Discounts for the faculty? You know that had to hurt. They’re cheaper on stubhub, but it’s the thought that counts. The JH administrators get in free of course. Well, free to them. The academic budget gives athletics $375K for 80 seats, part of the secret Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal. 9/5/2012. Dear University of…
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Brad Wolverton and Andrea Fuller have an excellent piece in the Chronicle on “Who’s in charge of sports” discussing how little explicit control university president’s contracts give them over athletics. Gottfredson’s contract, here, does not mention athletics. The story also notes this: The contract of Lou Anna K. Simon, president…
We had a post a while ago about how the Ducks were auctioning off football game jerseys to cover their mounting deficits. LaMike was not amused. But now it’s used women’s soccer team shorts – complete with certificate of authenticity. Surely there’s a classier way to pay for the UO administration’s family…
in an effort to reduce subsidies from the academic side: Current athletic director Troy Dannen took over the battle in the spring of 2008, and just a year after landing the job, Dannen had to make the difficult decision to eliminate the baseball program. At the time, the university was…
From the Statesman Journal.
per week, last 52 weeks. The spikes are the Lariviere firing and Gottfredson hiring. The most popular recent document downloads are Randy Geller’s resume and Robin Holmes’s EMU election plan. 9/4/2012.
From a very good piece by Hannah Hoffman in the Statesman Journal (She also had a recent story on PERS, and is now running the excellent “State Worker’s Blog“). The boom is consistent with enrollment growth. So, how much of the hiring is new faculty? You could ask our clueless provost…
declares he will not support Autzen Stadium expansion or new football offices unless boosters can show they will also give to the academic side. Register Guard story here. Wait, never mind, that was President Paul Olum in 1985. Thanks to the interesting Benzduck site for the history. 9/2/2012.
If so he’ll do it from the “Presidential Skybox”, which costs UO’s academic side $375,000 a year. We pay the jocks because Dave Frohnmayer put his signature to this secret deal two weeks before he stepped down as UO President: … This was after Kilkenny had contributed some serious money to Frohnmayer’s…
The Ducks may be a money loser for UO’s academic side, but they’ve been a gold mine for ambitious area sportswriters. A few years back ODE reporter Ryan Knutson turned his exposes of Kilkenny’s Matt Court arena financing scheme into an associate producer job at Frontline. Last week George Schroeder…
8/31/2012. KATU News requested the documents in May, Dan Tilkin and John Tierney have the story. Jake Zivin of KEZI also gives a peek. It’s another of UO General Counsel Randy Geller’s hack jobs, not much meat: The full dump is here. I’d be very surprised if all Randy’s redactions are legal under…
9/1/2012: Ed O’Bannon has expanded the class action lawsuit against the NCAA, seeking a cut of the profits for the players. SI story: The rationale of O’Bannon to seek an expansion of his class derives from what he and his attorneys, Jon King and Michael Hausfeld, have learned from the…
According to an NBER working paper: In The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (NBER Working Paper No. 18075), Michael Lovenheim and Lockwood Reynolds find that a $10,000 increase in a family’s housing wealth in the four years before they send a child off…
From McClean’s, via Insidehighered: Barry said he offers student dancers around $1,700 each semester for tuition, but in exchange, they must maintain a B average in school.
To: University of Oregon Senate From: Robert Kyr, President RE: Looking Ahead In four weeks, we will begin a new academic year that promises to be one of the most significant in the history of our university. I am writing to give you a brief overview of some of our…