UO Matters
I haven’t really been following the latest from Duck sports, so these may be old cases. Nothing on the UO covid page here, of course. Lane County Health link here.
Of course they lower the listed tuition price which is paid by higher income students, but it turns out they reduce the amount of needs-based support that universities provide low-income students by twice as much. I wonder how strong the inverse effect is – do increases in listed tuition lead…
Report from Pete Danko in the Portland Business Journal. Gated, but here’s the gist. This is the *monthly* pot tax revenue: The Oregon State Economist has more here: It will take legislative action to move this windfall to the general fund. The session opens January 19th.
From UO’s business opportunities website here: 1.1. Purpose of this AP. The University of Oregon’s Office of the Provost(University), is issuing this Alternative Procurement (AP) to procure strategic planning consultation services in support of the Provost’s Integrative Sport and Wellness Initiative as more specifically described in this solicitation. The University…
12/3/ update: OSU’s version is here, UO’s almost identical take is below: From: Hans Bernard <[email protected]>Date: December 3, 2020 at 08:55:20 PSTTo: Hans Bernard <[email protected]>Subject:Governor’s Recommended Budget Campus colleagues, On Tuesday, Governor Kate Brown released her proposed budget for the 2021- 23 biennium. The Governor recommends balancing the $25.6 Billion general and lottery fund budget…
The meeting packets for these 2 days include an unprecedented level of detail on UO finances. I’ll be adding some snippets from them to the relevant selections below as the meetings progress, but in the meantime you can read the material for Dec 3 here and Dec 4 here. From…
The Oregonian has the story on Altman’s promotion yesterday of Tony Stubblefield here. The 2017 CBS Sports report on Stubblefield’s role recruiting Dominic Artis, Damyean Dotson and Brandon Austin is below the break. (Apparently Altman is crying because he lost a game, not over the alleged sexual assaults.)
To paraphrase the anonymous reader who forwarded this invite from our bloated and ineffective Division of Equity and Inclusion, “What the Fuck?” From: Division of Equity and Inclusion <[email protected]>Date: December 2, 2020Subject:Ducks vs. Cal Bears: Halftime Locker Zoom with DEIReply-To:[email protected]
I’ll try and live blog it some. The zoom link is here – given past zoom-bombing you might want to sign in a little before 3.https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/91780103621 3:00 P.M. Call to Order Land Acknowledgment; Michelle Wood Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elliot Berkman, Senate VP Spike Gildea Enrollment; TBD Big-time sports not…
The complete job ad for a replacement for Missy Matella, whose last day was Nov 30, was posted the same day here. The remarkably transparent list of required Professional Competencies includes: • Ability to work across partisan and ideological lines to build consensus for university and faculty issues.• Ability to…
11/30/2020 update: Still no agenda posted. I don’t know. $205K UO Board Secretary Angela Wilhelms is late again posting the agenda for the meeting, and now she wants me to pay $348.52 for the emails she sends the trustees: From: [email protected]: University of Oregon Office of Public Records 2021-PRR-133Date: November 17, 2020 at…
While it’s hard pretty hard to find a UO professor who’s a registered Republican (back in 2006 I could only find 25, out of 506 matches to the Lane County voter file) there’s more religious diversity than you might expect, along with some interesting differences by field. From a 2006…
There’s no mystery to why a coach like Dana Altman wants to make sure “his” players are not doing the wrong thing at the wrong time and place. Any restrictions on their un-paid athletes are acceptable to the coaches, so long as they keep getting their millions in pay and…
Dear University of Oregon colleagues, As I think about Thanksgiving this year, I am flooded with conflicting emotions. Like many of you, my plans to visit family and friends have been canceled, one more unfortunate change in a difficult year. Since many, if not most, of our students will leave…