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…
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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:…
10/21/2011: From Brad Wolverton in the Chronicle. The proposed reforms give players $2,000 each in “travel money” but they then cut the number of scholarships – leaving the total take for “student-athletes” unchanged. So where will all the money from the new conference TV deals go? To the coaches, ADs,…
10/20/2011: It really didn’t end well last time, but one of them could easily end up advising UO on legal matters again – a side effect of SB 242, which puts part of UO’s legal services up for bid. The RFP closed September 11. On 8/25 UO’s former General Counsel…
10/20/2011: From Tamar Lewin in today’s times, story here: “This case presents the increasingly familiar tale of a public university that, embarrassed by its own wrongdoing, cries ‘student privacy’ in an attempt to frustrate public disclosure of information reflecting unflatteringly on the conduct of the university’s administrators,” the brief said.…
10/20/2011: VPFA Frances Dyke told the UO faculty, students, OUS – and perhaps also State Senator Floyd Prozanski and the state legislature – that conversion of DPS to a sworn, potentially armed UO campus police force was only going to cost $76,000. She told the ODE it might save $73,000.…
10/20/2011: Institutional Research reports that last year the UO Foundation spent ~$6 million on Academic, merit, and need scholarships. Puts that $3.2 million overhead subsidy for athletics into perspective. Oh yeah, the Foundation spent almost $9 million on athletic scholarships. And of course the athletic department spent $2 million of…
10/19/2011: I’m still getting the runaround on how the athletic department’s overhead assessment got cut from 8% to 3%. Jamie Moffitt, Frances Dyke, Brad Shelton, and Laura Hubbard are all claiming they have no documentation on what was supposed to be an “Auditable” process. Actually, Moffitt is being a little…
Sorry for the late posting: To: UO Deans and Directors From: Robert Kyr President, University Senate Re: First Provost’s ForumThis Wednesday, October 19, 20114:00-6:00 pm, Beall Concert HallUniversity of Oregon School of Music & Dance (Please see the map attached.) As President as the University Senate, I am writing to…
10/18/2011: Big news politically. Cites health concerns. I hope he will make part of his political legacy for his last year a toughening up on his interpretation of Oregon public records law. More here.
10/18/2011: I’m tired of this too, but there’s big money at stake: About $3.2 million a year. More than the $2.8 million faculty raises will cost, more than the $2.4 million Frances Dyke spent remodeling Johnson Hall, more than the $2 million we spend on the Jock Box, more than…
10/17/2011: (revised) Two weeks ago we wrote how Duck athletics pays just half what other UO units pay towards UO’s administrative costs. How did this happen? In late 2007 a UO task force chaired by AVP Laura Hubbard recommended all “Auxiliary” units (a term which is explicitly defined to include…
10/15/2011: The ad for a replacement for Jamie Moffitt’s ESAADFAA job is already posted. Funny title. Looks like they’ve hired Parker Search, the same firm that brought us Rob Mullens, for $75,000.
10/15/2011: Dennis Richardson, probably the most conservative, balanced budget, family values representative in the state legislature, speaks out on federal meddling in Oregon’s largest agricultural success story: During a tour Thursday of a medical marijuana farm outside Jacksonville, Republican Rep. Dennis Richardson said some growers are abusing Oregon’s medical marijuana…