Full report here. UO’s student government has already voted to repurpose the current fee for student housing assistance etc. They’ve also refused to accept President Schill’s proposal to retroactively charge the students $1M for games that never happened. UO’s Tuition Fee and Advisory Board – normally a rubber-stamp group for…
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From the Chronicle of Philanthropy, here. More in the Portland Business Journal here. No details on how UO plans to spend the money, other than part will go to Knight Campus. Presumably some is to fund Provost Phillips’ new Sports and Wellness initiative.
Like many economists, I’m a bit of secret fan of former University of Chicago economics professor Milton Friedman and his “Free to Choose” book – and opposed to making our students subsidize big-time sports and coaches salaries. Googling around, I find plenty of universities that give students the option of…
Not really. He credits the UO administration, for doing a good job communicating about academic strengths. OPB here: “This is an exciting milestone for us,” said Roger Thompson, UO’s vice president for student services and enrollment management, “to move from where we were 10 years ago with 18,000 applications all…
https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Commissioner-blames-UO-for-stagnant-county-risk-level-restrictions-573759421.html LANE COUNTY, Ore. — Lane County Commissioner Jay Bozievich is blaming University of Oregon-related coronavirus cases for preventing the county from moving down a risk level. On Tuesday, Gov. Kate Brown announced that Lane County would remain in the extreme risk category, impacting the capacities of businesses countywide and…
From Pres Schill’s letter: “He brought our branding and marketing efforts back in house.” That he did. As for During his tenure, communications helped to increase transparency and understanding of the university’s priorities and efforts through the creation of the platforms focused on tuition setting, student success, Title IX, budget…
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/08/national/joe-biden-tokyo-olympics-science/ Speaking on the Westwood One radio show during a halftime interview at Super Bowl LV, Biden told host Jim Gray that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga was “working very hard to be in a position to be able to safely open the games and have the games, and I think…
Ms Muenzer came to UO as Chief of Staff to Interim Pres Scott Coltrane – in the aftermath of Pres Gottfredson’s brief, disastrous, and expensive presidency – and is experienced at the sort of swamp-draining that the Department of Education will need after Trump. I don’t know who will replace…
Just kidding, that was the plan from UO’s 2001-4 Athletics Task Force, which included UO Pres Dave Frohnmayer, AD Bill Moos (soon fired by Phil Knight) and UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz. At the time the Duck Athletics budget was ~$37M, it’s now $127M, and there is no sign current…
2/2/2021: No details on the deal til 4PM today. Maybe some wealthy UO donor finally decided to start paying for the students, like he pays for the coaches raises? While UO’s students pay the Ducks $1.7M a year for “free” tickets, at Maryland the athletic department pays the students to…
Also news about the latest largess from the Feds, and something about selling more bonds to pay for another expansion of the Athletic Village across from The Phildo and some other dorm renovations. No public comments will be heard. Meeting of the Board of Trustees February 2, 2021 | 1:30…
Maybe the $278,168 Pres Schill is paying his VP for Strategic Communications Kyle Henley just isn’t enough to induce him to provide his best work? Or maybe his best work is just not very good. UO’s efforts to help Eugene seem almost as impressive as UC-Davis’s. But while Henley can’t…
1/29/2021: For the week ending yesterday there were 406 reported positive tests in Lane County, 178 of which were UO students or employees. As shown below, Lane county cases that are not linked to UO are decreasing, while UO cases are increasing: Note that UO has a more rigorous testing…
Reporter Chelsea Pitarresi has the very well-reported story with interesting interviews in Ethos, the Daily Emerald’s forum for long-form reporting. I’m not going to post a snippet as it’s all worth reading, here.