9/15/2011: Liz Denecke of the UO Public Records Office has agreed to waive the first $200 in fees for “public interest” records requests. This will include requests from the press, and new media such as UO Matters. The new policy should be announced at their website here shortly and it…
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9/14/2011: And it’s a big lawn: I wonder if his gardener and housekeeper take furlough days – how would our Chancellor’s kid’s friends cope?
9/14/2011: Maybe UO needs a sworn armed police force. Maybe we don’t. Last year VP Frances Dyke and Chief Doug Tripp spent a lot of time destroying their credibility coming up with implausible reasons why we did – and telling us it would save UO $76,000 a year. Sure. The…
9/14/2011: Provost Jim Bean announced yesterday that his last official act would be the destruction of the much hated PLC office building – “brick by goddamn brick, if necessary”. Work began this morning: Celebrating profs down at the faculty club cheered the news that they would be housed in tents…
9/14/2011: A non-random sample says yes. They don’t buy Pernsteiner and Kenton’s call for “shared sacrifice”. Does anyone recall any previous staff strikes? This Greg Bolt story repeats the stories about UO raises, does not mention Lariviere’s overtime adjustments or the benefits and retroactive benefits the OUS bosses got. There’s…
9/13/2011: From Drexel University and the NCPA: Executive summary here, well worth reading it all. They compare what college players would earn in a competitive market, with what they earn under the NCAA hiring cartel: 5. Football players with the top 10 highest estimated fair market values are worth between…
9/13/2011: I’m no economist, but I hear one of them got a Nobel for proving that a perfect ranking system is impossible. US News must be familiar with Dr. Arrow’s work, because they don’t even bother to try and do it well. Still, I think this is a large improvement…
9/13/2011: The most common thing people say to me about this blog is some variant of “It’s a public service to UO, but do you have to be so rude?”. My usual reaction is some version of “I’m not rude. Rude is wasting ten people’s time in a pointless meeting,…
9/12/2011: Nominations are closed, voting is open and so are the comments. 9/9/2011: Provost Jim Bean announced yesterday he will step down for one year, for health related reasons. Greg Bolt story here. We wish our provost a speedy recovery. We will need an interim provost until he returns. I’m…
9/12/2011: of PSU VP Burton. He’ll end up with a slap on the wrist. The current Director, Ron Bersin, was hired for his remarkably incurious disposition. Too bad Pat Hearn is no longer in that job! Still, this has got to make Frohnmayer and Pernsteiner a little nervous.
9/12/2011: The local 503 has just released a whitepaper here. Some of the data is from the excellent Bunsis report on UO, here. They repeat the UO admin raise data, have some data on 2009-2010 raises at PSU, but nothing on OSU or OUS central. My read on this is…
9/12/2011: I won’t have a change to look through these for a bit, entire pdf here. One sample below. Kenton is following Pernsteiner‘s lead, billing OUS for every croissant he can. Read Steve Duin’s Oregonian post on Kenton’s new contract. Last year’s story on Pernsteiner here is just as damning.
9/12/2011: Online today at noon, hosted by the SJ, link here.
9/12/2011: We make them do it every quarter. It’s where the money for our salaries comes from. But when students start offering to pay other *students* for a seat in a course with an enrollment cap – well at Brown that’s apparently an honor code violation. It’s an economics class.…
9/11/2011: Originally the Oregonian just wanted the data on those getting more than $100,000 a year. PERS fought and lost, now everything will be public. Most new PERS retirees get modest amounts – 60% of salary, maybe $30,000. I think the release of this data will actually tone down the…