7/23/2011: Thanks to a commenter for the link to the Kennedy mansion purchase, in the WaPo. Nice, but it’s not quite President Bongo’s pied-a-terre in Paris. The Gabon / Oregon proposal is here. (Sorry, I got this last week from Ms Denecke – and then forgot to post it.) “Twin…
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7/22/2011: Apparently it’s his willingness to take on a player with a domestic violence conviction and an urgent need to find a school on the quarter system that will not ask him to red-shirt for a year while working on his anger management issues. Let’s play some basketball! It’s not…
7/22/1011: Or at least he emailed the UO Foundation board, and other boosters. Ron Bellamy has the story: “The firm has been charged with making an independent assessment of the football program’s use of outside recruiting services,” Mullens wrote. “In addition, they have been asked to provide the University with…
7/22/2011: That’s the question a former Board of Regents president is asking, in Iowa: All university revenue should come into one pot, and every department should have to justify its spending. The University of Iowa takes in $66 million in athletic revenue, but that doesn’t mean the department should have…
7/22/2011: From Dennis Thompson’s excellent coverage in the SJ: -Participants in the HEM will have to undergo health screenings to detect potential chronic diseases. In the first year, the screening will involve a simple self-reported waist measurement. Screenings in future years could involve blood work, blood pressure testing and other…
The 2009 IRS 990 form showing the 8 JSTOR execs making over $250,000 each, is here. The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.
Higher education is a competitive business. And as this article reports, UO simply is not keeping up. We need to hire a search firm, get a VP quick, gut the basement of Johnson Hall, and start installing the proper equipment without further delays. Perhaps an alumnus would be a good…
Update: Rachel Bachman has more on the why. Predicts Jamie Moffitt will get promoted. 7/21/2011: From Adam Jude in the RG. Ms Baumgartner was Kilkenny’s hatchet woman when it came to cutting wrestling, she’s now giving up her $156,814 job at UO for Syracuse. My guess is that AD Rob…
Update 7/21/2011: Nesbitt has not been a big fan of the New Partnership. From his Oregonian Op-Ed in March: So if I were calling political plays for UO, I’d give up on any strategy that requires state borrowing and signal the coaches to do the following: Go for two. Offer…
7/21/2011: UO General Counsel Randy Geller has been trying to find an Associate/Assistant GC for a year now. No takers. He’s getting desperate with this latest job posting from today: The Office of the General Counsel is a fast-paced, high volume work place. Its attorneys must be able to handle…
7/20/2011: When UO President Dave Frohnmayer retired he negotiated a very sweet retirement deal with OUS Chancellor George Pernsteiner. Too sweet. A week after someone raised questions about the unusual salary Frohnmayer received last summer – no work expectations and 3 retroactive contracts – Frohnmayer had to write UO out…
In terms of what UO can contribute, long-run, to Oregon’s economic growth, bringing smart ambitious undergrads from other countries with growing economies (and from other parts of the US) to Oregon is surely #1 on the list. Plus we get their out-of-state tuition and the diversity spillover for our Oregon…
7/19/2011: The usual stuff. But with sports: The coach said Salinas told him he would direct players from his summer league squad to the coach’s university if the coach would invest $100,000 with him. … ” A good guy — there’s no doubt about that – and he helped a…
7/18/2011: And I ain’t talking about the carpets in PLC. Contract and invoices here. $8,359.12 last month, including a trip to Eugene – looks like a last minute airfare purchase. UO GC Randy Geller contracted with these guys for $150,000 – and he is now trying to charge the faculty…
7/17/2011: Maybe the UO staff won’t need to strike at the start of fall quarter. From Dennis Thompson in the Statesman Journal: Kitzhaber has demanded that state employees pay 5 percent of their health care premiums as part of the new contract for the 2011-13 biennium. The unions appear to…