That would be President Mitch Daniels at Purdue. Fascinating piece on his surprising first few months in Insidehighered, here. 4/4/2013.
UO Matters
4/4/2012: Plans here: Oh wait – this is for remodeling the locker room suite at Autzen. Never mind.
4/3/2013: The smart money says she’s billed us more than $200K so far. Now UO’s Public Records Office is charging $300 for people to see copies of the latest invoices from Sharon Rudnick and HLGR: We asked for the documents 12 days ago, and found out about the fee today.…
4/3/2013: Thought I’d repost this Randy classic – no particular reason. 1/29/2013: Oregon has a law on government transparency: SB 2500, passed in 2009. State agencies are required to post a bunch of stuff, including expenditures. The webpage is here. But UO has stopped reporting what they spend on legal services.…
The official announcement, follow up to the news that VP for University Relations Michael Redding is leaving: To: [email protected]: deans-dirs: Reorganization of UO central administration The following message is forwarded on behalf of President Michael Gottfredson – I am writing to let you know about a planned reorganization within central…
In red, from Dave Hubin’s fascinating UO accreditation report:
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 4/2/2013. (No bargaining Th the 4th). Synopsis: The union put its remaining economic proposals on the table. The administration said it needs to cost them out before responding. The union then asked how much UO was prepared to spend on the raises and…
From “Around the O”: University of Oregon student Edith Gomez will join Gov. John Kitzhaber, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and others Tuesday morning (April 2) when the governor signs into law the state’s so-called tuition equity bill. Gomez, a general science major at the UO, testified in favor of…
The Dalai Lama is coming to UO and will give a talk at the Matt Court basketball arena. Diane Dietz of the Register Guard reports that the tickets, which UO sold for $20 on a first-come first-served basis, with all proceeds to go to charity, are worth considerably more: But…
4/1/2013: From an interesting piece by Brent Walth in the Oregon Quarterly in Fall of 2010: The UO board would have the real power—control over tuition and spending, the power to hire and fire the president, and to OK any major initiative or donor-driven project.Lariviere says a local board could…
4/1/2013: From Sports Illustrated: The case, filed by former UCLA basketball star O’Bannon in 2009 and eventually expanded to include high-profile co-plaintiffs like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell, initially focused solely on the use of former athletes’ likeness in products such as EA Sports’ NCAA video games, for which the…
4/1/2013: President Gottfredson’s public records office is trying to hide the details of the negotiations over the UO Board of Trustees from the public and the press. Dave Hubin sat on this public records request from the Register Guard for more than two weeks before even giving out an estimate.…
4/1/2013: Note that this vote is only about their TTF union. From Carl Straumsheim in Insidehighered.com: Faculty members at Montana State University could next month vote to end a four-year experiment with unionization, stripping the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association of a hard-won chapter at a…
The Senate Interim Committee on Education and Workforce Development, consisting of Chair Senator Mark Hass, Vice-Chair Senator Tim Knopp, Senator Lee Beyer, Senator Jeff Kruse, and Senator Arnie Roblan has approved this amended version of SB270, the independent board legislation. They haven’t voted it out of committee yet, but my guess is that will happen pretty…