Call me old-fashioned. I thought it was a trifle déclassé for our athletic department to sell Duck women’s soccer shorts on the internet – complete with a certificate of authenticity. But it must have helped cover Kelly’s bonuses. Now they’re selling tickets to the cheerleader tryouts for $5: I guess this is safe for…
UO Matters
4/30/2013: Recently in the ODE, Sami Edge on Sharon Rudnick’s exuberant legal billings: According to a billing statement revealed last Thursday on the UO Matters blog, the university has paid more than $300,000 to the Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C. law firm in legal fees over the last year. Sharon…
Sharon Rudnick, when delivering the administration’s counter-offer last week: “You can argue whatever you want. This is what it is. This is our best offer. You can make all the accusations you want.” The union’s slightly more temperate response: Our proposal would redirect 2% of the university’s total operating budget by…
4/29/2013: That’s my read of this AP story: … The school had previously insisted it would continue to pursue acrobatics and tumbling despite the ruling. But on Friday, it backed away from that position. “The court has ruled that acrobatics and tumbling is not in their view an approved NCAA…
4/28/2013: Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian reports on the tradeoff: Oregon operates the second-most-expensive public preschools in the nation, at a cost of more than $8,500 per child for a half-day, Head Start-like program, according to a study released Sunday night. Partly because of the high costs, the state has to…
From the NYT: … consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with income of $15,000. These incomes are at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the income distribution nationally, meaning that 10 percent of children today grow up in families with…
4/26/2013: That would be the TTF at Montana State, story here. Their NTTF union stays, and there is a new GTF union as well. The TTF decertification drive was led by grant funded faculty, who put up $10K or so of their own money for lawyers. Those leaders would likely would…
I did not know that. The RG reports. 4/26/2013.
4/25/2013: Word down at the faculty club Jai Alai court is that Gottfredson is going to appoint an interim provost soon, without jumping through any of the Senate hoops. Just how Bean got the job. Presumably Doug Blandy is the man – because UO has no standards: 4/23/2013: Sami Edge has the…
To: University Community From: Robert Kyr, senate president Re: SENATE ELECTIONS & COMMITTEE SERVICE—University Senate, Elected Committees, and Appointed Committees DEADLINE for self-nomination: Wednesday, May 3, 2013 We have extended the deadline for the completion of the UO Senate Committee Service Preference Form to this coming Wednesday, May 3, 2013.…
4/25/2013 Prologue: Note to President Gottfredson: If you have any concern for what the faculty think of you, don’t let Sharon Rudnick speak for you again. The union presented its raise proposal 5 weeks ago. The administration has been stalling on a response ever since. Tuesday, about 30 faculty showed up to hear what…
4/24/2013. Harry Esteve has the bloody details in the Oregonian.
4/24/2013. In the Oregonian. And where did UO’s money go? The ODE has a hint, here. $3 million a year in new costs, recurring. We pay Jamie Moffitt $290K a year, recurring, to control this sort of thing. Instead she’s lecturing the faculty about how much science start-ups cost.
4/24/2013: Secret meeting update: SI is reporting UO held a meeting with the NCAA infractions committee last week to negotiate penalties. The charge of the UO Senate’s IAC says the IAC shall be consulted by the 3. The faculty athletics representative about all ongoing investigations and major violations. And the Frohnmayer…
Update: The union is reporting that Gottfredson’s team has committed to present their counter on raises at 8AM Thursday. No explanation for the HLGR donut delivery problems, but the UO Matters catering division will be ready with coffee and backup voodoo. 4/23/2013: At 9:30 VPFA Jamie Moffitt will deliver President Gottfredson’s…