kitzhaber’s website: Obvious conflict of interest, might lead the trustees to make decisions favoring athletics over academics. But then those ethics rules are supposed to hold for all public officials – including junketeers like Lorraine Davis, Robin Holmes, Jamie…
Wed 7/10/2013, 9-4. I’ll live blog it, also try Luebke’s blog. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR, and their lobbyist and public relations consultant Marla Rae. Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said or were thinking but were too polite to say.…
7/9/2013: Oregonian story here, his ruling on the limits of the privilege here.
7/9/2013: Those are some classy earmarks at the bottom. Is the $15m tuition deal good news or bad news for UO’s budget? Every 1% cut to in-state tuition costs us roughly $100 a head, or maybe $1.5 million a year. My guess is pretty close to a wash. Oregon University System The Subcommittee…
7/8/2013: My understanding is the UO Trustees are to be appointed and in place by this September. They will presumably then have semi-secret meetings for a year, until they take power in July 2014. Former Interim Provost Jim Bean is working on the by-laws now. I’m sure the lobbying is…
ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz passes on this statement: SB 270 is crucial because the climate of higher education in Oregon is so unstable and unpredictable, and we need that local autonomy and flexibility to continue to advance excellence in higher education in Oregon. More than any other reason, SB 270…
Fees for reporters, subsidies for propaganda
7/15/2013: We’ve written before about the $104K cost of “Around the O”. Here are two much worse examples of how UO is making work more difficult for real reporters, while spending public money on what amounts to propaganda. I suppose you could argue this is good for UO in the…