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http://policies.uoregon.edu/node/215 2/19/2013.
2/18/2013: Updated at bottom with Dean Michael Moffitt’s pay.2/17/13: This is back of the envelope for the Football and Conflict course, the original post with exam is here. Corrections welcome. I’m no economist, and many readers know more about this than I do. (Edited once already, thanks for corrections). Under Brad…
2/18/2013: Back in 2008 Frohnmayer and Kilkenny were flashing around a consultant’s report predicting that Matt Court Arena revenue would be between $10M and $16M a year. But they were hiding a more substantial report with drastically lower projections: $6M to $8.6. Frohnmayer and Melinda Grier sat on my public…
2/17/2013: Time to get real. Gottfredson’s not going to fire Bean. He’s not even going to fire Geller. It’s up to us faculty. Sure, we could fight with conventional weapons, like Tublitz’s senate resolution. But that would take years. No, this requires a really stupid and futile gesture. And So…
I just came across this link to a blog post about the scandal at Penn State, written last year by the CnC professor that I have just put under so much scrutiny. An excerpt: To this day, universities justify college football on the grounds that it builds character, but all the…
The UO Senate TC charge and membership is here. The committee met this morning. Reporters from the Register Guard, Daily Emerald, and the Commentator were present and voiced their opinion that the public records process at UO was not functioning well, that the fees were discouraging legitimate public inquiry, and…
Rob Moseley has the story in the RG. Part of the cash comes from the $467K a year the academic side pays the jocks for Mac Court. Why is Michael Gottfredson letting that corrupt Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal continue?
Colleagues: The Oregon Budget Model determines the college-level budgets of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Oregon. We’ve been running this budget model several years now, and it is appropriate to consider how the various aggregate measurements attached to the model have changed. This week, I am presenting…
Official UO “Around the O” blogger Joe Mosley was kind enough to share his Google Analytics from the first 3 weeks in January with me. Not looking good for UO Matters, though our readers have got AtO beat 9,269 to zero on comments. Around the O: UO Matters:
Most NYT stories about Republicans read like the editor sent the reporters off on a dangerous expedition as punishment for some newsroom etiquette faux-pas. But Robert Draper seems to have had fun with his interview with two UO Commentator alumni, Bret Jacobson and Ian Spencer (Econ 2006), who now run…
2/14/2013 update: Melody Rose appointed Interim Chancellor. Betsy Hammond has the story. No word yet on whether or not her contract will Give her $23,200 for “professional expenses” and then let her pocket it as extra pay. Require her to pretend she lives at Treetops, and pay for her maid…
If there’s one thing the jocks understand it’s how to take the rules and run with them. Today’s excellent story in Inside Higher Ed, by Gerald Gurney and Richard M. Southall, dissects the 2003 NCAA academic reforms – pushed by former UO Pres Myles Brand – and shows how they have…
OC report on Senate Transparency Meeting
2/17/13: Nick Ekblad of the Oregon Commentator on the recent Senate Transparency Committee meeting: Being asked questions (about transparency, no less) is stressful and intimidating– apparently something that wasn’t in the Public Records Officer job description.