5/20/2012: From Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian. I’m no finance professor, but there seems to be a lot of long-run downside risk here for the state – and not much for the investment advisors, who take their fees and bonuses off the top.
UO Matters
5/19/2012: Bob Berdahl’s threats to veto faculty votes on who will chair our committees are getting more strident. And the administration has been setting up its own committees on important issues like policing, without even consulting the senate. But FWIW the senate and committee election results are now posted here.…
5/18/2012: VPSA Robin Holmes was one of three finalists for the VPSA job at Virginia Tech. She withdrew before the campus visits, apparently in return for a raise from $193,128 to $233,000 as of May 1, 2012. If rumor is correct she also got all expense paid trips to the…
Update: Archived video of the meeting is now available, here. It cuts off before the public records debate, meaning we have no public record of Hubin and Berdahl’s rationale for subverting UO’s public records process. Peter Keyes’s clear presentation about the union is there though, along with Berdahl’s rant. 5/10/2012:…
5/18/2012: Looks like a shotgun wedding, by the Honorable Judge Michael Hogan: Yes, of course I feel dirty for having posted this, you’re welcome. My guess is UO pays some competent lawyer $200,000 and Ms Emeldi another $200,000 to clean it all up. The full “amicus brief” is here.
5/18/2012: Libby Nelson of Insidehighered.com has a much better piece than the crap the NYT has been pushing on this issue.
5/17/2012. But instead we have a baseball team like they do, thanks to Pat Kilkenny and his tool Dave Frohnmayer. It costs us about $5 million a year. Yes, UO had to borrow money to build his PK park, using future TV revenue as collateral. What a stupid waste. Ask…
5/17/2012: This was Lariviere’s first mistake. Jim Bean as chair – Bellotti, Grier, Martinez! A few months later Jim Bean had managed to move from interim to permanent provost without any search or campus discussion. With Bean’s advice Lariviere kept on Grier and Dyke, and then he hired people like…
5/17/2012: From Jack Bogdanski: There ought to be a law that no press releases can be written by government flacks until government is current in filling public records requests. This would put quite a crimp in the output of the Duck’s press office.
5/17/2012: For better or worse, we’ll have one soon. What should her top 5 priorities be?
5/17/2012: That’s the explanation the SacBee gives for the lucrative UO trade in CA students. Complete with Roger Thompson quote. Not a popular argument with the UO central administration, which loves spending that out-of-state tuition money on sports and on their own junkets to bowl games (link fixed) – and…
I mistakenly deleted all comments to UO Matters from 5/12 or so til now. I’m very sorry, there were some good ones too! I tried to recover them, but can’t. I really appreciate comments and the discussions that often develop. They make the blog much more interesting and I hope…
5/15/2012: The IRS makes non-profits submit “990” forms annually, to show what public good they’ve been doing with that money they are not paying taxes on. The OSU Foundation turned in theirs 6 months ago. CEO J. Michael Goodwin pulled down $414,792 in total compensation. The top 5 employees take…
5/14/2012: The average debt for a student graduating with a bachelor’s is about the same as the loan for a new car, and the average return is considerable larger. A lot of graduates have to get an installment loan online to help them pay back what they owe, but it’s…
5/14/2012: Voting for UO Senate etc. closes tomorrow TODAY, log onto duckweb to vote. Oh yeah, state ballots too.