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UO “All In” on Paris climate accord – unless it means cutting back on Duck game travel or Track Championships

Great moments in greenwashing from Around the O, here: “Tackling climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time,” Schill said. “Solving this problem requires a massive coalition working at all levels of our nation and across the world. The University of Oregon is pleased to contribute to…

UO enrollment – the long run is bad and more bucks for Cristobal isn’t going to make a damn bit of a difference

From Knocking at College’s Door from WICHE, the higher ed research group with the best acronym ever. The total number of Oregon HS graduates will peak in 5 years. The number of Hispanic HS graduates has doubled in 11 years, but will also peak in 2026. As for UO’s strategy…

Oregon’s pot tax revenue soars with Covid – what will our legislature spend it on?

Report from Pete Danko in the Portland Business Journal. Gated, but here’s the gist. This is the *monthly* pot tax revenue: The Oregon State Economist has more here: It will take legislative action to move this windfall to the general fund. The session opens January 19th.

STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTING – PROVOST’S INTEGRATIVE SPORT AND WELLNESS INITIATIVE

From UO’s business opportunities website here: 1.1. Purpose of this AP. The University of Oregon’s Office of the Provost(University), is issuing this Alternative Procurement (AP) to procure strategic planning consultation services in support of the Provost’s Integrative Sport and Wellness Initiative as more specifically described in this solicitation. The University…

Gov Brown’s budget proposes increasing state funding for higher ed

12/3/ update: OSU’s version is here, UO’s almost identical take is below: From: Hans Bernard <[email protected]>Date: December 3, 2020 at 08:55:20 PSTTo: Hans Bernard <[email protected]>Subject:Governor’s Recommended Budget Campus colleagues, On Tuesday, Governor Kate Brown released her proposed budget for the 2021- 23 biennium.  The Governor recommends balancing the $25.6 Billion general and lottery fund budget…

UO Trustees meet Dec 3-4 at 8:30 AM, will not give Cristobal a raise or hear public comments

The meeting packets for these 2 days include an unprecedented level of detail on UO finances. I’ll be adding some snippets from them to the relevant selections below as the meetings progress, but in the meantime you can read the material for Dec 3 here and Dec 4 here. From…

Dana Altman promotes the assistant coach who helped him recruit alleged basketball rapists

The Oregonian has the story on Altman’s promotion yesterday of Tony Stubblefield here. The 2017 CBS Sports report on Stubblefield’s role recruiting Dominic ArtisDamyean Dotson and Brandon Austin is below the break. (Apparently Altman is crying because he lost a game, not over the alleged sexual assaults.)

Ducks vs. Cal Bears: Halftime Locker Zoom with Equity & Inclusion

To paraphrase the anonymous reader who forwarded this invite from our bloated and ineffective Division of Equity and Inclusion, “What the Fuck?” From: Division of Equity and Inclusion <[email protected]>Date: December 2, 2020Subject:Ducks vs. Cal Bears: Halftime Locker Zoom with DEIReply-To:[email protected]