I try to keep this blog focused on sleazy administrators, football scams, and transparency. But every now and then something a bit more consequential comes up. From the comments on a UO Gabon post: Citoyen Libre Gabon Sunday, 02 December, 2012 University of Oregon just accepted a gift of $20M from…
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at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville: After Tennessee fired its coach last week, the university’s chancellor said the athletic department would forgo $18 million in contributions it was to make to the university over the next three years for academic scholarships and fellowship programs.Instead, some of the money will…
12/1/2012: That’s the rumor from the coaches’ hot tub. If true, Kelly’s contract requires him to pay UO $2.5 million. VPFA Jamie Moffitt will make sure this goes directly to the academic side, to cover the AD’s 3 years of overhead underpayments, and reimburse our students for half this year’s Jock…
12/1/2012: From Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Gov. John Kitzhaber proposes to create a large state agency, the Department of Post-Secondary Education, to control state funding for the state’s seven public universities, 17 community colleges, need-based college scholarships and Oregon Health & Science University. The surprise announcement, never floated publicly…
11/30/2012: I was at this bargaining meeting. Bean was not. At the insistence of the union, the bargaining meetings will be open and live-blogging will be allowed. In the spirit of cooperation and professional collaboration, that’s all I have to say just now. The comments are open, of course. Office…
The MSU decertification group’s post is here. Their proposal is to replace the new union (and its dues) with a strong faculty senate. UO’s faculty senate was gutted by Frohnmayer, with Lariviere, Pernsteiner and Berdahl finishing it off as an effective institution. Rob Kyr has tried to rebuild it, but at…
I come across a lot of interesting things writing this blog. It’s hard to decide what is legitimately in the public interest. I’m no ethnomusicologist, but these recent video clips are a must. 11/29/2012.
Congratulations to the Ad Hoc Beangram Team for disemboweling yet another message from Interim Provost Bean. I’m glad to see I’m not the only UO prof who enjoys our Interim Provost’s unique mix of pretension, condescension, dissimulation, and ignorant disrespect for data and analysis.Updates: See bottom, from data located by a…
Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Oregon has the fourth-worst high school graduation rate in the nation, according to the federal government’s most accurate state-by-state report on the topic. Just 68 percent of Oregon high school students in the class of 2011 earned a diploma in four years, according to data…
For the curious, here. Same salary and benefits. Keeps 2nd house allowance, expense allowance, extra expense allowance, maid service, travel, etc. Must continue to pretend he lives at Treetops. Runs through July 2014. 11/27/2012.
11/27/2012: That’s the word from a conversation today between Dave Hubin and a UO Matters correspondent. Apparently the official JH position is going to be that Gottfredson’s decision to implement reviews has nothing to do with the two motions that passed the UO Senate unanimously on Nov 7. Whatever dude, just…
Perhaps he’s busy sending out resumes. At the last Senate meeting President Gottfredson made a big deal about announcing that Bean was going to redo UO’s academic plan, after setting up a blog for faculty input. Look, blogging ain’t exactly rocket science, but it’s Dead Week and our chief academic…
11/26/2012: Expect a rash of these stories from their public affairs office over the next few months. Now that Kitzhaber’s put a moratorium on the death penalty, I’m all for locking up bike thieves. The easy fix would be to change the rule that prevents the UO cops from transporting perps to the…
11/26/2012: Colton Totland has a fascinating interview with one of UO’s first students from Gabon, here. Good background material too. Dennis Galvan and the UO administration may be afraid to tell the truth, but our students are not.
11/26/2012 update: Geller is still redacting the contracts and invoices on legal advice about the union – it’s been more than a month now since I asked for them. But Dave Hubin did send me a copy of the emails between him and Geller on the subject of UO’s fee-waiver…