6/3/2012: Bob Berdahl says UO can’t afford to give a few $200 fee waivers for public records requests anymore. And UO’s “self-supporting” athletics department can’t pay the $2 million a year that they are spending on athlete only Jock Box tutoring, so Jim Bean is taking it from the regular…
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6/3/2012: A quick and dirty search finds ~160 unclassified 0.49 FTE appointments – meaning people with a large UO commitment, but no UO health benefits. I don’t know what proportion are faculty, but it’s clearly significant, and this will likely be an important issue for the CBA.
Update 6/3/2012: I’m sort of slow on this, but I’m wondering if the OC can even make the decision to open up their meetings. It looks to me like United Academics is currently a branch of the AAUP/AFT, with no legal standing of its own. Here’s the signature for the…
6/2/2012: John Lombardi of InsideHigherEd gives the shocking details here. But what to make of the fact that Coach Kelly charged the Willie Lyles payoff to the “Books Publication & Other Ref.” account? And I wonder what players Otto Harrassowitz recruited to the Ducks? I’d look into it, but I…
Update: 6/1/2012: Colton Totland reports in the RG that OUS has figured out how to pay for Provost Bean’s beamer and sabbatical, and Pernsteiner’s mortgage too. Still no plan from UO to increase faculty hiring or build new classrooms. Pathetic. 5/30/2012: The ODE reports: The University will submit it’s proposal…
6/1/2012: Rejoice, faculty! It’s the first day of our glorious Provost Jim Bean’s return to Johnson Hall. I’d make a public records request for a copy of his contract, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay Bob Berdahl and Randy Geller a dime for it. (Though an anonymous…
5/31/2012 updates. The Volokh Conspiracy gives a round-up and some analysis. From Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle: A national federation of more than 200 Indian-American groups has joined two other prominent Indian organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to end race-conscious college admissions in a case involving the University…
Because that’s what’s wrong with Oregon education – not enough administrators. Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian. Never heard of this guy. Anyone? 5/29/2012: He’s an outsider with a reputation for shaking things up. Let’s give him a chance. Mostly positive editorial in Oregonian.
5/30/2012: Wishywashy, here.
5/29/2012: At the most recent UO Senate meeting President Rob Kyr announced that Pres Berdahl had asked him to appoint committees to address three issues: conflicts of interest, personal attacks, and leadership. Don’t get me started on the UO administration’s surplus of conflicts of interests and their shortage of leadership.…
5/28/2012: Back in November the RG editors criticized President Lariviere for the raises that brought down the Governor’s wrath, noting that fully 40% of the money was going to administrators: “Bad Politics, Good Policy: The UO invests its tuition money in (some) people” … The documents list “special equity raises”…
5/28/2012: This suit may shed some interesting light on how Lane DA Alex Gardner deals with public records petitions, since SB242 gave him authority over UO public records. The requests in this story seem loosely related to Handy and Sorenson’s violation of the public meetings law and they look very…
Old news, nothing big, just posting this so I can find it later: From: “Thornton, Lisa” Subject: Public Records Request 2012-PRR-253Date: May 21, 2012 12:02:31 PM PDT 05/21/2012Dear [UO Matters] –Thank you for your patience regarding this request. It has been determined that bargaining unit members will first need to contact…