10/14/2011: De gustibus non est disputandum. Or so the Nobel Prize winning economists say. But the rest of us might wonder why the UO development office didn’t try, or couldn’t succeed, at redirecting this generous couple’s tax deductible gift toward some purpose more important than a concert hall that will…
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10/14/2011: From an editorial in the Corvallis paper: Corvallis Gazette-Times, Oct. 11, on raises for university faculty: Say what you will about University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere – and the man has picked up something of a maverick label during his term at the Eugene campus – he might…
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10/14/2011: A New York Times article explains how competitive Indian universities have become, and how more students are coming to the US, instead of the UK. These are top students and it would be good networking for our Oregon students. Indian enrollment is still very low here. President Lariviere is…
in Wisconsin, that is. Here in Oregon this would just be normal everyday corrupt cronyism. Scams like this have been a part of the standard retirement packages for top administrators ever since Dave Frohnmayer wrote special deals for Dan Williams, Lorraine Davis, and John Moseley. We’ve spent millions of student…
10/13/2011: VP Robin Holmes and the UO administration want to renovate the EMU. Great. But they want to do it to suit their own tastes, not those of the student’s. Well. OK, they are paying for it, they get to choose. Except they are not – they want the students…
10/13/2011: Dream job at UO. Reality check: after ~8 years of grad school, starting salary will be about $60,000.
10/13/2011: The administrative cleanup continues. From new VP for Research Kim Espy: Professors Stormshak and Phillips join the Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education Patrick Phillips, Professor and Department Head of Biology, joins the RIGE team as Associate Vice President for Research. Patrick, a member of the Institute for…
10/13/2011: From Kara Hansen Murphey in the Lake Oswego Review. The blogger posted some information about a doctor’s disciplinary records and her opinion. He sued her for $1 million in damages. She went to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, got some advice and an attorney and filed an “anti-SLAPP” suit against the…
10/12/2011: From Harry Esteve in the Oregonian. Bojack has one interesting explanation.
10/11/2011: Currently the DOJ handles litigation and many other matters for UO and the OUS system. SB 242 devolves responsibility that to OUS and the universities. UO General Counsel Randy Geller wants to subcontract a chunk of this work out. His request for proposals was augmented by an amendment from…
10/11/2011: That’s the word from Greg Bolt’s RG article today. Seems more than a bit high for an internal hire with no direct experience in the job. Plus we’ll have to keep paying Dyke to job shadow for 6 months. The Chronicle database reports the median salary for CFO’s at…
10/10/2011: So did the DOJ. Bojack.org has the story. Meanwhile Bill Graves tries to dig up some quotes complaining about the UO raises, from PSU and other OUS professors. He can’t find much, but the online comments are interesting – many support the UO raises. The Croissant Chancellor’s lowest common…
10/11/2011: I didn’t think so. The low point for UO was the April 2009 “Furlough Town Hall” where President Dave Frohnmayer, Provost Jim Bean, General Counsel Melinda Grier, and VPFA Frances Dyke tried to trick the faculty into agreeing to 5% pay reductions. Frohnmayer had just taken a $100,000 raise…
has it that Jamie Moffitt, currently Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration, will replace Frances Dyke as (interim) UO Vice President for Finance and Obfuscation, effective soon 1/1/2012. Now verified, with an email from President Lariviere: Colleagues, I am announcing the reassignment of Jamie Moffitt as the…