There was a last minute cancellation of this session. I went to the meeting room, and it looks like the admin team took off to find some more money: Wed 7/23/2013, 1PM – 4PM. 122 Knight Library. I’ll live blog it. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts are…
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7/23/2013. Her full letter to Kitzhaber’s education aide Ben Cannon, the man who hired the now disgraced Rudy Crew, is here. At the bargaining session yesterday Sharon Rudnick argued that having this lone, potentially non-voting faculty member on the board (and two more on the “achievement contracts” committee was “better than…
7/22/2013 update: Some fodder for the UO Trustees counter-proposal on raises to be presented Tuesday. IR should have new salary data from the AAU data exchange soon, but the sharing agreement says it can’t be posted on the web. 4/8/2013 update: The AAUP released its latest salary report, showing average faculty…
7/22/2013. New UO flack Rob Moseley’s work? “Around the O” distorts a story by Mark Johnson in the RG. Actually, Johnson doesn’t report that “NCAA documents show UO football values integrity”. He writes: Several pages that appeared to address responses to allegations that involved individuals were completely redacted before being released by the UO. …
Monday 722/2013, 11AM – 4PM. 122 Knight Library. I’ll live blog it. Your Guarantee of Truthiness: All UO Matters bargaining posts are fact-checked by Randy Geller, HLGR, and their lobbyist and public relations consultant Marla Rae. All posts since June 4 have passed Geller’s fact-check people with no corrections – excepting “Bar investigates Rudnick,…
7/21/2013: Ted Sickinger has an excellent investigative piece in the Oregonian on a successful scam to boost the energy tax credits for a wind farm from $10M to $30M. Big money, for comparison UO gets ~$55M a year from the state. Which is a better use of state funds? The…
7/21/2013: Edward Russo has the story in the Register Guard: The city had relied on Harrang Long since 1971 for virtually all of its legal advice, a sizeable task that produced big billings for the firm. Since 2000, the city has spent a total of $21.4 million — or an…
7/20/2013 update: Are UO’s new armed police more likely to save lives or cost lives – by accident, “suicide by cop” or over-response? One of DPS’s previous directors was hired by former UO VPFA Frances Dyke, after a bungled attempt to stop underaged drinking at football games at his previous…
7/20/2013: Brent Hunsberger writes an excellent personal finance column for the Oregonian. His take on the impact of the SB 822 PERS COLA cuts is here.7/3/2013: That was quick. From the law offices of BENNETT HARTMAN MORRIS & KAPLAN, full pdf here. For someone retiring with a $60K per year…
7/19/2013: Mark Johnson of the RG sports desk gets another dump of Kelly/Lyles docs from UO – 3 months after he made the public records request. UO NCAA Rep and former law professor Jim O’Fallon used to argue that these sorts of records were top secret, despite the DOJ ruling below,…
7/19/2013: And more from Lariviere, on the need for additional faculty raises – written *after* he implemented the equity raises that helped get him fired: Frankly, the single most important action the UO could take to ensure its long-term success is to finish the faculty salary equity project during FY12…
7/19/2013: Clearly state your assumptions and provide appropriate figures and explanations: 1) From the NYT today: Should the bankrupt city of Detroit sell its $2 billion art collection to help pay its $18 billion in debt? 2) From the NYT yesterday: A Romanian mother burned ~$250 million worth of stolen impressionist…
7/19/2013: UO is under-administrated? Our academic accreditors, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, require that 2.A.11 The institution employs a sufficient number of qualified administrators who provide effective leadership and management for the institution’s major support and operational functions and work collaboratively across institutional functions and units to foster fulfillment of the…
7/18/2013: No, of course this is not from Journalism Dean Tim Gleason at UO, he’s busy thinking up reasons to hide public records from UO’s student journalists. It’s from the storied University of Missouri School of Journalism. I’d suggest you donate, but 2 days into it they’re already well over their…
7/18/2013: I asked a few of the legislators who voted against SB 270 if they would send a statement explaining the reasons for their vote, to post on UO Matters. Here are the replies I received. Comments welcome: Senator Floyd Prozanski (Eugene): As much as I support individual governing boards,…