7/25/2011: Word from the SEIU union is that the state DAS has agreed on a contract, but the OUS locals are still negotiating with Chancellor Pernsteiner’s bargaining team on the OUS details. Staff making $25,000 a year will now have to pay 5% of their health insurance. The furloughs continue.…
UO Matters
7/25/2011: I’ve written before about the perverse “Directors Cup” incentives in the contract UO wrote for AD Rob Mullens last year. This is an NCAA competition between athletic directors for the most successful overall athletic program. UO ranked 30th, and now the bill is due. I can see why Mr.…
7/24/2011: This well researched ODE article by Thomas Kyle-Milward brings back a few memories. But these days UO Matters seldom goes bottoms up, except for the occasional bag of bagels, and then only if it’s on the top. Back problems. Of course, I do check the Johnson Hall paper recycling…
7/24/2011: Ron Mullens and his Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffit brag about “zero-based budgeting” for the athletic department in today’s George Schroeder piece. Where did I last hear about zero-based budgeting? Oh, yeah, right. Jimmy Carter. Get real. The AD budget has grown 50%…
update: Thompson reports the state has reached a deal with SEIU, the UO staff union. 7/23/2011: Dennis Thompson of the SJ runs an excellent one. Today there is an angry debate between SEIU wokers on whether it is right for higher income worker to pay more for health insurance.
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…
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…