6/27/2013: The legislative website has the amendments, here. Saul Hubbard of the RG explains the deal: Addressing a key sticking point, the bill now requires one student seat, one faculty seat and one classified-employee staff seat on each 11- to 15-member university board. The student seat would have voting rights, while…
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6/26/2013 update. The public NCAA report is here. Hilariously pompous. Public Censure and Reprimand. Presumably much more will be released eventually, thanks to this public records opinion from Dave Frohnmayer’s DOJ. The NYT has this quote from Kelly: Kelly, in a statement issued through the Eagles, apologized to the university and its fans.…
6/26/2013: From an op-ed in the Oregonian by libertarian Steve Buckstein of the Cascade Policy Institute: “If it were possible to opt out of membership in a labor union without losing your job or any other penalty, would you do it?” Nationally, 33.4 percent of respondents answered yes.In Oregon, 31.2…
6/26/2013: Starts at 3pm, scant details here, agenda here (3rd and 4th items).
6/25/2013, 9-4. Sorry, no live-blog on this one but I’ll post a synopsis later. Meanwhile 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, (and former Frohnmayer aide) Marla Rae. Disclaimer: My opinion of what people said or were…
6/25/2013: UO’s student-journalists at the Daily Emerald have started a non-profit to raise money to pay the fees UO charges them to see public records about UO. Their explanation is here and the donate button is here. Note that all donations are public. Dave Hubin’s response, in the form of a letter…
6/25/2013: Sam Stites has the story in the RG: Earlier this month, the UO’s office of marketing and brand management sent out a request for proposals for anyone seeking to manufacture Ducks apparel, requiring a guarantee starting July 1 of a least $500,000 a year in royalties to be paid…
6/23/2013: That would be the AFT, suing the president of the Marshall University in West Virginia. More here. UO uses similar strategies to stall and prevent release of records, but usually goes for smaller estimates. Unless you’re Nathan Tublitz, and you ask for the records showing how JH administrators justified…
6/24/2013: My original post on my ethics complaint regarding Rudnick, Gary, and Geller here. Some excerpts from the brief submitted by the Oregon DOJ to the Court of Appeals last Monday, arguing for a substantial reduction in HLGR’s $562K legal fees. Big pdf here.
6/24/2013: Or maybe the preferred nomenclature should be “BMW administrative costs”. Thanks to a reader for the link. More here, this data is from IPEDS and does not count the last year or two of new UO administrative excesses. The last column gives “Institutional support” per student FTE. That is the IPEDS category…
6/24/2013: UO is trying to charge UO’s student journalists $240 for a copy of his official calendar, claiming that student names are protected under FERPA as “student records” and they have to pay for Lisa Thornton to go through it and redact them. I’m guessing it’s about 10 names. But…
6/24/2013: Work in progress, suggestions and corrections welcome. UO won’t release the long-term financial projections on which Jamie Moffitt is basing her claims that they can’t afford the union salary proposals, this is my stab at figuring out the situation. Summary: Tuition and fees up $32M for this next year: 2010…
6/23/2013: The faculty union has released the dates that the admin is willing to meet over the summer to get this contract wrapped up. I’m going to miss a few sessions, but I’ll post summaries of all. And of course you can always check out Barbara Altman’s site for the…
6/24/2013: Diane Dietz of the RG had a good story on the Eugene student rental market last year, suggesting overbuilding and falling rents for students. (I’d linked to a plagiarized version of this story earlier. Sorry!) 6/23/2013: It’s an open question as to how necessary they were, but the city of Eugene…
6/22/2013: A small step for the faculty. Very small. Why does the UO Senate Coordinator report to Dave Hubin? Job ad here: Title: Executive Coordinator for the Statutory Faculty and University Senate Department: President’s Office Reports to: Sr. Assistant to the President and the Senate President Salary Range: $38,000 to…