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UO Prof Jennifer Freyd’s experiment with “Mandatory Supporting” ended by Dept of Ed bureaucrats*

Under the UO policy students could discuss incidents of sexual harassment confidentially with faculty, without fear that the faculty would be required to report their names and details against the students’ wishes. Now faculty must report these conversations or face discipline. I spent a good year or two of my…

UO’s new Chief PR Flack Carol Keese to replace “Around the 0”

Around the O is the official UO blog created in 2013 by Journalism Dean Tim Gleason on orders from Interim President Bob Berdahl in an attempt to replace UO Matters as the most popular source of news about UO. To boost readership they spammed everyone every few days, and when that didn’t work they tried gimmicks like free iPads to readers. Now Carol Reese, UO’s latest Chief PR Flack Vice President for Communications & Chief Marketing Officer, has decided that Around the O needs a redo, presumably to justify a bigger budget. Link to survey below.

My own thought is that it’s more than a little unseemly  for a university that is ostensibly devoted to the search for truth to spend tuition money hiring PR flacks to make the administrators look good – but I didn’t see a likert scale for that among the questions.

Dear Reader,
University Communications at the University of Oregon would like your opinion and a few minutes of your time to help improve the effectiveness of campus news and storytelling.
The final edition of the Around the O newsletter went out July 17. Current and recent Oregon news stories are available on the Oregon news page.
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PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL info from UO Foundation reveals huge raises for CEO Paul Weinhold, CFO Kelly Bosch

Thanks to an anonymous UOF Board member for suggesting I post this info.

From 2022 to 2023, UO Foundation CEO Paul (Ronald) Weinhold’s pay increased 23%, to $642,673. CFO Kelly Bosch’s pay increased $54%, to $317,846.

From 2013 to 2023, Weinhold’s pay increased by 101%. The pay for the average UO faculty member increased from $89,900 to $122,900, or 35%.

This money comes from an annual tax that the Foundation charges on the value of endowment gifts.

Weinhold also has a second job as Chairman of the Board at Summit Bank, where he recently appointed UO’s VP for Finance Jamie Moffitt as a board member. Summit is privately held, so no info on how much they make from these second jobs.

This of course is not “PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL” information, despite the Foundation’s scary words below. It comes from the IRS 990 forms that the Foundation is required to provide to anyone who asks, and which Propublico eventually posts here. Many not-for-profits post these on their websites, but not Weinhold and Bosch – who also run out the allowable extensions, so that the numbers for the fiscal year that ended June 30 will not be public until May 15 2015. I’ve posted the 2023 reports here and here.

From: “Kelly Bosch (UO Foundation Accounting Department)” <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: IRS 990 request [Request updated: #80355]
Date: July 9, 2024 at 7:51:58 AM PDT
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Papers I wish I’d written:

The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India

  • Eyal Frank
  • Anant Sudarshan
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (FORTHCOMING)

A letter from UO Law Professor Ofer Raban on the Administration’s agreement with the UO Palestine group

To the Law Faculty, the UO President, and the General Counsel, posted by request of Professor Raban: On May 23, UO President Karl Scholz announced that the university has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with UO Palestine—a coalition of four student organizations that demonstrated on campus for almost a month. The agreement includes, among…

UO Board chair Steve Holwerda excited to hear a speaker demand that his Board do something that they can actually do

Peace in the Middle East is so hard they give out Nobel peace prizes for participation. In comparison getting UO faculty pay back on the path to average just requires that President Scholz make the easy call to fire a few AVP’s and Ass Deans of this-and-that to cut administrative bloat back to its pre-covid level.

Here Math Prof Chris Sinclair explains to the UO Trustees why he thinks the faculty will strike if the Board and President Scholz continue to blow us off. Click the image for video: