with Lisa Peterson, a former colleague at Kentucky, appointing her to Rennee Baumgartner’s old job:
UO Matters
10/26/2011: An anonymous correspondent reports that VP Robin Holmes is closing the Office of Multicultural Academic Success and replacing it with something called CMAE, the Center for Multicultural Access and Excellence. They point readers toward uotruth.tumblr.com for more information and documents, and say that students, staff, and faculty are organizing…
10/26/2011: Reports are trickling out of LA that athletes have begun to rebel against the NCAA cartel. AP story here, Yahoo sports report here, WaPo story here says NCAA will ignore the players. National College Players Association report here: UCLA football player Jeff Locke, who circulated the petition among his…
10/25/2011: Word down at the faculty club is that Liz Denecke has moved, or perhaps been moved, from her position as UO Public Records Officer to a job at ORSA, managing contracts.
10/25/2011: Former UO journalism student Allie Grasgreen writes the best summary I’ve seen of the NCAA’s latest efforts to preserve its monopoly while claiming reform, for Insidehighered.com: From 2005 to 2009, athletics spending per athlete at Football Bowl Subdivision colleges grew by 50 percent, to $91,050 per individual, while academic…
10/24/2011: A bit more on the $2000 raise proposed for NCAA athletes, in the NYT story here: Personally, I can’t decide which quote is more offensive – Mark Emmert, who is probably pulling down $1.5 million as NCAA President, saying “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘Well, you want…
10/24/2011: The AAUP/AFT faculty union organizers have a nice new website, complete with endorsements from faculty. The are having a NTTF luncheon Wednesday. They also address the pay leveling concern head on, here. Add comments to this post here. The old union website used to link to UO Matters posts…
10/24/2011: We reported a few weeks ago about how the UO administration is making the academic side pay half of the cost of hiring Michael Glazier, a.k.a. “The Cleaner“, the $330 an hour attorney and former NCAA insider brought in to clean up Chip Kelly’s mess. I’ve added his latest…
10/24/2011: From the Oregon Commentator. I say yes, it’s about time.
10/23/2011: From the Oregonian: The Oregon City School District has decided to reject a $2.54 million federal grant meant to reward top educators, partly because of philosophical concerns over performance-based pay. The UO administration is a sad example of what happens when you divorce pay from performance. Just compare Frances…
10/23/2011: An Op-Ed in the RG. DeJarnette is a journalism major, a scholarship athlete on the track team, and a member of UO’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. He argues there are some legitimate concerns, but also some intransigent stereotypes which he attempts to clear up: I recently witnessed two classmates roaring…
10/23/2011: Very interesting RG story by Greg Bolt, on UO’s role in Lane County employment: Employment at the UO has grown across the board, with increases seen in nearly every job category. The university has more teachers, professors, administrators, clerical staff, laborers and technicians today than it did before the…
10/22/2011: Want to know how much the Oregon State University Foundation gets in donations for athletics? No problem, check page 16 of the the Council for Aid to Education’s “Voluntary Support of Education” survey for OSU, 2011: Want to know how much the UO Foundation gets? Too bad, they leave…
10/22/2011: The UO Foundation’s job is managing funds from UO donors, investing the UO endowment, and disbursing the funds to UO for scholarships, etc. They’ve just released their 31 page annual report, here. I’m no accounting professor, but people have earned tenure showing the correlation between glossy pictures in annual…
10/21/2011: It’s slightly more than a year since she was appointed as UO’s first Public Records Officer by President Lariviere, in what was billed as an effort to improve trust and transparency between the UO administration and the UO community and public after the Bellotti/Grier debacle. From the ODE article:…