3/22/2013 updates at bottom. UO Board Oregon Senate hearings, at 1PM 3/21/2013. Background here, live feed here. The original architect of the independent board idea was Michael Redding, who is leaving UO any week now for UIC. So the ball is now in Mike Gottfredson’s court, as those sports boosters…
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Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Thursday 3/21/2013. Postscript: Prologue: (Comparator gaps by dept here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget here.) You might have thought Michael Gottfredson would have asked Kitzhaber for authority to deal with UO’s faculty pay problem, before he agreed to take the UO president’s…
Updated with latest (last?) Beangram: March 20, 2013 TO: Officers of instruction, research and administrationFROM: Provost Jim BeanSUBJECT: Multi-year salary adjustment program update I am writing to provide an update regarding the multi-year salary adjustment program announced in my email of March 4, 2013. The University is moving forward…
3/20/2013 update. Seems like a good time to repost this classic on raises for UO administrators and the efforts JH has made to keep the process secret. You can read the WSJ on UO’s administrative bloat and listen to Bean and Frohnmayer bloviate about UO’s lean administration here.4/3/2012: More than…
Venue: Room 122 Knight Library, 8AM, Tuesday 3/19/13. Postscript: (Raises to get to comparators here, what to cut here, Moffitt’s secret budget slides here.) The union’s bargaining update, with a description of their salary plan, is here: Yesterday, the United Academics Bargaining Team proposed a carefully considered, comprehensive and forward-looking…
Prozanski’s on it, Senate Bill 602. Oh wait, it’s about airplanes, never mind. 3/19/2013.
3/18/2013: Help VPFA Jamie Moffitt find the money to get UO’s faculty salaries to the AAU peers, and provide similar raises for NTTFs. A rough guess is she needs $20 million recurring, or about 2.5% of UO’s total projected $813 million in revenue for 2012-13. To play, log in to…
3/19/2013 update: Law School had been planning on banking 45% of CnC revenue as profit Law Professor Q: The particular question that interests me the most concerns the division of revenue from CNC courses. How much of this revenue goes to CNC/CRES/ADR, and how much goes to the law school’s…
Real friends steal a helicopter and hover over the prison yard while you climb up a rope to escape, then drop you off at a ski area. 3/17/2013.
3/17/2013. VPAA Doug Blandy announces UO’s faculty excellence awards: Subject: deans-dirs: Announcing Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards 2013-14Date: March 15, 2013 4:06:02 PM PDTTo: “Deans-Dirs List ([email protected])” After successfully rebuilding the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards program last year, we are pleased to announce that the nomination period for…
3/16/2013: Back in December Jamie Moffitt gave a presentation on UO budget projections to a closed OUS board meeting. I tried to attend as a journalist, they kicked me out. The RG made a public records request for the numbers UO presented, as did I. Here’s what we got back,…
As introduced in Senate: Proposed revisions to exclude faculty: What ever happened to this? At the Statutory Faculty meeting on November 30, 2011, we passed SFA 11/12-02: Motion for the Establishment of a UO Board of Trustees, which reads: PROCESS FOR FORMING A UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOARD The UO faculty…
3/16/2013. What exactly are “the duties of the University President for the 2012 Rose Bowl”? And why did our students have to pay Lorraine Davis to go to Pasadena and perform them? Who knows. The real question is how much money VPFA Jamie Moffitt will let Johnson Hall spend on these…
of NYU. 3/15/13. The NYT reports: … But during the same period tuition rose and faculty salaries stagnated. His opponents said his emphasis on growth, along with the salaries and perks for a few top employees, were more appropriate to a corporation than a nonprofit institution. The response from the…
Oregon Commentator hears Bean on tuition increases
3/16/2013: What is Jim Bean going to do to justify his last 16 months of feeding at the Johnson Hall sugar tit, at $27K a month? It seems to involve badly organized efforts to try and lobby students to support tuition increases. Nick Ekblad of the OC has the scoop:…