Hannah Hoffman of the SJ has a good explanation of how future reductions in payouts from a COLA cap will save the state $400 million a year immediately. From what I can tell this will also mean a large immediate decrease in what the state pays for people in the…
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The lottery subsidies to the athletics department are for 2009-2011, a holdover from some long-forgotten failed scheme to allow lottery gambling on college football games. Kitzhaber’s budget takes the money away from OUS and gives it to educational purposes: More from the remarkably transparent, and appropriately garish Oregon Lottery site, here:…
Early days on this, but it certainly seems to threaten the current business model for big-time college sports, where all the profits go to the coach and athletic director – and where university administrators can charge off hundreds of thousands of dollars in bowl game junket expenses, while it’s an…
Let’s face it, throwing a party is risky. Realizations run the gamut from having to call in your colleagues to dilute a deadly seminar speaker, to throwing a runaway blast where everyone has so much fun they won’t leave and crank the music til 2 AM. So guess which one…
Rob Mullens is not having a good year. First Chip Kelly left him. Then Jamie Moffitt raised his overhead $500K, thanks to our persistent questions. Then Kitzhaber announced he would shift the $900K subsidy the lottery gives him for athletic scholarships to the academic side. And now student government wants…
1/28/2013: When Gottfredson came to UO in August, Diane Dietz of the RG got this promise: In the future, Gottfredson said, his presidential press conferences will be more substantive — and not like White House press briefings, where reporters are reduced to hollering their urgent questions at the president. That’s…
1/28/2013: Pernsteiner’s buy out deal is here, courtesy of OUS Board Secretary Charles Triplett – no fee this time, though it’s going to cost the students plenty: Word from the recently dedicated Lariviere Smoking Lounge down at the UO faculty club is that the state Audits Division may be looking…
Jeff Mapes has an excellent story in the Oregonian. 1/26/2013.
Aaron Swartz committed suicide because of the US DOJ’s persecution of him over the JSTOR journal articles. Carl Malamud is the man who persuaded the Oregon Legislature to stop trying to claim copyright to Oregon Law, and who helped me get the Oregon AG’s Public Records Manual online, despite legal…
1/26/2013: Pernsteiner’s attorney, Bill Gary of Harrang, Rudnick, Frohnmayer et al., says Pernsteiner intends to return to live in Eugene: … … Full letter and more recent info here, more on his various scams below. 1/26/2013: Actually, the board gave *him* notice – read the press release. Brad Schmidt of the…
or maybe he’s correcting his December Senate speech. Or his January one? Or maybe his old claim that UO spends 38% of what our peers do on administration. Anyone know? Anyone trust his math? Believe his grammar? Amazed at his confusion between levels and changes? 1-25-13 Provost’s Message Colleagues: Several…
He’s got some high-powered incentives to encourage his “student-athletes” to take gut courses with inflated grades. Too bad AD Rob Mullens didn’t consult with UO’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee about the likely academic consequences – this is now locked in for many years. Full contract here. 1/24/2013.
Published yesterday, 1/23/2013, here: Higher education officials should be less concerned with secrecy and more concerned with making certain the public has a full understanding of the dynamics that have contributed to the financial woes of Oregon’s universities and how hard it will be for them to meet the challenges that…
for the Glazier investigation. And it still ain’t over. Adam Jude has the latest in the Oregonian. Here’s a (dated) billing statement – approved by Jamie Moffitt, showing the split. Has Gottfredson put a stop to this? Good question, I’ve put in a public records request. Meanwhile, more here from the last go-round…