6/23/2012: From back in fall 2009. The first part is the usual Oregon higher ed is in trouble stuff. The second part is considerably more aggressive regarding the rights of independent university boards than anything I’ve seen lately from OUS or anyone else. Pdf here, 2009 RG story here. The…
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6/23/2012: From Camilla Mortenson: Currently the county manual says “fees shall be calculated to reimburse the county for actual costs in making records or information available.” Those fees include the full cost of the staff position providing the information plus 2.5 percent “to cover costs associated with building, maintenance, utilities,…
6/22/2012: Insidehighered is keeping a close watch on developments at UVa, here. Looks like the board may cave to intense faculty pressure and reappoint President Sullivan. The last graph makes clear how rare faculty input into independent boards is: Presidents have to make controversial decisions that can alienate campus constituencies.…
Update: Wondering how DPS managed to increase spending from $2.8 million in 2010 to $4.0 million in 2012? Financial Transparency reports here. A few days ago the RG had a story on the $2.8 million budget for security at the Olympic trials, $500,000 of which came from an emergency state…
for the next few weeks. 6/20/2012.
9/19/2012: Another sensible faculty led initiative, from Inside Oregon: Lininger and fellow UO professors Jane Cramer (political science), Chris Doe (biology) and Neil Bania and Laura Leete (planning, public policy and management) saw that local students were losing many opportunities for AP coursework. They also sensed an opportunity to make…
at the shoulder if a college athlete tried this. From George Schroeder in the RG. 6/18/2012.
6/18/2012: Robert Samuelson had a recent column, “‘College for all’ mindset compounds problem“, arguing that the US probably has enough college graduates, or close to it. But are the right students going to college? High math ability students from low income families have less than half the chance of attending…
6/19/2012: The NYT reports on Dragas’s firing of UVA Pres: The board’s united front showed its first serious cracks, as four of the 15 voting members sent an emissary on Sunday night to the president, Teresa Sullivan, to discuss the terms on which she would stay, according to people briefed…
6/17/2012: If I was an economist I could give a whole lecture – hell, a whole course – on Nixon’s great achievements: Replaced the random enslavement of the draft with a paid, professional military. Established the EPA Got us off the gold standard Created the Earned Income Tax Credit Signed…
6/16/2012: Diane Dietz of the RG on Gottfredson: Lots of info and many quotes, sounds like a solid guy. He starts Aug 1, which means Berdahl gets to approve the July round of contracts for the Johnson Hall crew. It will be interesting to see how many “special assistant” jobs…
“I was really impressed that he could be a leader not only for the University of Oregon but for our whole state, because frankly our state needs a leader like him to advocate not only for the University of Oregon, not only for the state but for all of our…
6/15/2012 update: I’m no legal ethics professor, but this doesn’t look good for Frohnmayer: The full letter is here. The Bar’s disciplinary counsel has given Frohnmayer and Gary until 6/21 to respond. The Bend Bulletin reports that the county has spent about $100,000 on the matter so far, presumably much…
6/15/2012: Harry Esteve has the story, and a request in the online comments for help from readers with more information.
6/15/2012: From the Chronicle: A Missed Opportunity? In his original proposal for the study, back in 2009, the then-president of the Association of American Universities, Robert M. Berdahl, said he’d like an evaluation of whether the country might simply have too many universities competing for its federal research dollars. ……