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 Matters
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.
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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 PDTTo: Bill Harbaugh <[email protected]>Reply-To: UO Foundation Accounting Department <[email protected]>##- Please type your reply above this line -##Your request (80355) has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email.
Jul 9, 2024, 07:51 PDT
An endowment to provide free tuition to most Johns Hopkins medical students and all costs for many, presumably in perpetuity. In the WSJ here.
The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (FORTHCOMING)
Abstract
Scientific evidence has documented that we are undergoing a mass extinction of species, caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to scarce evidence on damages from losing individual species. This paper studies the collapse of vultures in India, triggered by the expiry of a patent on a painkiller. Our results suggest the functional extinction of vultures—efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from the environment—increased human mortality by over 4% because of a large negative shock to sanitation. We quantify damages at $69.4 billion per year. These results suggest high returns to conserving keystone species such as vultures.
As of 10:20PM on 7/2, from https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination. Interestingly this is not affecting the odds of a Trump win (~60%).
Have Jamie Moffitt and Brian Fox found the money to pay the faculty like they pay JH administrators? Will the union demand $130K research and alcohol budgets for faculty too? How late will the administration team be this time? Show up and find out. From the faculty union: BargainingJoin us…
That would of course be Oregon State, for Assistant and Associate Profs. UO’s Fulls are still slightly ahead. The last time I looked, about 10 years ago, UO salaries were about 5% above OSU’s. Obviously the mix of disciplines is different, but I’d have expected UO’s shift away from liberal…
Faculty turnout was about 60 on zoom and another 60 in the room, plus some overflow in the hall. Pretty good, considering we’re a long way from ramping up the pressure. The Admin team showed up 15 minutes late then drug a 15-minute break out for 35 minutes. I’d expected…
He wouldn’t send me his contract but eventually Kevin Reed’s Public Records Office complied with the law and provided it: 2024-PRR-471 … …
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…
Pres Karl Scholz contract 2023
And if the President job doesn’t work out, he’s got a fall-back guarantee of a sweet job as an Econ Professor – with no responsibilities for the first year:
6/6/2024 – Still no documents:
Request:
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:
Good morning,
Please find the attached fiscal year ended 2023 Federal 990 tax returns for the UO Foundation and the UO Foundation Supporting Organization.
Thank you,
Kelly
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