Rob Mullens and his pals in the AD roll the students for $2 million a year to pay for the athlete-only Jock Box tutoring, $1.5 million for secret overhead subsidies, and even $75,000 for Chip Kelly’s lawyer. But now they’re going to give away $25,000 in free student tickets to…
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3/11/2012: Andy Stahl is running against Pete Sorensen for South Eugene Lane County commissioner. It’s district 3 – yes, even if you live in Eugene you vote for a county commissioner. The election is May15th, ballots are mailed out in about 6 weeks. It’s a nonpartisan position, so no primary.…
3/11/2012: Whole letter here, well worth reading: In the worst instances, universities with local boards meander toward excellence, if they are lucky. They often must accommodate the tastes of local board members while trying to execute longer term plans. My experience with a local board and with the NCAA leads…
and their higher education reporter Bill Graves. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Graves to write something on George Pernsteiner’s perks or top 5 PERS beneficiary Dave Frohnmayer. His hatchet is for people like Lariviere and Berdahl who dare to disturb Oregon’s insider politics. I am not defending PERS tier…
Word down at the faculty club is that the union now has more than the needed cards – 50% of the TTFs, NTTFs, and ORs – and plans to turn them in to the state ERB next friday. The number of tenure track faculty is considerably lower than they had…
Roughly two-thirds of presidents over all said they believed the past year’s scandals had “hurt the reputation of all higher education, not just the institutions involved,” and an overwhelming majority (86.9 percent) said they did not believe that the presidents of institutions with big-time sports programs were “in control” of…
March 2013: ODE reporter Sam Stites gets UO General Counsel Randy Geller to explain why he thinks the academic side should be happy to pay half the cost of Chip Kelly’s lawyer. Because he usually makes them pay it all: Lawyer Michael Glazier, a former NCAA enforcement staffer, has been providing…
but I kept silent, because I did not own a gun. Then they came for the cell phones … OK, maybe that is a little over the top even for UO Matters. But it’s motivated by an interesting ODE Becky Metrick story about a fist-fight on campus, and what may…
3/7/2012: Just 3 months after he and Matt Donegan fired Lariviere, Pernsteiner now has a job ad posted in the Chronicle. Short version: a) Pernsteiner lets UO keep claim to be flagship AAU and the UO Foundation agrees not to purse public meetings and state audit complaints against him. (Sorry…
NCAA rules say: In order to complete the certification process before the moratorium, the institution finished a self-study led by an institution’s president or chancellor. In addition, institutions completed a review of these primary components: governance and commitment to rules compliance; academic integrity; gender/diversity issues and student-athlete well-being. Each member…
First this, now this. And you thought I made this piracy stuff up.
3/6/2012: From the NY Fed: The outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion,1 surpassing the total credit card balance ($693 billion) and the total auto loan balance ($730 billion). With college enrollments increasing and the costs of attendance rising, this balance of student loan debt is expected…
NYT financial columnist Joe Nocera: … The N.C.A.A. likes to say it exists to “protect student-athletes,” but it’s a laughable claim. The N.C.A.A. exists to rationalize the tawdry fact that the labor force of a $6 billion business — the estimated revenue of college football and men’s basketball — receives…
3/5/2012: Jeffrey Martin of the Oregonian explains where Oregon is at in the NCAA infractions process. I love the way the NCAA infractions people dress up their efforts to preserve their hiring cartel and keep all the profits for the coaches and NCAA insiders with a bunch of legal terminology.…
3/5/2012: That’s the latest from Bill Graves at the Oregonian, buried at end of his gun story. More as we get the docs – and there’s some scandalous stuff here. The board also voted to extend Pernsteiner’s contract through June 30, 2014, but is still negotiating terms. Pernsteiner, who has…