UO Matters
That would be President Sullivan at UVa. The Daily Progress has the story. The board tried to fire her last year. The governor reappointed Helen Dragas, her worst critic, to the board along with another businessman of the dull type we can expect to get for our board if the New Partnership…
Bean keeps his parking spot for 4 more months, but we should have a new interim by July 1. The obvious candidate is CAS Dean Scott Coltrane. Any other ideas? 3/2/13.
Nigel Jaquiss has the story in WW. 3/2/13.
Last summer the Senate IAC started trying to get data on the academic performance of student athletes, and for comparison, regular unathletic students. We were stonewalled. The Dolphin GC Randy Geller took the interesting position that federal law prevented faculty from seeing information on their students. After getting jerked around…
Several people have now sent me copies of this, thanks. It was written after a multitude of complaints about how VP for Research Kimberly Espy was handling her job, and concern over the consequences for UO’s research mission and our efforts to stay in the AAU. The authors are 3…
The 31st annual PIELC conference started today. Organized by law school students. List of speakers, and more, here. Complete brochure here. Just in case anyone got the wrong idea that the UO Law School was all about stuff like CnC. 2/28/2013.
Does anyone know what happened to Assistant General Counsel Paul Kaufmann? He used to be listed on the GC website, right above Randy’s General Counsel Emeritus (sic) Melinda Grier. (Geller’s apology letter to former hack job AG John Kroger and the Honorable Judge David Leith is here.) Now he’s gone.…
Two weeks ago Bean told Karen Sprague she wouldn’t be reappointed as VP for UGS – claiming the office would be reorganized. As a commenter wrote: She wasn’t fired – she was asked to step down as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies. Just one more example of Bean focusing on…
to spend their time enforcing the NCAA’s rules against giving the athletes “impermissible benefits”, given all the cash they bring in for the cartel, coaches and athletics directors. Other people have no shame, like UO’s “Faculty Athletics Representative” Jim O’Fallon: NCAA enforcer Jim O’Fallon NCAA player, kicked off team for…
Excellent report from Saul Hubbard in the RG on the prospects for Lariviere’s toned down New Partnership proposal in the Legislature: Some key state lawmakers remain lukewarm about a proposal that would create independent governing boards at the University of Oregon, Portland State University and Oregon State University, partially freeing…
I think those economists call this a natural experiment. Before 2010 UO had a contract with the EPD for armed officers to patrol campus and respond to campus trouble. I think it cost $500,000. Then VPFA Frances Dyke canceled the deal, and started dumping money on her pals in the…
2/27/13: The academic side is finally off the hook for the 50% we’d been covering out of tuition money. We’ve written a fair amount on UO General Counsel Randy Geller charging the academic side half the cost of “The Cleaner” Mike Glazier’s work on the Chip Kelly / Willie Lyles recruiting infraction.…
Makes sense. But more likely they make Gottfredson move into it to satisfy the gift intent, then use McMorran house for? Suggestions welcome. 2/26/2013.
Long story. The complaint to the bar’s ethics committee against Frohnmayer, Gary, and Pilliod was initiated by the wife of the Deschutes county DA, after they made an ethics complaint about him over some weird public records case involving the county. Frohnmayer collected quite a few billable hours from the…