9/24/2011: This graph from UO’s latest report to OUS on our “academic plan” certainly raises the question. See this earlier post for background. Since 2001 undergraduate enrollment has increased 36%, graduate enrollment by less than 10%, and the number of tenure track faculty by less than 10%. Here’s the…
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9/28/2011: Today in the the Chronicle: In all, the NCAA took in $741-million in the 2009-10 fiscal year, up from $706-million the previous fiscal year. As a nonprofit organization, the NCAA is not required to pay taxes on its revenues. Their job is riding shotgun on the gravy train for…
9/26/2011: Let’s just say the irony of this email invitation is not lost on those classified staff who have worked with Vice President Dyke: An Invitation to Two Focus Groups for Classified Employees: RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE: HOW ARE WE DOING? The University of Oregon distributes a memo to the Campus Community…
9/26/2011: Two recent opinion pieces in the Oregonian. Both with praise for UO’s ambitions and the importance of that ambition for the state. Steve Duin – not exactly a patsy for UO’s public relations department in the past: What’s not to like about the university’s ambition, in a state where…
9/24/2011: Word down at the faculty club is that one of Interim Provost Lorraine Davis’s first acts was to offer her longtime friend Frances Dyke a job as her special assistant – so she’ll stay on even after we get a real CFO. This is exactly what worried everyone about…
9/24/2011: Breneman is an economist at the UVA Ed school, I think Pernsteiner hired him to consult on the OUS alternative to Lariviere’s new partnership. Or maybe UO hired him to consult on the new partnership. Lariviere wants a UO board, and SB 242 allows one, but Pernsteiner doesn’t want…
9/24/2011: Roundup of recent developments in Gov Kitzhaber’s reorganization of Oregon Education. Worth reading it all, from Bill Graves in the Oregonian: Gov. John Kitzhaber recently appointed the powerful Oregon Education Investment Board, which he will chair and which will control the budget for education in Oregon from preschool through…
9/23/2011: OK, OK, you can keep the croissants and the maid service. Just put down the knife, pick up the pen, and sign your golden parachute retirement contract. (click for video).
9/23/2011: Full doc is here.
9/22/2010: From Don Kahle in the RG: Indeed, “student-athlete” is a term invented by the NCAA to save its member universities from the workers’ compensation expenses that federal law mandates for all employees. Football in particular is hazardous work, so universities understandably resist categorizing participation in intercollegiate sports as “work.”…
9/22/2011: From student reporter Thomas Bradley at Ohio State: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Ohio ordered the university to submit unredacted documents that are the subject of a lawsuit ESPN Inc., filed against OSU on July 11. ESPN sued OSU for withholding records that the sports network viewed as…
9/22/2011: From Jeff Mapes in the Oregonian: Oregon legislators are learning that the already battered state budget is taking another $42 million hit because Gov. John Kitzhaber’s settlement with state labor unions came in over the limit he had initially set on pay increases. The additional cost of the union…
9/22/2011: We’ve written before about how UO General Counsel Randy Geller has hired longtime NCAA insider Michael Glazier for $150,000 to clean up the Willie Lyles mess – or at least sweep it under the rug, save Kelly’s job, and avoid paying Lyles the last $25,000 he was apparently promised.…
9/22/2011: His math makes no sense, but we appreciate the sentiment. Op-Ed here: The OUS has identified eight comparator universities against which to evaluate the UO, ranging from the University of California at Santa Barbara to the University of Michigan. Based on that scale, UO salaries for tenured faculty in…
9/22/2011: Long time readers know that frustrations with getting public records from UO were one of the reasons I started this blog. We’ve made some progress with public records here at UO in the last week. The UO website now mentions a $200 fee waiver for public interest requests. This…